| HBO | Season Premiere Date: December 12, 2010 |
Summary:
Carrie Fisher's one-woman show about her family, Star Wars, and being bipolar was filmed from a performance in New Jersey.
Genre(s):
Comedy, News/Documentary
Season 1 Episodes
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S1:E1. Wishful Drinking
Air Date: December 12, 2010
Dec 14, 2010
The results is an unapologetically whiny--but funny!--and often plays lika (successful) audition tape for The View.
Dec 14, 2010
Occasionally, Fisher's one-liners (the title included) overreach into silliness, but as directed by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato--whose examinations of notorious women include "Heidi Fleiss: The Would-Be Madam of Crystal," "Monica in Black and White" and "The Eyes of Tammy Faye"--Wishful Drinking plays like a knowing valentine to the boozy, blowsy, "Mad Men"-era days of Hollywood.
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Dec 14, 2010
Dec 14, 2010
She's at her best mapping out the messy web of relationships that come with being the daughter of Debbie Reynolds and the late Eddie Fisher. [20 Dec 2010, p.44]
Dec 14, 2010
Dec 14, 2010
This is not one of those emotional journeys in which the teller comes finally to forgive herself and the world and we get out our handkerchiefs. Craziness is Fisher's baseline--Wishful Drinking begins and ends before the image of a padded cell--and clarity the thing she buys with comedy. Life will kill you, she seems to say: You might as well laugh.
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Aug 27, 2011
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Air Date: December 12, 2010
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S1:E1. Wishful Drinking
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