‘Laid’ Review: Sex, Death And One of the Year’s Best Comedic Characters

Stephanie and Zosia Mamet in Laid James Dittiger/PEACOCK

In 2022, actor Stephanie Hsu made a big splash as Joy/Jobu Tupaki in the hit indie action-comedy Everything Everywhere All at Once, earning herself a Best Supporting Actress nomination at the Academy Awards. Of course, three of her co-stars were also nominated, including Jamie Lee Curtis in the very same category, so mathematically, at least one of them was going home empty-handed, and Hsu drew the short straw. Now, at last, Stephanie Hsu has landed a great comedic lead of her own. Hsu is to die for in the new high-concept romcom Laid, giving us one of the year’s most fun and memorable comedic characters.

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Ruby Yao (Hsu) is a professional party planner with a habit of blowing through people’s lives like a storm, indifferent to the mess left in her wake. She’s a romantic, but not in a healthy way, relentlessly........

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