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April 20, 2023 – In the second season of Single Drunk Female, creator Simone Finch wanted to expand beyond Sam’s (Sofia Black-D’Elia) journey with physical sobriety and explore what comes next: emotional sobriety. “We wanted to talk more about what happens when you’re sober and you think that you have everything figured out,” she tells The Hollywood Reporter.
The result is something equally as messy for Sam as season one, just in some compelling (and cringey) new ways. And as audiences see, her friends and family are not immune to season two’s mess. As a result, the return of Freeform’s breakout hit — which debuted on April 12 and is airing weekly on the cabler (though the entirety of the season is already available on Hulu) — watches more in its second go like an ensemble show, where more screen time translates to more complication but also more depth.
Within that choice, the writers remind viewers that Sam’s recovery journey is in many ways a universal story, and one that can resemble the ups-and-downs, successes and failures of anyone who cares about her. “It is just about being human,” Finch says of Single Drunk Female‘s various leading and supporting character storylines this season. “But I think regular human stuff for a normie, let’s say, is one thing. Human stuff for an alcoholic is a whole other ballpark.”
