Day: April 6, 2023

Weekly Previews

Week’s top-10 for April 10: Women, modern and not, face crises

1) “Single Drunk Female” season-opener, 10 and 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, Freeform. Sam (Sophia Black-D’Elia, shown here) starts the second season on her 29th birthday, 549 days into sobriety. She likes her job, tolerates her parents (Ally Sheedy and Ian Gomez) and clings to her AA sponsor. But now there are big changes at work and for her friends. The result is a sharp blend of clever dialog and quiet moments that give this comedy some sharp bits of drama. Read more…

By Mike Hughes / April 6, 2023
Daily Best Bets

Best-bets for April 8: Easter-eve music, laughs, more

1) “Saturday Night Live,” 11:29 p.m., NBC. In the two decades since leaving “SNL,” Molly Shannon has popped up on the show a few times, but only hosted it once, in 2007. Now she’s back, with the Jonas Brothers as music guest. Lately, Shannon has thrived in the streaming/cable world. She did two “White Lotus” episode and the one-season “I Love That For You”; she plays a pop star’s mom in “The Other Two” (shown here), which starts its third season on May 4. Read more…

By Mike Hughes / April 6, 2023
Stories

She strayed into a wild, beautiful life

By now, some readers know the dizzying extremes of Cheryl Strayed’s life.
She was a star student who crumbled after her mother’s death … and a heroin addict, her life adrift … and a solo hiker on the 1,100-mile Pacific Crest Trail … and an author whose work keeps being filmed.
There was “Wild,” with Reese Witherspoon as Strayed, hiking the trail. And now there’s “Tiny Beautiful Things”(shown here with Kathryn Hahn) – debuting Friday (April 7) on Hulu, with a unique concept.
As Liz Tigelaar, the series creator, told the Television Critics Association: “I started to think: What would it look like if Cheryl had never hiked the Pacific Crest Trail? ’” Read more…

By Mike Hughes / April 6, 2023