In Peacock’s new comedy “Laid,” the term “body count” suddenly becomes all too literal. AJ draws up “Ruby’s Sex Timeline,” a whiteboard full of photos, Post-its and yarn that tracks Ruby’s literal body count: every man she’s ever slept with, who now risk dying if the two friends can’t solve the mystery sooner rather than later. A few days ahead …
In “Laid,” premiering Thursday on Peacock, Stephanie Hsu plays Ruby, a self-centered woman of 33 who discovers that everyone she has ever had sex with is dead or dying, in the order she had sex with them. “He was a really good person.” “You used to call him Farty Scorsese,” AJ reminds her, while AJ’s cheerful hippie slacker gamer boyfriend, …
