In “How to Die Alone”, the creative star Natasha Rothwell (“Insecure”, “Saturday Night Live”) plays Melissa, or Mel, described by Hulu, where she premieres on Friday, as “an employee of the JFK airport, black, fat and bankruptcy who has never fallen in love and has forgotten how to dream.”
Its size really does not enter it, there is no indications that it is heavy because it is unhappy or unhappy because it is heavy, but it seems to be trapped in its place, 35 and without love life and there are no perspectives beyond leading passengers around JFK in one of those motorized cars.
This is a story of self -realization hanging in a romantic comedy: to begin, it takes place at an airport, the romantic commander of all romantic environments, which is more, Alex is about to marry and Mel has been invited to Hawaii's wedding, probably in the knowledge that he cannot attend, which cannot allow the ticket and, metaphorically, is afraid to fly.
In “How to Die Alone,” Natasha Rothwell plays a JFK employee named Melissa, who is best friends with Rory (Conrad Ricamora).
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The program, which has some air of an widespread independent film, is a spectrum of styles, from Slapstick to drama straight, with interviews of person on the street that introduce each episode that can be sentimental to the corn point, although it is enough to me.
Mel lives in a series of maximized credit cards, although not, one would say, to drown in a crab range to carry (“real crab, because I paid more for my birthday”), “dies” for three minutes and returns to the conscience in a hospital room, with comedy doctors at his feet and old Elise (Jackie Richardson) You are going to Hunt and Drive through the season.
“There are three types of death,” says Elise.
“I used to be like you,” he tells Mel, whom he has somehow analyzed in an instant, “I bit my tongue, I was afraid of everything.
When the hospital mistakes Mel at home with Elise's belongings, she visits the empty apartment, ordered and full of women's books and returns with some photographs, a credit card and a dog.
After a furniture falls on her, Melissa (Natasha Rothwell) has an experience close to death that makes her reassess her life.
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Although Alex is continuously in his mind, and there are some well -written scenes between Mel and Alex, whose friendship you are free, such as Mel, to interpret as flirting, the romantic thread of history is its least vital.
These include Mel's married brother (the great Bashir Salahuddin, of “South Side” and his own “Sherman's Showcase”); the show's Shakespearean clowns; alt-comedy legend H. Jon Benjamin as a sort of mystical flight guru;
Obviously, Mel is his worst enemy, that is the point, and apart from a critical mother (veterinary of Saturday Night Live “and a jealous co -worker (Michelle Mcleod), almost her only enemies, she feels without friends, she has a unfortunate group of friends that can be done only for her and a ability to talk to Strangers (in Spanish and as well people who are sweet.
