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Maybe Sunshine is a "coming-of-middle age" story about an aging rock queen who builds a new band (Radiana) from scratch after the disastrous break-up of her last band a decade earlier. She must learn how to tweet, text, twerk, hash-tag and trend, just to keep up with the new kids. She has to start from scratch, playing out crappy gigs, dealing with nymphomaniac, drug addict band mates, a quirky Colombian manager with 5 jobs, his mysterious bodyguard/translator, a Pee Vampire, debauched frienemies, a depressed male gigolo, a coke-head record label executive that uses bands as tax write-offs, vapid models, clueless heiresses, stalkers, gawkers and shysters. She must do all this while navigating the new world of older ladydom; like peeing when she sneezes, getting winded from one flight of stairs, amassing as much weight as she does debt, managing her sagging assets, and worst of all: facing her own irrelevance. Lisa handles her new reality with all the grumpiness and sarcasm of a Gen X ...

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    • Author: caif
    It's an appealing idea, especially now, when the entire planet seems to be run by 22-year-olds: if you're a bit older -- say, 40-something -- do you still have a place in rock 'n' roll, which is, after all, music by and for young people? Is it even possible? Even for a former 'contender'?

    The show is about a bottom-level outer boroughs band, made up of oddballs and losers, that seems to be the only thing ex-rock star Hammer has going for her career-wise, and she struggles to hold the band, and herself, together... even though there is absolutely nothing to suggest they are going anywhere.

    This is a very well-written show, well-directed, and very well acted by the entire cast, top to bottom. Hammer is particularly strong in the lead, as the middle-aged "everywoman" trying to reclaim her place in the business. She's got a dry, understated quality, and knows how to use stillness for comic effect. She's the center of the hurricane, our identification point, who deals with the clueless young screwballs by just stopping and staring... Funny stuff.

    And the show is just bursting with comic ideas, many of them kind of nasty, which makes them even funnier.

    To quote something you middle-aged folks will remember: "Try it, you'll like it."
  • Series cast summary:
    Lisa Hammer Lisa Hammer - Lisa 7 episodes, 2015-2016
    Melissa Patterson Melissa Patterson - Missy Riggle / - 5 episodes, 2015-2016
    Niabi Caldwell Niabi Caldwell - Nina Volt 4 episodes, 2015-2016
    Edgar Felix Edgar Felix - Maury 4 episodes, 2015-2016
    Jonathan Forte Jonathan Forte - Jonno Gunz 4 episodes, 2015-2016
    James Glayat James Glayat - Jimmy Bomz 4 episodes, 2015-2016
    Andrés Restrepo Andrés Restrepo - Diego Diego 4 episodes, 2015-2016
    Louis Cozza Louis Cozza - Louis 'Thunder' Ahmet / - 3 episodes, 2015-2016
    Dillon Heape Dillon Heape - Cody the Stalker Intern / - 3 episodes, 2016
    Darin Itdhanuvekin Darin Itdhanuvekin - Model 3 episodes, 2016
    John N. Wlaysewski John N. Wlaysewski - John from Late Cambrian 3 episodes, 2016
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