Grief, stubbornness and a garage full of half-finished classic cars set the stage for Shifting Gears, a 2025 American comedy series directed by John Pasquin. When a scattered family moves back in together, the real repair work turns out to have nothing to do with engines. Persian dubbing and subtitles are both available on K-Time.
What is Shifting Gears about?
Matt runs a classic car restoration shop and has spent years keeping his life, and his grief over his late wife, at arm's length. That routine breaks the moment his estranged daughter Riley shows up with her two teenage kids and nowhere else to go, and the household Matt built around silence and solitude suddenly has three more people in it. The series follows the friction of that reunion — old resentments that never got resolved, a father and daughter relearning how to talk to each other, and grandchildren who did not sign up for any of it — while treating the actual cars in the shop as the one place where fixing something still feels simple.
About the cast
Tim Allen leads as Matt, opposite Kat Dennings as Riley, with Seann William Scott, Daryl Mitchell, Maxwell Simkins and Barrett Margolis rounding out the shop and the household around them. The cast splits its time between the workshop's easy banter and the tighter, more personal scenes of a family relearning how to live under one roof, letting the comedy sit alongside the show's more sincere family material rather than crowding it out.
Context & significance
Shifting Gears is a traditional multi-camera comedy built around a restoration shop as much as a household, using the workbench and the garage as a recurring backdrop for the family story unfolding around it. Each episode runs about 22 minutes, a pace that keeps the show's jokes tight and its emotional beats brief rather than dwelling on them. Director John Pasquin leans on that structure to move quickly between shop-floor comedy and the quieter adjustment of three generations suddenly sharing one house.
Watching Shifting Gears on Ktime
Shifting Gears is available to stream on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so Farsi-speaking viewers can follow the show however they prefer. Reading about the series here costs nothing; watching it requires a K-Time account login, on a platform built with a Farsi-first interface for exactly this kind of everyday sitcom viewing.