Leanne Morgan Makes Middle Age Funny Without the Lesson
A newly single grandmother could easily become a delivery system for lessons about reinvention. Leanne Morgan has a better idea. In Leanne, a husband's departure leaves her title character rebuilding a life that already has decades of habits, family friction and hard-earned opinions packed into it. Season two arrives Thursday, August 27, and its real attraction is specificity.
Television still treats middle age as either a crisis to survive or a seminar in personal growth. Leanne works when it refuses both assignments. Its heroine is allowed to be funny now, not once she has processed the divorce and delivered a tidy speech about resilience.
Start with season one. Do not parachute into the new guest-star episodes. The jokes land better once you understand the family's accumulated pressure and the rhythms Leanne Morgan brings to the role. Binge the first season before Thursday, then continue into season two in order.
