Just when we started wondering what was up with Sarah Michelle Gellar’s HBO pilot, The Wonderful Maladys, announced last September, word comes of more casting: Nate Corddry (Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, United States of Tara) and Molly Parker (Deadwood, Swingtown) will play her siblings. The show, written for Gellar by screenwriter Charles Randolph (The Interpreter, The Life of David Gale), revolves around three dysfunctional adult siblings who lost their parents at an early age. Gellar is the middle child, previously described by Randolph as having "a kind of zealous immaturity — like a drug addict with a to-do list"; Corddry is the baby, now a bookish grad student; Parker is the eldest Malady, now a therapist.
I’m loving this family for multiple reasons: I’m a Gellar fan, who thinks she knows a good TV show when she sees it (and belongs on it). Corddry makes me believe that the half-hour show will be a dark comedy. And Parker has me betting that it will actually get a series order. (Also, don’t they all sorta have the same nose and cheekbones?)
Are you psyched?
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I like all of these actors, but they don’t look like siblings AT ALL.
I’m glad Sarah is back on TV, all her film work since the high point of Cruel Intentions has sucked.
SMG FOREVER!
Brody, look at some real life siblings and you’ll see they don’t always look perfectly alike. I think they all look just right. Hopefully, the show will be as good as the cast (is so far)…
Sounds Interesting
I luhhhhuve Molly Parker so I will be watching.
I love Nate Corddry since the Daily Show and then Studio 60, so I can’t wait to watch!
YAY! I’m totally psyched. I was also wondering what had happened to Maladys.
Oh, man. SMG is so good developing a TV character and bringing you in. Can’t wait to see her on TV again!
But, uh, these actors do NOT look alike. It’s a great lead cast, anyway. And I’m already picturing them as a family!!!
Go, SMG!
Does anyone know when the pilot is going to be shot???
Love Molly Parker (Swingtown deserved to LIVE dammit!), but I was actually thinking for a long time that Lipstick Jungle’s Kim Raver would have been the perfect older sister to SMG. They just look alike and I think Raver is a seriously underrated actress in my book.
Molly Parker is awesome. This is great news. Someone needs to find her other “Swingtown” girls new jobs – Miriam Shor and Lana Parrilla need work too! Corddry is a riot as “Gene” on “United States of Tara”.
This show has to be better than “East Bound and Down” which, with the exception of Katy Mixon, just sucks.
I was wondering about SMG’s show. This is exciting. I loved Swingtown (and was made fun of for that) and thought Molly Parker was great. I never saw a single episode of Deadwood unfortunately. I’m looking forward to this show. HBO needs to build itself back up a little bit.
The only person worth watching is SMG who are this other dorks.
JS – You clearly didn’t see “The Air I Breathe”. That movie, my friend, did not suck.