“I wasn’t born into a family so much as I was hatched,” is how Tracy McMillan has described her origin story. Her mom was a “20-year-old Minnesota girl with a really bad drinking problem,” and her dad was a “Billy Dee Williams type who committed crimes for a living.” Mom dipped out early on, which meant Dad was her sole parent when he wasn’t incarcerated in one penitentiary or another. McMillan has filtered many of those details through a comedic lens in the new Hulu series “UnPrisoned.”
Starring Kerry Washington and Delroy Lindo, the dramedy centers on a woman who re-connects with her father after he finishes his most recent prison sentence and comes to live with her and her teenage son in their leafy Minneapolis neighborhood.
Paige (Washington) is a single mother and therapist who makes upbeat social media videos with bromides like: “It all starts in childhood — parent and partner are just one letter off — how you got parented is how you get partnered.”
