Jennifer’s mom is a psychologist who hires her patients to work in the office. It is comeuppance after comeuppance.īut what gives Jennifer Falls an edge is the occasional descent into unexpected absurdity. Jennifer goes to work at a sports bar owned by her brother (played by Ethan Suplee, who also starred with Pressly in My Name Is Earl) and, one by one, all the people Jennifer insulted when she was rich and obnoxious, turn up. Mom is played by Jessica Walter, who is just ace at doing the passive-aggressive monster. (The firing scene in the first episode is very nicely done, with Jeffrey Tambor playing the boss who has to tell her she’s fired.) Soon, she’s broke and must, along with her teen daughter, move back into her mom’s house. But she’s obliged to shift gears when he’s fired from her top job at some Fortune 500 company. Jaime Pressly plays Jennifer Doyle, a woman with many anger issues she doesn’t want to acknowledge. We live in absurd times and this odd little show is an ideal companion to spend time with. No matter how hopeless his efforts to get customers interested, Stath will just repeatedly ask, “Do you want to take it?” Sophie, meanwhile, is the kind of person who gets lost two blocks from the office but is absolutely certain she’s going to break into show business. In the old-fashioned British style, the series makes a point of being set in a very unglamorous world.
Stath is so intensely well-meaning while being awful at his job that you get used to his obnoxious behaviour and tolerate it while seeing the humour in the contrast between him and his colleagues who are, really, just a shade shy of his weirdness.
These are people who are lovable in a strange way. There is a plainness to it all which is admirable. What unfolds is a series of squirm-inducing encounters with others. Stath’s sister, Sophie (Natasia Demetriou, real sister to the star and creator), is equally delusional and convinced she’s on her way to being a successful singer/dancer. The 21 best TV series to stream so far in 2021 A good deal of the deeply neurotic comedy arises from customers standing in embarrassed silence while he soldiers on, talking nonsense. Stath is hopeless at the job, spouting gibberish to customers and making all manner of wild claims for the properties he’s assigned to rent. A chap named Stath (Jamie Demetriou from Fleabag) is a needy, embarrassingly confused young man who works for his dad’s firm, renting apartments in London.
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