Tim Allen Addresses Why His ‘Shifting Gears’ Character Avoids Politics

Tim Allen plays a grieving widow and auto restoration shop owner on ABC’s sitcom Shifting Gears, but his character is a blank slate when it comes to his political views, and that is by design. Speaking to Us Weekly in a recent interview, Allen revealed that it was intentional to keep his character’s (Matt Parker) political leanings under wraps, so as not to distract from the other elements of Matt’s life and personality. “You don’t know how smart this guy is. You don’t know who Matt Parker is,” Allen told the outlet. “He’s a little hard to pin down about what he really thinks…