AIRDATE Friday, Aug. 25 (Netflix)
CAST Kathy Bates, Aaron Moten, Elizabeth Alderfer, Tone Bell, Dougie Baldwin, Elizabeth Ho, Chris Redd, Betsy Sodaro, Nicole Sullivan, Michael Trucco
CREATORS Chuck Lorre and David Javerbaum
The title of Netflix’s Disjointed, a comedy about the oddballs working at a marijuana dispensary, is a pun. It also could be a one-word review for a likable show that attempts to break from its multicam constraints in ways that are admirable, if not always successful.
Created by Chuck Lorre and David Javerbaum, Disjointed is largely set at Ruth’s Alternative Caring, a Los Angeles facility dedicated to the myriad uses of weed and populated by an assortment of genial, frequently high employees, or “budtenders.” Proprietor Ruth Whitefeather Feldman (Kathy Bates), once a fearless legalization outlaw, is now facing…
