This is 21-year old Ricardo Hurtado, a perfect combination of face and physique. I would definitely be asking him out -- if I was 20 years younger (or more), if he was into guys, and if he met some basic standards of niceness.
The problem is, he hasn't had many tv or movie roles recently, so if I want to see him perform as an adult, it has to be GlichTechs (animated), Malibu Rescue: The Next Wave (ugh!), or Country Comfort (double ugh!).
Ok, the worst first: Country Comfort, which must mean something like "cold comfort." Nothing "country," either the music or the non-urban location, can possibly be good.
Sigh. Why can't I just look at a picture?
Scene 1: A rainy night in a small town. We pan past a church (had to throw religion in there, didn't you) to a middle class house.
There's a knock on the door. Tuck (Ricardo!) answers: it's Bailey (Katherine McPhee), a young woman with black hair wearing a black cowboy hat. He gawks at her gorgeousness and says "Looks like they sent the right woman to do the job." Did he call for a prostitute?
Bailey thinks so, and is about to bolt, when Tuck explains that he thought she was from the nanny agency. (He makes gross sexual come-ons to all of his nannies? And why does he need a nanny at age 21?)
No, she's not a nanny. Her truck broke down (it has to be a truck, doesn't it?), her phone died, and she wants to use theirs. But Tuck is so intent on having sex with her that introduces her to the other kids as the new nanny: two little girls, 12-year old Dylan, and Brody (Jamie Martin Mann, who is 17 and way too old for a nanny, unless, like Tuck, he expects to have sex with her).
While all three of the boys gaze with unbrindled lust, they explain that their mom died two years ago, and they've gone through 10 nannies since (do you fire them after sex, or do they get tired of the sleazy come-ons and quit?) But Baily likes their sleazy come-ons: "You think I'm hot? You have no idea how much that means to me!" This is family friendly? Ok, Ricardo Hurtado is of legal age, and in some states so is Jamie Martin Mann, but they're playing kids.
Finally Dad, a middle-aged cowboy, arrives. (wait -- if they didn't need a babysitter while Dad was out, why do they need a nanny? Oh, right, to have sex with). He's Beau (Eddie Cibrian, who played lots of lifeguards and teen hunks back in the day), accompanied by his blond bimbette child-hating girlfriend Summer.
"If you're not the new nanny, what are you doing here?" Beau asks. Baily explains:
Scene 2: Flashback to the night before. Bailey and her boyfriend Boone (you know, there are names that don't begin with B) are singing at a honky tonk, with a record producer listening. We hear her entire song: "Dream baby got me dreaming sweet dreams the whole day long." Ugh! That's terrible!. And are they supposed to stare at each other instead of the audience through the whole song?
The record producer hates it, naturally. So Boone replaces her with a boobalicious bimbette, and Bailey angrily breaks up with him. Since they lived together, she has no place to stay (um...a friend's house? A hotel? Let her stay there until she finds a place?), so she starts driving aimlessly. Then her truck conks out right outside the home of a family that needs a nanny. Well, it worked for Fran Fine.
Boone is played by Eric Balfour (below), who played many hunkoids back in the day.
Scene 3: They offer to call Bailey an Uber, but at that moment there's a tornado alarm, so they rush to the basement. Beau jokes about the last nine nannies being buried there (whoa, creepy! If I was Baily, I'd take my chances with the tornado.) But Bailey is too overwhelmed by the love and togetherness of this family to be scared.
Hey, there are musical instruments in the basement. Could the family be...coincidence of coincidence -- country-western singers?
Yep -- they join her for an impromptu song: "When Will I Be Loved." The kids know all the words to a song that last charted in 1975?
One of the girls -- Cassidy -- gets upset because her mom was a singer, and this is bringing up old memories. Beau tells her to get over herself. Great parenting, Beau -- why not let the girl be sad?
Now Tuck is upset -- since their Mom died they haven't been allowed to touch their instruments. This family gets more and more screwed up. Fortunately, Bailey has come to the rescue.
Scene 4: Cassidy runs out into the storm. Bailey follows her into the barn and apologizes for the "singin'"(of course it's singin', not singing). I fast-forward through their heart-to heart, which no doubt solves the psychological trauma that no therapist has been able to handle. And no doubt Mom will never be mentioned again.
Scene 5: Morning. I fast-forward through this scene, too. Obviously Bailey will agree to become the nanny, get the Partridge Family band back together, and start dating Beau.
Beefcake: Probably.
Gay Characters: Are you kidding?
Teens Out of a 1980s Sex Comedy: 2
Creepy Lines: 7
Absurd Coincidences: Too many to count.
Is seeing Ricardo Hurtado worth the pain: Heck, no.