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Stephanie Hsu Sex Comedy ‘Laid’ Strikes a Scattered Tone with a Morbid Premise: TV Review
The Peacock sex comedy stars Stephanie Hsu as a woman whose exes start to die, a morbid premise it tackles with a scattered tone.
But Ruby’s karmic comeuppance in this series, adapted by sitcom veterans Nahnatchka Khan (“Fresh off the Boat”) and Sally Bradford McKenna (“The Goldbergs”) from an Australian show of the same name, doesn’t affect her directly. This morbid premise evokes the late, great “Lovesick.” But unlike that British series, in which the hero’s STI leads him to revisit past relationships, the heightened stakes of “Laid” present a tonal hurdle the eight-episode season proves unable to surmount. This is mostly done not through organic interactions, but through Ruby’s therapist (Elizabeth Bowen) explaining her problems — from abandonment issues to fixating on a kind of love that only exists in popular culture — to her face.
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