Leanne

Matt Roush says...

Reminiscent of the days when comedy mogul Chuck Lorre collaborated with talents like Cybill Shepherd and Brett Butler to create hit network sitcoms, this old-school comedy pairs Lorre and co-creator Susan McMartin with Southern comedian Leanne Morgan, starring as (who else) Leanne. We first meet this Knoxville mother and grandmother at her lowest, consoled by her feisty sister Carol (sitcom pro and Mom alum Kristen Johnston) on the morning after Leanne’s husband of 33 years (The Drew Carey Show‘s Ryan Stiles) dumps her for another woman. Morgan has a way with a self-deprecating wisecrack—trying on a revealing dress for a girls’ night out, she laments, “This thing’s full of windows and they’ve all got bad views”—and she gets solid support from a cast including Celia Weston and Blake Clark as her aging parents and Graham Rogers and Hannah Pilkes as her grown children. The 16-episode first season is available for binge-watching.

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