When working on sobriety, it often helps to see how others are dealing with it – sometimes to laugh at ourselves, sometimes to see the seriousness of it, or to check out folks who are worse off than we are.
- Comedy/TV series/Netflix: Loudermilk (3rd Season launched January 2024)
Loudermilk — he’s one of those characters everyone calls by his last name, like Quincy or Columbo — is a former music journalist turned maintenance man and a former drunk turned sobriety meeting leader. (This feels like a self-created position; he is not, seemingly, accredited.) He has left in his wake a couple of books whose titles speak volumes: “Negative Creeps” is one, after a Nirvana song; “All You Need Is Love and 500 Other Songs to Kill Yourself To” is another. Although he declares himself done with writing, Loudermilk is still full of opinions, about music and other things, and he shares them, irascibly, without hesitation or regard for the interest of the person he’s talking with, or at. (from the LA Times)