Rude Awakening

📊 Series Specifications

Network Showtime
Episode Runtime ~30 min
Total Seasons 3
Total Episodes 55
Original Language EN
Creator Claudia Lonow

Rude Awakening (1998)

Created by Claudia Lonow
⭐ 3.0 / 5 (6 votes) 🎬 3 Seasons 📼 55 Episodes 🏷️ Comedy 📡 Ended
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Synopsis

Unemployed alcoholic ex-soap-opera actress Billie Frank tries to go sober and become a writer but continues to struggle with her self-destructive habits; her relationships with other members of Addictions Anonymous, her neighbor Dave, and her mother Trudy are explored.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 Naked Again

Soap actress-turned-writer Billie Frank confronts her problems with her addictions. She finds herself in Addictions Anonymous (AA) following a DWI accident and an embarrassing interview on a tabloid TV show.

E2 Vagina

Trudy's contemptuous nickname for her pregnant daughter-in-law Tish is revealed. Dave drags Billie along to another AA meeting. Tish offers to help Billie by cleaning her apartment but Billie's tales of her past escapades with a woman alienate Tish.

E3 Lesbians on the Moon

Jackie and her new ex-con girlfriend move in with Billie.

E4 Filling the Wrong Hole

Billie starts overindulging in coffee, tobacco, and shopping.

E5 Black and Bitter

Billie tries to get out of coffee duty at Addictions Anonymous.

E6 Hello, This is Addictions Anonymous

Billie and Dave work the AA hotline.

E7 Don't Fuck the Stripper

Billie and Dave's relationship stumbles when Billie finds out Dave is sleeping with a stripper.

E8 Lucky for Me Her Breast Exploded

Billie regrets taking the lead in a movie when the script turns out to have gratuitous nudity. Trudy has an affair with a younger man.

E9 What Ever Happened to Billie Frank

Billie asks Jackie to go to the birthday party her parents are throwing, and Dave plans a surprise party for Billie.

E10 TV Mom

Billie visits her TV mom Colleen Woods.

E11 An Embarrassment of Ritch's

One of Billie's old flings returns, threatening her sobriety.

E12 The Cheese Stands Alone

Billie comes down from an acid trip days before getting her 60 day chip.

E13 That's Why They Call It Dope

Billie accidentally feeds Tish's Christian friends marijuana brownies at her baby shower.

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