It’s a story about sobriety that’s told in uniquely funny, tender fashion there’s a hint of Konner’s Girls in the quirky comedic performances, but there’s also an amiability fitted to a younger-skewing network like Freeform.
Forced into sobriety in order to dodge jail time, Sam reluctantly moves back in with her mother Carol (Sheedy), picks up a job at a grocery store, and befriends fellow AAers as she attempts to reinvent herself at the ripe old age of 28. The story revolves around Sam Fink (Sofia Black-D’Elia), a journalist who moves back home to Boston after a booze-fueled meltdown at her New York media company. That show is Single Drunk Female, the dramedy from creator Simone Finch and executive producers Jenni Konner and Daisy Gardner that premieres Thursday on Freeform. And then this just came along, this show, and I thought, ‘Oh no, this is exactly what I want to do! This is what I was missing!” “If it wasn’t going to be the right thing, I have other things that I love to do that I find really fulfilling. “I did want to keep acting because I love it and I miss it when I don’t do it, but it just had to be the right thing,” she continues. Elmo’s Fire and The Breakfast Club actress succinctly puts it, “My life took different shapes.” Combine those with being a mother and, as the St. A few years ago, Ally Sheedy stepped away from acting because, she says, “Things came into my life that were not acting in television and in movies,” including a teaching job at City College and a freelance book-editing job.
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