(Original post at The National Student)
SMILF’s finale is not quite as successful as the phenomenal previous episode but manages to tackle an equally serious issue.
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SMILF: ‘Family Sized Bucked of Popcorn and a Can of Wine’
(Original post at The National Student)
Packing a serious emotional punch, ‘Family Sized Bucket of Popcorn and a Can of Wine’ is funny and tragic in equal measure.
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SMILF: ‘Chocolate Pudding and a Cooler of Gatorade’
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When is a sitcom not a sitcom? When it’s a heartrending triptych of failed ambition. This week’s episode of SMILF, a show that’s only nominally a comedy, sees Bridgette, Tutu, and Rafi come face to face with their own delusions.
Just a few episodes earlier, the news that a new women’s basketball team was forming in Boston helped Bridgette overcome the shock of being sexually assaulted. In Chocolate Pudding & A Cooler of Gatorade, Bridgette finally receives the letter she’s been waiting for and is given the chance to show her skills.
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SMILF: ‘Run, Bridgette, Run’
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This week’s experimental instalment of SMILF takes the show’s traditional format and drives a hearse through it.
SMILF: ‘A Deep Dish Pizza and a Shot of Holy Water’
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Bridgette takes on toxic masculinity in A Deep Dish Pizza and a Shot of Holy Water.
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SMILF: ‘Half a Sheet Cake and A Blue Raspberry Slushie’
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Sex sells. That’s something that becomes abundantly clear for Bridgette in Half A Sheet Cake & A Blue Raspberry Slushie, after her struggle to pay the rent opens her mind to new career paths.
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SMILF: ‘1,800 Filet-O-Fishes and One Small Diet Coke’
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The latest episode of SMILF builds on the successes of its pilot. In 1,800 Filet-O-Fishes & One Small Diet Coke, the women in Bridgette’s life expose their vulnerabilities, whilst Bridgette takes some much-needed down time.
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SMILF: ‘A Box of Dunkies and Two Squirts of Maple Syrup’
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With a promising debut episode, SMILF combines a single mother’s sexual dysfunction with class commentary in A Box of Dunkies and Two Squirts of Maple Syrup.
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Bethan Ackerley 