Smallscreen - The Starter Wife
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Debra Messing extends the popular USA miniseries and joins the USA lineup with a two-hour premiere.
The show is knee deep in social satire and a skewering of Hollywood hypocrisy and superficiality. Molly Kagan (Messing) navigates her self-absorbed ex (David Alan Basche) and a 7-year-old daughter who wants to keep up with her rich friends.
Molly swears off men and struggles to make her own way by turning her private journal into a humor column. A writing instructor Zach ( Hart Bochner) invades her mind with lustful thoughts and a journal thief takes her bread and butter one fateful night.
Messing dazzles in fantasy sequences that cast her as everything from Elizabeth I to Young Frankenstein.
Chris Diamantopoulos returns as Rodney, an interior designer who becomes romantically entangled with a closeted macho star. Judy Davis reprises her Emmy-winning role as Joan, a recovering alcoholic longing to reunite the passion of her marriage with her husband (Ronny Cox). Joan's rehab work brings her into the seductive snare of a sotted Oscar-winning actor (Daniel Gerroll).
TV information
| Showing: | 2008 |
| Channel/Network: | USA Network |
Cast
| Debra Messing... Molly Kagan | |
| Hart Bochner... Zach McNeill | |
| Chris Diamantopoulos... Rodney | |
| Danielle Nicolet... Liz Marsh | |
| Reggie Austin... Devon Marsh | |
| James Black... Felix | |
| David Alan Basche... Kenny Kagan | |
| Bar Paly... Lola (6 episodes, 2008) |
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