Promoting the book on Boston’s public television station, Julia upstages the talk show host by preparing an omelet on-air.
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The landmark book’s publication comes as Julia is beginning menopause and the series - in a way that feels a bit cringe-worthy and reductive given its male-dominated creative origins - treats her new ventures as the child she never got to have. Maisel), with Charles McDougall directing the first two episodes, Julia begins in 1961 with Julia (Lancashire) and husband Paul (David Hyde Pierce) enjoying a celebratory dinner after hearing that her book, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, will be published. Guest stars include Isabella Rossellini, Judith Light, Robert Joy, Erin Neufer, Jefferson Mays, James Cromwell and Adriane LenoxĬreated by Daniel Goldfarb ( The Marvelous Mrs. It’s an earnestness that won’t be for everybody, but being conventional doesn’t preclude occasional fun bits of media-savvy insight, an abundance of well-photographed food and a towering - in every sense - central performance from Sarah Lancashire.Ĭast: Sarah Lancashire, David Hyde Pierce, Bebe Neuwirth, Brittany Bradford, Fran Kranz and Fiona Glascott. Julia mostly doesn’t wink or nudge (and the moments it does are easily the show’s worst), and it indulges in clichés without self-consciousness or self-awareness.
Naturally, HBO’s Winning Time has received some criticism for a possible excess of the fourth-wall-breaking, dramatic irony and genre-tweaking that are McKay’s hallmarks.Īudiences troubled by the meta touches (and perhaps the sour tone) in Winning Time may feel more at home with HBO Max’s Julia, a resolutely old-fashioned, middle-brow bio-dramedy about Julia Child, public television and the healing power of a good marriage. The conventions of the Hollywood biopic are so entrenched that Adam McKay has carved out a lucrative niche primarily in acknowledging the artifice (not fixing or updating it, mind you).
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