DeMarcus Family Rules

Todd Chrisley sold Netflix a neighbor show over dinner.

Jay DeMarcus told MusicRow the pitch happened around the corner from his Nashville house. He and Allison had already appeared on Chrisley Knows Best a handful of times. At dinner, Todd Chrisley said he had never done a show outside his own family, then told them they had one. The way they were with each other, and how funny and unpredictable the kids were, would be the peek behind the curtain when Jay came home off the road. Jay admitted they had "little trepidations" about cameras everywhere. latestnetflix.com's view is that Chrisley promised to protect the Rascal Flatts brand Jay had spent two decades building.

The six-episode Netflix original arrived on August 19, 2020. Maverick TV USA, All3Media America, and Todd Chrisley Productions made it. The Rascal Flatts site lists John Hesling, Simon Knight, Todd Chrisley, and Scott Teti as executive producers. Jay and Allison, married since 2004, sit at the center with Madeline, then 9, and Dylan, then 8. Allison is a former Miss Tennessee, Miss Tennessee Teen USA, and Miss Tennessee USA, and co-executive director of the Miss Tennessee pageant. They met on the set of the Rascal Flatts "These Days" video, where she played Gary LeVox's love interest. Netflix still tags her an "ex-beauty queen" in the one-line synopsis. , , ,

He walked in with a St. Bernard. She had packed a week's outfits.

Taste of Country called them "the ultimate odd couple" off the trailer. Allison says she was raised with rules. Jay answers that he was raised just to keep his private parts covered up. She plans outfits. He arrives with a St. Bernard that did not look pre-approved. B104.7 described the clips Netflix wanted. Camping. A birthday that goes big. Jay in a hazmat suit frying a Thanksgiving turkey. A chainsaw at a campfire. Jay's line in that same write-up is the show's thesis. Kids grow up too fast, so you have to create lifelong memories. ,

A crew filmed for three months from October through December 2019, all of it before COVID froze the road. Allison told MusicRow they captured Madeline's birthday and Thanksgiving. That Thanksgiving, she said, was the first time the whole family sat together since her father died in 2016. Dylan wanted the cameras to stay. Madeline took longer. Jay said they did not map scenes. The editors shaped the half-hours after the fact. TVmaze's episode list is all dated August 19, 2020, including Life Is a Highway, A Dog Day Thanksgiving, and the finale Rules for the Future. ,

The band stayed off camera. Season 2 never arrived.

Jay told MusicRow that Gary LeVox and Joe Don Rooney do not appear in those first episodes, with a maybe for later seasons. Taste of Country noted that Rascal Flatts were in their 20th year and that the Farewell: Life Is a Highway Tour had already been cancelled for the pandemic. The family had not seen the cut. Allison said they would watch it with everyone else. On the band site, Jay said he did not think anyone would be ready for what they would see once a man who had spent most of his adult life on the road came home and tried to follow the rules. Allison laughed that she did not know whether to be nervous or excited, that she is reserved and Jay is "pretty...not so reserved." Netflix still lists a 2020 TV-14 reality series. TMDB still files one six-episode season as a returning series. No second season ever showed up. , , , ,