.amyTVGal reviews Julia on HBO Max, a delightful 8-episode series premiering this Thursday about Julia Child (wonderfully played by Sarah Lancashire) and her rise to fame:
It’s about her marriage, rooted in devotion, love and equality. And it’s about a very specific moment in time when fewer women worked and even fewer had positions of power. Frozen TV dinners, tuna casseroles and, as one character puts it, cooking that made him “sad and fearful” were more the norm. TV was in its nascent stages, with Child and her husband Paul not even owning one when she first got the idea for her series.
Ultimately, the series hinges on Lancashire’s transformative performance. She inhabits Child so fully from her very specific accent, to the cadence of her speech to the absolute infectiousin her interactions with others. Lancashire is never impersonating Child, she is fully inhabiting her. Child’s enthusiasm for everything was pervasive; she enjoyed food savoring the flavors and textures, and she wasn’t, as the saying goes, afraid to take up space in the room.
Most shows and movies based on real life people weave fact and fiction because real lives don’t often fit neatly into a prescribed narrative form.does the same—and the poetic license had me Googling. Alice Naman , a young African American associate producer at WGBH, did not exist in real life, but in the series Alice is instrumental in not only gettingon TV but also in selling it to other PBS stations, a pivotal development in the success of the show.
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