{"id":397984,"date":"2022-01-22T17:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/single-drunk-female-series-premiere\/"},"modified":"2022-01-22T17:00:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T14:00:32","slug":"single-drunk-female-series-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/single-drunk-female-series-premiere\/","title":{"rendered":"#’Single Drunk Female’ Series Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#’Single Drunk Female’ Series<\/a> Premiere<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

Welcome to our weekly column<\/em><\/strong> Can\u2019t Miss Episode of the Week<\/em><\/strong>! Every Saturday we\u2019ll be spotlighting a different episode of television from that week that we thought was exceptional and a must-see. Check back to see if your favorite show got the nod \u2014 or to learn about a new one! Spoilers ahead.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In Freeform\u2019s new dark comedy Single Drunk Female<\/em><\/a>, which premiered with back-to-back episodes on January 20, it\u2019s the little things that matter. The series follows Sam (Sofia Black-D\u2019Elia), a girl in her late 20s, who has to confront her drinking problem. The modest premise is that getting sober means doing simple things like making your bed in the morning. The pilot ends on a shot of Sam\u2019s messily made bed, and it\u2019s the moment we know she has decided to take her sobriety seriously. Details like that are what make the show so compelling.<\/p>\n

Despite the fact that we start with a ridiculous incident where Sam blatantly totes around a water bottle full of vodka at work, yells at her boss and then assaults him when he tries to fire her, Single Drunk Female<\/em> is a quiet show. It focuses on this one ordinary person and her small problems in her small life, which is what makes it feel so authentic and relatable. With it comes moments of low-key hilarity, like the ongoing gag where Sam\u2019s parole officer Gail (Madison Shepard) complains about her sister, newly widowed and newly rich, pretending to be overcome with grief as a way of bragging\u2013what\u2019s she supposed to do now with her dead husband\u2019s fancy boat? This isn\u2019t a show going for the loud cheap laugh, but rather has subtle, witty humor that creeps up on you.<\/p>\n

Sam\u2019s obstacles include moving back in with her mom, a best friend (Lily Mae Harrington) who wants to go out drinking, and taking a major step down career-wise by working at a grocery store instead of the New York-based media<\/a> job she was fired from. And because this is a small Greater Boston Area town, she runs into her now engaged former best friend and ex-boyfriend while at the store wearing a hair-net and trying to learn how to use the meat slicer.<\/p>\n

The show smartly doesn\u2019t make ex-BFF Brit (Sasha Comp\u00e9re) into a villain. From the jump, we see that even though there\u2019s a lot of hurt between the two, Brit still clearly cares about Sam. Similarly, other character are just as well-rounded. Sam\u2019s mom Carol, played by the amazing Ally Sheedy, can be out of touch as she pours Sam a glass of wine, and responds with shock that Sam isn\u2019t even allowed one glass. Yet, Carol is humanized as she tries to live her best life as a widow. She follows up the wine incident with the line, \u201cIt\u2019s hard to be a human.\u201d Yes, it is Carol.<\/p>\n

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Sam herself isn\u2019t so likable. She\u2019s messy and destructive\u2013she insists on driving drunk even as her equally drunk friends try to stop her with promises of an Uber driver on the way\u2013and yet, in no small way thanks to Black-D\u2019Elia\u2019s sympathetic performance, we root for her. As she tells her mom, alcoholism is a disease, and she\u2019s trying with all her might to make it through, one day at a time.<\/p>\n

Other standout characters come from the AA meetings Sam attends. A captivating Rebecca Henderson stars as Olivia, a veteran of the program who has her life together and becomes an unwitting sponsor to Sam. James (Garrick Bernard) is a potential love interest who seems like he\u2019s into Sam, but respects her sobriety journey more than he wants to go on a date with her. As he explains, until she\u2019s sober for a year and a day, she\u2019s not supposed to be romantically or sexually involved with anyone. So for now, he\u2019s a friend who comes to pick her up when she calls him worried that she might go into a liquor store.<\/p>\n

These first two episodes celebrate the small victories, whether it be making your bed, showing up to an AA meeting, or earning your first sober paycheck. We could use more shows like that.<\/p>\n

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Single Drunk Female<\/em>, Thursdays, 10\/9c, Freeform<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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