I know I totally need to catch up on Insecure, the HBO series that made a star of Issa Rae. But there are 44 episodes over five seasons of that show, whereas there are just 8 episodes of the first season of How to Die Alone, a new show that just premiered on Hulu, starring an Insecure alum, Natasha Rothwell, so I admit I chose the smaller bite. But if Insecure is anywhere near as enjoyable, easy to watch and satisfying as How to Die Alone is, those five seasons will just fly by.
Don’t be put off by the title. How to Die Alone is not a show about the best way to kill yourself. Nor is it a sequel to 127 Hours. Instead, it is a sitcom-like show about a single woman, played by Rothwell, who works at JFK airport in New York and struggles with finding meaning and love in her life. She works in an airport but has never been on a 
plane. She recently broke up with a man she really liked because she was afraid to fall in love. She had a near-death experience, and her emergency contact was herself. These are all things that she is forced to confront in very neurotic and hilarious ways and leading the charge is Rothwell, an exceedingly charismatic performer who deserves her own show and makes the most of it.
There have been two recent dramatizations of the 2019 bombshell Prince Andrew interview that ended up sending unintended shockwaves through the English monarchy, but one is so much better than the other, which is why I’m highly recommending, if you are interested in either, choosing A Very Royal Scandal on Prime Video instead of Scoop on Netflix. 
rumors and to apologize specifically to one victim in particular, who claimed the Prince had raped her. But what was hoped, at least by the Palace, to put rumors to bed, only served to fan the flames as Andrew’s disastrous performance in the interview led to his essential banishment from the Royal Family in one of the most scandalous turn of events in the history of the modern English Monarchy.
I was trying to think of a way to describe the series Bodkin, a seven-episode series which dropped last May on Netflix, and I kept coming back to the same thing over and over again: Only Murders in the Building, but in Ireland. I really tried, but that really captures it perfectly.
Gomez about three residents of a building in Manhattan who love true crime podcasts who decide to host their own podcast when someone in their own building gets murdered. The essence of the show is that these three adorable people are surrounded by other adorable people and they all seem unfazed by people dropping dead all around them, probably because they are adorable people in adorable surroundings. Well, Bodkin is like that, but it’s Ireland.
Rashida Jones has long ago shed her nepo baby label and deserves credit for crafting her own fascinating, well-rounded career that I bet nobody saw coming. As the daughter of music legend Quincy Jones and actress/model Peggy Lipton, she probably could have done anything she wanted (especially after graduating from Harvard in 1997), but she decided to follow her mother’s footsteps into acting and soared to fame as the loveable best friend Ann Perkins on the long-running NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation (2009-2015). Since then, she’s made indie films (On the Rocks), adult animation (Duncanville), apocalyptic sci-fi (Silo), another mainstream sitcom (Angie Tribeca) and an 
offbeat, off-the-radar comedy series (Toast of Tinseltown). In other words, there’s no anticipating her next move and there’s nothing she won’t—or can’t—do.