‘Swingtown’s Molly Parker Joins HBO Pilot
Today brings good news for TV viewers who loved CBS’ canceled 1970s-era drama Swingtown and only wish the best for the show’s cast now that the series is kaput. Star Molly Parker, also known as sweet Susan Miller to us incurable TV swingers, has been added to the cast of HBO’s forthcoming pilot The Wonderful Maladys.
The potential series is attracting lots of attention in large part because it stars Buffy the Vampire Slayer alumna Sarah Michelle Gellar. A comedy, the New York-based show follows the (mis)adventures of three parentless siblings who have one of those always interesting dysfunctional relationships.
Parker is set to play therapist Mary Malady, the older sister of Gellar’s character Alice, who herself is the older sister of Nate Corddry’s (United States of Tara, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip) graduate student Neil.
If the show is well received by network executives and gets a full series pickup, it sounds like it could be a winner for Parker and her fellow pilot cast members. Now I dare you to say “Mary Malady” out loud ten times in a row as fast as you can. Love that name!
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