

A blunt, grieving widow is forced to plan her husband’s funeral with a total stranger: her estranged gay son’s gay assistant. As they fumble through grief and their strange, darkly funny circumstances, buried secrets and long-held resentments surface, but their partnership becomes an unlikely conduit for connection, laughter, and healing for this mother and her unexpected surrogate son.





Allison Janney carries this as Diane, a blunt widow fumbling through grief with her son's assistant, Jamie. Andrew Rannells holds his own as Jamie, and their darkly funny partnership is what makes the story click, even if the plot feels a bit familiar. People just love the balance — the humor lands, the pacing feels perfect, and it's all anchored by those two performances. It's a crowd-pleaser that mostly works.
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