Alcoholic recovery has fueled many a melodramatic film as well as a sizable share of soap opera plots, but there haven’t been nearly as many movies and TV shows that depict the messy, sloggy, difficult and ridiculous minutiae of the “one day at a time” that Alcoholics Anonymous has made famous. There have been even fewer sobriety stories told about young women who have grown up in a “rosé all day” culture that normalizes nonstop imbibing.
Freeform’s “Single Drunk Female” is a refreshing antidote to all this.
The show follows 28-year-old Samantha Finch (Sofia Black-D’Elia), who loses her New York media job after a drunken outburst and is forced to move back home to Boston with her mother (Ally Sheedy) and remain sober to avoid jail time.