Single Drunk Female
"Please adult responsibly."
Overview
A public flame-out at a New York media company forces 20-something alcoholic Samantha Fink to seize the only chance she has to sober up and avoid jail time: moving back home with her overbearing mother, Carol. Back in Greater Boston, Samantha restarts her life, working at the local grocery store while surrounded by all of the triggers that made her drink in the first place.
Single Drunk Female sidesteps the usual tropes of recovery stories by focusing on the friction between grand ambitions and the mundane reality of starting over. The show leans into the messy, uncomfortable humor that comes with being forced back into a childhood bedroom as an adult. It treats the process of getting sober not as a clean or linear transition, but as a series of clashing interactions with old habits and familiar surroundings.
The dynamic between Sofia Black-D'Elia and her onscreen mother anchors the series in a recognizable, sharp-tongued tension. Rather than leaning on sentimentality, the writing prioritizes the specific exhaustion of living in a town that knows exactly who a person used to be. The resulting comedy is grounded in the jagged edges of those relationships and the constant test of maintaining sobriety when every trigger feels like a permanent neighbor.
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- First Aired
- January 20, 2022
- Status
- Canceled
- Episode Runtime
- 21 minutes
- Origin
- US
- TMDB Votes
- 41