“The Wrong Missy” is a rom-com, but it’s really a ’90s Jim Carrey movie merged with one of those slob-goes-on-a-corporate-retreat comedies that has starred everyone from Bill Murray to Adam Sandler to Will Ferrell. Here’s what’s new about it: The hypomanic Jim Carrey figure is a woman — Missy, played by the wild-card comedian Lauren Lapkus, who in this movie is like a grenade of happy insanity tossed into the middle of every scene. Lapkus, who looks like a hellion version of Illeana Douglas, is best known for playing Susan Fischer on “Orange Is the New Black” and for one arc on “The Big Bang Theory” (she was also quite good in Zach Galifianakis’s “Between the Ferns”), and in “The Wrong Missy” she’s an antically wired, rubber-faced, this-is-your-brain-on-media satirist-anarchist.
In the hilarious opening scene, she shows up at a restaurant in Pippi Longstocking pigtails and proceeds...
In the hilarious opening scene, she shows up at a restaurant in Pippi Longstocking pigtails and proceeds...
- 5/13/2020
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Susan Fischer (Lauren Lapkus) may have been one of Litchfield's most gullible guards on Orange Is the New Black, making her an easy target around the prison. When she isn't listening in on the inmates' phone calls, she's fighting off office advances, both from coworkers and from the prisoners alike. Her ongoing dating chronicles were at the forefront of her character's storyline, especially with one of her biggest admirers: warden Joe Caputo (Nick Sandow).
Fischer, innocent as she is, often gets hazed by her fellow correctional officers as the newest member and one of the only women on the team. Interestingly enough, Caputo seems to be at the head of the hazing. Fischer is often encouraged to be tougher on the women, strictly referring to them as "inmates." This conflicts with her deeper belief that they are all equal, all human, all with the right to be treated with respect.
Fischer, innocent as she is, often gets hazed by her fellow correctional officers as the newest member and one of the only women on the team. Interestingly enough, Caputo seems to be at the head of the hazing. Fischer is often encouraged to be tougher on the women, strictly referring to them as "inmates." This conflicts with her deeper belief that they are all equal, all human, all with the right to be treated with respect.
- 7/27/2019
- by Zack Peter
- Popsugar.com
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