For anyone patiently awaiting the return of HBO’s Bridget Everett gem “Somebody Somewhere,” Hulu has the perfect fix: “How to Die Alone, the new half-hour comedy created by and starring Natasha Rothwell.
You may know her as livewire friend Kelli Prenny on ‘Insecure’ (for which she also wrote) or put-upon spa manager Belinda Lindsey on the first season of ‘The White Lotus’ (for which she earned an Emmy nomination), but here Rothwell proves she has Big Leading Lady Energy as Mel Jackson, a down-bad woman whose near-death experience makes her realize she has a little fight in her yet.
“How to Die Alone” — which premiered four episodes Sept. 13, then drops two a week through Sept. 27 — introduces us to Mel on her 35th birthday. The transportation cart driver at New York City’s JFK airport describes herself as fat, Black, and broke, someone whose love life is a joke and who’s considered
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