While perusing the list of likely candidates for an Emmy nomination as Best Drama Guest Actress, you will likely see some of the most preeminent dramatic actresses on television today, names such as Cicely Tyson, Cherry Jones, Phylicia Rashad, Pamela Adlon… wait, what? Pamela Adlon? Yes, indeed. One of television’s sharpest and funniest comedic writer/performers may very well earn an Emmy nomination this year for her dramatic turn in “This Is Us.”
Though she has on occasion shown some flashes of drama as single mom Sam Fox on her FX comedy series “Better Things” (for which she may earn another nomination as Best Comedy Actress), nothing has quite prepared us for how deep she digs as Dr. Leigh, the new therapist for the troubled Randall (Sterling K. Brown) on the NBC series. Adlon has one of the more dramatic introductions of the season when all of what we...
Though she has on occasion shown some flashes of drama as single mom Sam Fox on her FX comedy series “Better Things” (for which she may earn another nomination as Best Comedy Actress), nothing has quite prepared us for how deep she digs as Dr. Leigh, the new therapist for the troubled Randall (Sterling K. Brown) on the NBC series. Adlon has one of the more dramatic introductions of the season when all of what we...
- 7/8/2020
- by Tom O'Brien
- Gold Derby
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