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Oct. 27
NETWORK
HBO
TIME
10:30 PM
Mrs. Fletcher
→ In HBO’s latest dramedy, Kathryn Hahn stars
as an empty nester who is finding herself
in more ways than one. Here EW critic Kristen
Baldwin explains why you should get to know
the marvelous Mrs. Fletcher.
“MILF” into her search engine on
a whim, and suddenly her focus
turns to taking care of herself, for
the first time in years.
Much like HBO’s last collabora-
tion with author Tom Perrotta,
The Leftovers, Mrs. Fletcher
paints a poignant and wry portrait
of upheaval and loss—but in this
case, there’s a lot more porn.
Though websites like milfateria
.com help Eve begin to lose
her inhibitions in private (she
masturbates while making
cookies, fantasizes in the frozen-
food aisle, screens amateur porn
with her morning coffee),
they also make the idea of actual
human connections even more
daunting. And Brendan, who
learned everything he knows
about intergender relationships
EVE FLETCHER (KATHRYN HAHN)
is used to taking care of people.
By day she runs a senior center,
which means she’s the one the
craft ladies call when a resident
named Roy (Bill Raymond) starts
watching dirty videos in the rec
room. At home, Eve does every-
thing for her self-centered son,
Brendan (Jackson White), a
strapping dude-bro who can’t wait
to be the big man on campus at
college—once mom packs up
all his stuff and drives him there, of
course. Facing her empty nest
with despair, Eve has drinks with
her friend Jane (Casey Wilson),
who gifts her with a candle that
says “Breathe” and tells her to go
have some fun, “like a handsome
contractor.” During her first night
alone in the house, Eve types
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