No moment encapsulates the conflicted charm and weirdness of "Laid" as aptly as when its not-quite-a-heroine Ruby shows up at the funeral of a guy named Brandon who she recalls dating for “like, a second” out of curiosity. But this premise saddles Ruby with a tangible answer to the question that’s plagued anyone who’s repeatedly struck out at dating – …
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, …
