My Top 5 Obsessions This Week
Greetings to all of my semi constant readers. It is time for a post Thanksgiving roundup of favorites. Hope you enjoy them celebrate the upcoming season with lots of entertainment.
1) SMILF on Showtime is a Rosie showcase if there ever as one. If anyone had any inkling of the depths of this talented woman, it s me. I have seen the sadness behind her eyes even as she was making us laugh. Frankie Shaw is the SMILF here , a twenty something raising Larry and maintaining a retalionship with her mom Tutu (O’Donnell) who suffers from depression. This is a standout.
2) Love You More a pilot on Amazon that I hope gets picked up.starring Bridget Everett as a Chardonnay guzzling party girl with big appetites for men and booze by night, but by day she is extraordinary as her job as a counselor at an independent living residence for young adults with Down Syndrome. It is full of bawdiness, pathos, oh it has musical numbers. Directed by Bobcat Goldthwait, this has lots of promise. oh and Loni Anderson plays her mom so sweetly. Am I seeing a great mom trend!
3) At Home With Amy Sedaris is a fever dream of a show. Part Pee Wee’s Playhouse, part 1960’s Women’s crafting shows and a subversive cooking and outdoor show with a cast of characters, many played by her. A holiday must watch. If you love Amy as much I do this is must see TV.
4) Lady Bird out at theaters now, an homage to Sacramento, written and directed by Greta Gerwig is the first in a line up of great movies I am seeing right now. Saoirse Ronan is such a transcendent performer she can play anything. Laurie Metcalf, Laurie Metcalf, Laurie Metcalf-this is your Oscar year. I feel it. This coming of age film takes the mundane life and re-examines it under a microscope. The whole cast featuring the Amazing Tracy Letts and Lois Smith and Lucas Hedges someone I expect we will be seeing much more of in the coming year.
5) There’s... Johnny! On Hulu is about young Andy Klavin who becomes a gofer at “The Tonight Show” circa 1972. Great cast featuring Jane Levy, Roger Bart, Tony Danza . But the great focal point is how the actual footage of the show featuring Johnny, Ed and Doc. It is a love story to the glory days and I loved it.
3) At Home With Amy Sedaris is a fever dream of a show. Part Pee Wee’s Playhouse, part 1960’s Women’s crafting shows and a subversive cooking and outdoor show with a cast of characters, many played by her. A holiday must watch. If you love Amy as much I do this is must see TV.
4) Lady Bird out at theaters now, an homage to Sacramento, written and directed by Greta Gerwig is the first in a line up of great movies I am seeing right now. Saoirse Ronan is such a transcendent performer she can play anything. Laurie Metcalf, Laurie Metcalf, Laurie Metcalf-this is your Oscar year. I feel it. This coming of age film takes the mundane life and re-examines it under a microscope. The whole cast featuring the Amazing Tracy Letts and Lois Smith and Lucas Hedges someone I expect we will be seeing much more of in the coming year.
5) There’s... Johnny! On Hulu is about young Andy Klavin who becomes a gofer at “The Tonight Show” circa 1972. Great cast featuring Jane Levy, Roger Bart, Tony Danza . But the great focal point is how the actual footage of the show featuring Johnny, Ed and Doc. It is a love story to the glory days and I loved it.
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