Now that How to Die Alone is gaining momentum, let’s talk about it

I’m an enormous fan of Natasha Rothwell. Full stop. She was my absolute favorite character on Insecure because she was in a few of my absolute favorite scenes on the show. In fact, when things don’t go my way, I often tell people to “remember me differently” as a nod to the scene where Rothwell’s character, Kelly, was tasered at Coachella and peed herself. Even now, I laugh so hard I tear up watching that scene. I’ve felt like she needed her own TV show since “Insecure,” so when the promo for her upcoming Hulu show, “How to Die Alone,” aired, I used to be 100% on board.

The series, which premiered on September 13, follows Melissa (Rothwell), a New York JFK airport worker whose life is pretty average until she has a life-changing experience that makes her want something more for herself. That “desire” includes her decision to take her first flight — a vacation to Hawaii to attend the marriage of her boyfriend, Alex (Jocko Sims), with whom she is in love and whom she pushed away so he wouldn’t have a probability to leave her. The solid of characters is rounded out by other JFK airport employees who’ve various degrees of importance in Mel’s life.

And then there’s her brother Brian, played by Bashir Salahuddin, who was absolutely HILARIOUS as Officer Goodnight on Southside. In considered one of Mel’s attempts to regain a few of her own joy, she finally ends up on a dating site, meets her brother (who’s married) there, and starts cheating on him, which leads to an episode that takes place on Thanksgiving and is absolutely flawless.

As of this writing, the series has aired six episodes (the last being the Thanksgiving episode, “Let Fear Win”), and I’ll say right away what I didn’t want to say out loud until now: the series began very slowly, and I used to be very, very concerned. Of course, unless it’s absolutely essential, I don’t like to be overly critical of black creative art; as anyone who knows my love for artists like Ray J can attest. I normally find joy within the existence of black art and creativity, and can largely at all times default to the actual fact that something exists, no matter how good or bad it is. This includes anything written, directed, and produced by Tyler Perry, which I once called the scariest thing within the history of cinema.

The thing is, I’m an enormous Natasha Rothwell fan and I wanted the show to be amazing because I need everyone to love her work as much as I do. I wanted to watch the primary 4 episodes (all of them got here out the identical day) after which scream at the highest of my lungs that everyone had to watch the show. But I couldn’t do that. The first few episodes were largely boring and uncomedic, even in the event that they tried to be. It felt like something was missing and since I don’t like to badmouth dark art, mind you, I just decided to keep quiet. I used to be fully prepared to only talk about the show once I met up, which happened, and see what other people thought. It seems I wasn’t alone; the few people I spoke to who had seen it felt the identical way I did, and I saw almost no gossip about it on any of my social media apps. It was just like the show didn’t exist in any respect; I wondered if anyone else was doing the identical thing I used to be; Natasha Rothwell appears to enjoy 100% support among the many black community.

And then got here episodes 5 and 6 — “Trust No One” and “Let Fear Win” — and the character development of Mel and the people round her began to construct. The fun went up a number of notches, and the show seemed to be picking up steam. Episode 6, as I discussed, was on one other level of quality. Brian and Mel’s super-controversial relationship was on full display in a really familiar way, with just the appropriate amount of comedy and solid writing. Now I’m here, waiting for the following batch of episodes, because “How to Die Alone” now seems like the show I used to be hoping for all along. Maybe it’s my fault for expecting something amazing right off the bat, but 4 episodes looks as if enough to gauge where the show might (or may not) be headed. But I’ve talked to other people who find themselves also watching, and, well, it looks as if we’re all feeling the identical way again. The consensus is that we’re all cooking up gas right away.

Now that I can breathe a sigh of relief and say: “he’s a good man, Savannah” (on this case “How to Die Alone” could be Kenneth; although I assume that’s true on this case), I’m excited. I even went back and rewatched earlier episodes; that’s where I’m at with this show now. Natasha Rothwell impressed me a lot along with her work on Insecure that I used to be waiting for her probability, and he or she took advantage of it and placed on a superb show that I hope gets a probability to really take off.

Now I’m fully invested within the book How to Die Alone and I hope many other individuals are as well.