{"id":6247,"date":"2018-03-01T16:22:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T14:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=6247"},"modified":"2018-03-01T16:22:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T14:22:57","slug":"2018-golden-globe-best-comedy-nominee-smilf-comes-to-showmax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2018\/03\/01\/2018-golden-globe-best-comedy-nominee-smilf-comes-to-showmax\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Golden Globe Best Comedy Nominee SMILF Comes To Showmax"},"content":{"rendered":"

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SMILF, which earned creator Frankie Shaw nominations for both Best Comedy and Best Actress at the 2018 Golden Globes, is now streaming first and only on Showmax in South Africa.<\/p>\n

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Alexandra and Anna Reimer as Larry, Frankie Shaw as Bridgette Bird in SMILF (Season 1, Episode 04). – Photo: Lacey Terrell\/SHOWTIME<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In addition to executive producing, directing and writing SMILF, Frankie plays Bridgette Bird, a 20-something from South Boston whose desires for relationships, sex and a career collide with the realities of working-class single motherhood.<\/p>\n

This raw, honest comedy is based on her Sundance Film Festival Award-winning short film of the same name – and her own experiences of having a child in her mid-twenties.<\/p>\n

SMILF debuted with the third biggest premiere week audience for a comedy ever on SHOWTIME – the network that brought you Shameless – and ended the year on multiple best of 2017 lists, including Deadline, The Los Angeles Times, and Vogue. Forbes described it as \u201cthe show Girls wished it could be,\u2019 while WIRED wrote that, \u201cIn 2018, TV needs to take a cue from SMILF\u201d and stay \u201cas intimate as it was in 2017.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom its first episode, the refreshingly honest point of view of SMILF broke through with audiences, the press and on social media,\u201d said Gary Levine, SHOWTIME\u2019s president of programming. \u201cFrankie Shaw is a creative force to be reckoned with; her show is funny and forthright, pointed and poignant, irreverent and relevant, all at once.\u201d<\/p>\n

SMILF stands for \u2018Single Mother I\u2019d Like To F*k\u2019 and is meant to be ironic. \u201cThere’s no real room for a woman’s existence in the word MILF,\u201d Frankie told The New Yorker. \u201cBy getting inside her life experience, we are in a sense changing the meaning, reclaiming it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The hit comedy series also features multiple Emmy winner Rosie O\u2019Donnell in her first series regular TV role, as Bridgette\u2019s stubborn mom, while Golden Globe and Emmy nominee Connie Britton (Nashville, Friday Night Lights) guest stars as her unstable boss, Ally, in four episodes. Frankie\u2019s fellow executive producers include Oscar-nominee Michael London (Sideways) and six-time Emmy nominee Lee Eisenberg (The Office).<\/p>\n