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How to Die Alone Recap: Facing Flight
How to Die Alone explores a few TV tropes as it finds its mid-season groove.
In a world where new shows aren’t given enough time to bake with shorter seasons and smaller budgets, How to Die Alone uses familiar TV tropes to move along the storytelling while delivering refreshing writing and allowing the actors room to make the characters their own (Natasha Rothwell and Bashir Salahuddin did their thing!) The Bear ’s critically acclaimed episode “ Fishes ” comes to mind as a recent demonstration of how well Thanksgiving works as a backdrop for drama, and How to DieAlone’s take on the holiday stands out for similar reasons — but with much less yelling and a lot more laughs. Beverly arrives first with a witty sidekick friend, prepared to judge Sara’s white woman cooking to the best of her ability, complete with a bag of seasonings brought “just in case.” Then, Melissa joins, anxious to introduce her family to the new her, gushing about management training and her forthcoming Maui trip, but immediately catches digs from her mother, placing her firmly on the defense.
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