'Such Brave Girls' is Such Brave Television
There are shows that are an acquired taste. And then there’s Such Brave Girls. The six-episode comedy, which debuts on Hulu, is so jarring that there can be no middle ground. Either you will delight in the show’s cringy, envelope-pushing comedy, or you will be horrified.
The series, created and written by comedian Kat Sadler, follows twentysomething Josie (Sadler), her sister Billie (Sadler’s real-life sister Lizzie Davidson), and their mother Deb (Louise Brealey). The trio wallow in their desperate dysfunction. They seemingly have no female friends or other family. Their world is so insular that their seriously impaired approach to, well, everything, consistently ricochets among them.
The defining moment in their life occurred ten years ago when Deb’s husband/Josie and Billie’s father ran out to get tea bags at the store and never returned. The sudden abandonment did a number on the women. Josie and Billie cling to the hope that their father will return. “They do move stuff around in that shop a lot, though,” Billie says as if their dad could still be at the store trying to find just the right tea bags.
