This series was spun off from Party of Fivewhen 20-year-old Sarah Reeves (Jennifer Love Hewitt) left long-time beau Bailey Salinger (Scott Wolf) in the previous show and moved from San Francisco to New York, ostensibly searching for her birth father.
On Party of Five, adoptee Sarah went by her adoptive parents’ last name, Reeves. Now she took her dead biological mother’s last name, Merrin, and was desperate to find her father so she could “figure out who I am, where I came from and what it all means”.
Sarah inhabited a Manhattan East Village neighbourhood where she seemed to bump into attractive new friends without even trying and was soon swept up in new adventures and a hopeful sense of life’s potential for fateful serendipity.
Amongst her new friends was Romy (Jennifer Garner), a struggling young actress who gave Sarah a couch to crash on in Sarah’s mum’s old apartment in a building managed by eccentric, outspoken Cecilia Wiznarski (Pauley Perrette). JB (Diego Serrano) was the stud muffin neighbour who worked in a hair salon.
Sarah’s new potential love interest was an up-and-coming musician named Maguire (Johnathon Schaech), who ran the record store across the street.
The series was pulled in January 2000 after just ten episodes. After a long hiatus, the show returned for a second chance in June but lasted just two more episodes before Fox cancelled it due to low ratings (it attracted just 3% of viewers in the Nielsens).
Sarah Merrin (Reeves)
Jennifer Love Hewitt Romy Sullivan
Jennifer Garner Cecilia Wiznarski
Pauley Perrette Jocelyn House
Gina Ravera John Maguire
Johnathon Schaech Jesse “JB” Bayron
Diego Serrano Spencer Halloway
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Sarah inhabited a Manhattan East Village neighbourhood where she seemed to bump into attractive new friends without even trying and was soon swept up in new adventures and a hopeful sense of life’s potential for fateful serendipity.
