Help! is the brainchild of  actress/writer/director Julie Ann Emery (pictured, bottom left) and is a relationship comedy in the style of Modern Family and The Office. It focuses on four struggling couples who need therapy. They get each other instead on a show that is basically group therapy without the therapist.

Emery has brought together a cast that includes Rodriguez, Kristen Shaw (Commander-in-Chief, The Last Castle), Alan Campbell (Tony Nominee-Sunset Blvd), Sean Mahon (39 Steps, The Seafarer), Blake Hammond (Hairspray, Billy Elliott), and Kevin Earley (Tale of Two Cities, Thoroughly Modern Millie) as well as, Jessica Rush (Gypsy) and Susan Ferrara (Peasant).I’m not yet sure who plays who but these are the couples:

Thom and Anna, Wall Street traders hit hard by the economy, but their firms missed the government bail-out. Now unemployed, they have the big screen TV, but no money to pay the cable bill;  Dan and Eric, an overweight life-of-the-party accountant, and his good-looking, still in  school nutritionist partner at odds over how to live out their lives together; Gerry and Terry: When Terryʼs business went under, Gerry went back to work and Terry became Mr. Mom to their 3 out of control kids. But this role swap is not going well; Kenny and Jenny, a charming but struggling Country Music songwriter who doesnʼt know heʼs struggling; and his young Type A wife who gave up her dreams to  pay the bills.

Each week, Emily (an under-employed shoe model) brings her cash-strapped friends  together without a Therapist to talk about their problems and give each other advice—to sometimes hilarious and sometimes heart-breaking results. (And sheʼs making a documentary of it all!) As Emily says, “Weʼre going to prove to people that you donʼt have to have money to get help.”

Catch a new episode each week at www.thenwegothelp.com

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