At the beginning of March, it was announced that Canadian sitcom
Kim s Convenience, which revolves around the Kims, a Korean Canadian family who run a suit-all-your-needs store in Toronto, would not be returning for a sixth season. Saying goodbye to your favourite show is never easy, but the news was especially difficult for its followers to accept because a year before, both seasons five
and six had been given the green light.
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Movie review / 'Breaking News in Yuba County' (MA) ***and a half
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MA, 96 minutes, in cinemas now
★★½
Insignificance has never been part of Allison Janney’s repertoire. In
West Wing, she kept the White House press corps enthralled as the President’s press secretary, CJ, and in
I, Tonya, she made malevolence funny as the venomous mother of the scandal-prone ice-skating champion, Tonya Harding.
But in
Allison Janney plays Sue Buttons, a woman anonymous to the point of invisibility.
As Sue Buttons, a California wife with a cheating husband, she needs self-affirmation tapes to remind herself she exists. Shop assistants ignore her, as do her co-workers at a call centre, and she’s the only person who ever remembers her birthday.
By the time we join
Breaking News in Yuba County’s Sue Buttons (Allison Janney), she’s having a pretty rough day. It’s her birthday, her coworkers forgot, the cake she was forced to buy herself reads “Happy Birthday Suc!” and her husband Karl (Matthew Modine), a banker, is on the phone with some mysterious woman who asks if he’s stroking his cock right now. He isn’t not in that moment but he’s still a scumbag. Sue feels overlooked, unappreciated, unimportant. Those feelings fester. Elsewhere, Karl s brother Petey (
Westworld s Jimmi Simpson) attempts to leave a life of crime behind following news that his live-in girlfriend (Samira Wiley) is pregnant with twins. The bored but funny business owner who hired him (Wanda Sykes) needles Petey about forming a crime partnership, while the mobbed-up Mina (Akwafina) pressures him to get Karl to launder money.
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Breaking News in Yuba County is a 2021 American comedy-drama film directed and co-produced by Tate Taylor, from a screenplay written by Amanda Idoko.
After her husband goes missing, Sue Buttons (Allison Janney), an under-appreciated suburban wife, gets a taste of being a local celebrity as she embarks on a city-wide search in Yuba County to find him.
In an effort to prolong her newfound fame, she stumbles into hilarious hijinks as her world turns upside down, dodging a wanna-be mobster (Awkwafina), a relentless local policewoman (Regina Hall), her half-sister (Mila Kunis) a local news reporter desperate for a story, and her husband s dead-beat brother (Jimmi Simpson), who all set out to uncover the truth behind the disappearance.
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