My Top Three This Week
Greetings to all my semi-constant readers. It has been a minute since I last posted but I have been looking for some good content out there and it has been hard to find. The new season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is losing a little ground and as much as I love the characters and their journey I want a better story line next season but they pulled out all the stops for the finale so I will be back. I have a few things I am really liking right now though.
1) Life & Beth, a Hulu Original is a brilliant vehicle for Amy Schumer which is why she wrote it and created it for herself. Schumer is Beth- a sales rep for a mid level wine distributor who has let herself fade into the background of her life. She settles for a narcissistic boyfriend who proposes to her during her mother's memorial service. Her life was on track to be a series of small disappointments when something creates a change and she wakes up and wants something different. She moves back to her mother's house in Long Island and reconnects with some of her old friends and starts working with a family winery. She meets a farmer who farms the crops on the winery whose simple life seems richer than her own. That farmer is played by Michael Cera and he brings out something in her that no else could. Through a series of flashbacks to her childhood we see the events that shaped her life with an alcoholic father with great casting of Michael Rapaport. Her relationship with her younger sister Ann ( the very talented Susannah Flood) and her best friend Maya (hilarious Yamaneika Saunders) and just the likability of Schumer in this role made it one of my favs.
2) Pieces of Her streaming on Netflix is a wild unpredictable rollercoaster and a highly addictive binge watch for me. Personally I will watch anything with Toni Collette in it and this was no exception. A young Andy (Bella Heathcote) is witness to a horrific mall killing and her mother Laura (Collette) savagely kills the young man who committed the murder. When the media hails her as a reluctant hero, Laura tries to keep her daughter and herself out of the spotlight. Someone from her past comes on and Laura sends Andy on the run with a suitcase full of money and new identities for Laura. Andy soon discovers she is in a dangerous cat and mouse game and nothing and no one in her life can be trusted.
3) Upload season two streaming on Prime is just as hilarious as season one. This is probably the funniest series on television right now. The plot line set in the future where a young Nathan Brown ( Robbie Amell) dies mysteriously and his conscious uploaded in a virtual afterlife where money can get you everything including a guardian angel Nora (Andy Allo) working for the evil money grabbing Horizon. There is a resistance to the inequality in the world and Nora and Nathan join the forces against the machine. This may not sound like a comedy and this series created by Greg Daniels (Parks and Recreation and The Office) but it is witty, smart and funny as anything I have seen lately. Some great performances by Allegra Edwards, Kevin Bigley and Owen Daniels.
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