The acclaimed series lands on Disney+ in Canada, and yes, it’s strange and different
You learn to be skeptical in this job. Press releases pour in and I try to sift through it all, separating the mundane from the possible masterpieces, leaning toward the genuinely entertaining and finding series that aren’t on everybody’s radar already. wasn’t top of my list for review. It looked, on paper, like a one-note story about a young woman with a drinking problem who overcomes her addiction and, naturally, finds redemption.
When we first meet central character Samantha , she’s 28 and working at a hip online magazine called Bzzzz. She shows up late for an editorial meeting, obviously tipsy, and when her boss makes it clear she is about to be fired, her rage and sarcasm veer this way and that. Eventually, she has a nasty little speech about the patriarchy. She’s incoherent, but all the hallmarks of an educated, entitled twentysomething are there in that scene.
“I miss being drunk, there’s a lot less responsibility,” Sam says at one point. At that particular point, she’s working resentfully in a supermarket and has crawled into some shelving space to take a rest. She’s a complicated person but has some snark in reserve for every situation. She really doesn’t know what responsibility is, at all. Her media career has made her so superficial, she’s clueless.
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