Two people who already know each other's worst days try to figure out whether friendship was ever the whole story in "It's Not Like That."
What is It's Not Like That about?
Lori has just come out of a divorce, and Malcolm, a minister, is recently widowed, and the two of them have been close for long enough that everyone around them, including their own teenagers, keeps asking the obvious question neither wants to answer directly. The series builds its comedy and drama out of that avoidance, following Lori and Malcolm through single life as adults who thought they understood their own relationship until other people started reading it differently. Rosemary Rodriguez and Brad Silberling direct a family-centered show that spends as much time with the teens around Lori and Malcolm as it does with the two leads, since the kids are often the ones pushing the question of romance that the adults keep sidestepping. Each episode runs a tidy fifty minutes and leans on everyday situations, co-parenting logistics, church life, awkward reintroductions to dating, rather than big twists, letting the will-they-won't-be dynamic simmer through ordinary scenes instead of forced confrontations. It's a show about two grieving-in-different-ways adults figuring out what their bond actually is once the people who used to define it, an ex-husband and a late spouse, are no longer in the picture.
About the cast
Tyner Rushing and J.R. Ramirez lead as Lori and Malcolm, with Cary Christopher, Michaela Russell, and Caleb Baumann playing the teens caught in the middle, and Scott Foley and Erinn Hayes rounding out the supporting cast.
Context & significance
Rosemary Rodriguez and Brad Silberling co-direct this 2026 American series, a family comedy-drama built around the newly single, recently widowed premise that has become a familiar shape for shows chasing an ensemble mix of adult romance and teenage commentary on it. The fifty-minute format gives it room for both threads without forcing either into the background.
Watching It's Not Like That on Ktime
"It's Not Like That" is on K-Time with Persian dub and Persian subtitles, part of a catalog built for Farsi-speaking households who want current American series without waiting on outside fan translations. A free K-Time account login unlocks streaming, while the show's page itself stays open to browse before signing in.