Amy Jellicoe, the scrambled heroine of HBO's comedy-drama "Enlightened," has an explosive, tragicomic, mascara-streaked meltdown at her workplace in the series' first scene. Then she takes refuge in Hawaii for several months at a New Age-y treatment center to get her head back together.
Now she's telling herself that she's recovered and newly empowered. Off her meds, with her manic-depression in full swing, she's back to reclaim her job as an executive for her corporation's Health and Beauty department.
But more than that, she's ready to change the world.
"You can change," she proclaims. "And you can be an agent of change."
By turns funny, heartbreaking and rapturous, "Enlightened" is a portrait of a damaged woman who sets her sights on being an activist and not a sad joke; a woman who may be delusional or, instead, have found herself some valuable answers worth sharing with the human race — or maybe both. (It premieres Monday at 9:30 p.m. EDT.)
As played by the splendid Laura Dern, Amy is endearingly quixotic in her mission as a would-be eco-warrior, while cringingly pathetic to behold when trying to "clear the air" with the married boss with whom she had a disastrous affair, or when trying to master something as simple as a fax machine.
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