My Troublesome Star runs twelve episodes and feels like the dramas that pulled me in years ago.
It is part revenge story, part commentary on the business that is show business. The leads are brilliant. The supporting cast holds up around them.
What I loved most is how it treats its older characters. There is no airbrushing of the fifty-year-old female lead. The clothes and the acting render how a fat woman, or one who believes she is fat, actually dresses and moves. The male lead gets one of the best moments of the season, when he understands that the woman he has idolized for twenty-five years is standing in front of him.
My one wish was for more romance, drawn out and given room.
My novel A Star Keeps Its Distance lives in this same world of fandom, longing, and second chances. Signed copies ship from my desk in Exton.
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