Sofia Black-D'Elia, Ally Sheedy on How Single Drunk Female Gets Sobriety, Queer Stories Right
Single Drunk Female’s mid-to-late 20-something Sam blows up her job and life in a drunken stupor, she’s forced to move home to the Boston area to live with her mother.
There she reluctantly begins a journey of sobriety. The new Freeform series that stars Sofia Black-D’Elia as Sam and ’80s icon Ally Sheedy as her wine-swilling mother, Carol, is a comedy with loads of heart and plenty of drama that navigates sobriety with razor-sharp accuracy.
And the series, inspired in part by out creator Simone Finch’s experience in recovery, gets queerer with each episode.As the pilot episode unfolds, once Sam has fulfilled her community service for accidentally hitting her Buzzfeed-esque boss while on a binge, she returns home only to screw up again, narrowly escaping jail time.
At that point she asks Olivia (Rebecca Henderson), a radio/podcasting personality with an impressive résumé who is married to a woman, to be her sponsor.
