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An idyllic, life-changing interlude at a counseling retreat in Hawaii follows, where she cavorts with sea turtles, finds inner-peace and begins soothingly narrating her own spiritual reclamation. Can Amy maintain her new-found serenity and find — or maintain — the peace she professes to have achieved, especially within a conglomerate that cares not a whit about her? Changing the laws of TV gravity is probably another matter entirely. Home TV Reviews. Oct 6, pm PT.

By Brian Lowry Plus Icon. Brian Lowry blowryontv. See All. Enlightened Mon. More From Our Brands. Its biggest crime back then, it seems, was to be born too soon. When Enlightened first screened, streaming services were in their infancy and the TV landscape was more conservative and dominated by the risk-averse network model. These days female anti-heroes and shows that mash up comedy with drama are the norm.

The premise is simple: a self-destructive woman, Amy Jellicoe Dern , is having an affair with her boss and has a nervous breakdown at the office. When we meet Amy, she has mascara running down her cheeks, is crying in the toilets and then — with the strength that comes from sheer rage — manages to prise open the doors of an elevator to confront her cowardly boss. After taking a month out to attend a wellness retreat in Hawaii, she comes back enlightened and tranquil.

Returning to the banally evil corporation where she once had an office and an assistant, Amy is working in the basement with all the other corporate misfits doing menial data entry work. Did you know Edit.

Trivia On a roundtable for comedy actresses put together by the magazine The Hollywood Reporter, Laura Dern commented her surprise regarding the journalist questions about the show. According to Dern, many of them emphasized the imperfect personality of her character, making the actress wonder if James Gandolfini or Larry David stars of The Sopranos and Curb Your Enthusiasm , also on HBO were asked the same types of questions, considering their characters are praised for how flawed they are.

Dern reveals that she just assumed the audience would be interested in seeing a female character whose strength and comicality came from her extreme behavior, and that she never got those questions when promoting independent movies, where she had played characters with similar traits. User reviews 63 Review. Top review. Strangely addicting. I read somewhere that this show was one of the best new shows of the year, so I started watching it on demand.

I find it to be a very interesting mix of humor, drama, and intrigue. Laura Dern is great as an almost completely unpredictable person. It's almost scary to say that her character is like more than a few people I've met in my life. This show covers work, home, friends, and life matters in a pretty realistic way. As in life, sometimes it's the verbal and sometimes it's the nonverbal communication that conveys the best message. The actors are doing a great job with the material, and I'm now on episode 7 and the show feels like it's getting even more interesting.

I have to say, I'm pretty addicted to wanting to get to know these people more Details Edit. Release date October 10, United States. United States. Technical specs Edit.