As a performer, Kerry Washington is particularly adept at conveying uptightness — her crispness of bearing and her rat-a-tat delivery suggest a certain passion for organization, for rigor. This was…
is particularly adept at conveying uptightness — her crispness of bearing and her rat-a-tat delivery suggest a certain passion for organization, for rigor. This was the ingredient that helped elevate “Scandal,” and the emotionally chaotic but professionally fastidious character of Olivia Pope. Now, on the Hulu sitcom “,” Washington’s back to the angle that suits her best — and at the heart of a sweetly intended show of disarming quality.
Here, Washington plays Paige, a relationship therapist whom viewers may not be shocked to learn hasn’t quite got herself figured out. Her tendency to dispense advice about fixing romantic partnerships rubs up against the fact that she makes poor choices. We learn, gradually, about the role model she’s emulating in her own way: Her father, Edwin, newly released from prison, is at once astoundingly charismatic and someone with an entangled personal life.
Refreshingly, “UnPrisoned,” created by Tracy McMillan, treats Edwin’s incarceration as a fact, rather than a stain or stigma. It’s a fruitful approach for the show, because Edwin’s time behind bars created a set of circumstances to which everyone in his family had to react, but not because he is irredeemably bad. With that said, Edwin is indeed a vexed figure for Paige. His choices, after all, have set the template for Paige’s private turmoil, and his reentry is hardly seamless.
“UnPrisoned” excels when leaning into both leads’ complications, Paige’s alternately polished exterior and inner messiness as well as her father’s devilish charm that overlays real uncertainty about how to live his life post-prison. The proceedings are pleasantly shaggy. Plotlines feel loose and somewhat improvisational, befitting a show in which the protagonist derails a TED talk she’s delivering to speak extemporaneously about her family’s story.
But the unruliness of the series adds to the sense that Paige’s world cannot possibly be as orderly as Washington makes us believe she’d like it to be. “UnPrisoned” asks us to follow a sort of double awakening: In the foreground, Lindo gives viewers a concentrated dose of charm even as his character comes to realize that he cannot use sweet talk as a shortcut to rebuilding his relationship with his daughter.
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