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Julia
Watching Julia Child at work and play is a four-course banquet of sheer joy
Thursdays, HBO Max
FRIENDLY WARNING: DO not watch Julia on an empty stomach. You’ll want to savor every sumptuous dish prepared by legendary French Chef host Julia Child, grandly and giddily embodied by the wonderful British actress Sarah Lancashire (Happy Valley). It also helps to have an appetite for living, because few series are so generous in serving up a heaping platter of pure joy.
“All you have to do is plunge in,” Julia tells her rapt is a four-course delight, dramatizing with creative liberties her growing pains in the low-budget world of fledgling public TV. Her pioneering experiment in on-camera culinary arts, born of her revolutionary book , makes Child an unlikely media star with her ungainly frame and high voice, punctuated by sudden barks of laughter as she navigates her primitive set.
