PARKED Episode 1: Hard Target by parkedtheshow Wow, it seems like only four years ago that I stood outside on my back porch after another insane night of bath time madness and hilarious bedtime buffoonery and took an exhausted breath, cracked open a beer and lit a smoke and wondered how anyone ever thought having a kid was normal, and why there wasn’t a show about all of this crazy shit that happens to you as a parent, as a dad…as a man. So I started writing one with a friend of mine, with no idea what to do with it or even if I would finish it. When Siobhan McCarthy, who had also just had a kid, heard through the grapevine that I was writing, she asked me to pitch it and she immediately offered to produce it. So it began. Well the show has changed a lot since those early scripts, it’s no longer called DADS, and it’s no longer just about being a dad. In fact, the show has grown, like our kids into something, I think more interesting. Something more palpable, because as we dove in to make this thing we realized the themes we wanted […]