Supporting actors are TV's secret weapon. Let us count the ways
Eighteen minutes into the first episode of Hulu's "High Fidelity," something big happens. Until now, we've been learning about Rob (Zoe Kravitz), the series' central character, and her romantic past, at mid-tempo and moderate volume.
Enter Cherise, played by Da'Vine Joy Randolph, one of two employees at the record store Rob owns, a substantial vision in stripes. "What up, babies?" (pronounced "babeeeez"), she says, then profanely attacks the music that co-clerk Simon (David H. Holmes) is playing, takes it off, puts on Dexys Midnight Runners' "Come On, Eileen" and dances energetically in the aisles.
Like Jack Black's Barry, the character in the "High Fidelity" film whom Cherise reboots, she is large and loud and frighteningly passionate. While Rob, leading a semi-comic depressive tour
