Kat Dennings’ casting in How May We Hate You? is a great call by ABC and the producers, as it’s a role that should feel familiar to audiences.
Dennings is great at playing the whole “service with a begrudging smile,” role quite well, and if she gets an equally strong male lead cast at her side, ABC might have a great comedy on its hands.
Dennings’ Ellie sounds somewhat similar to Max, the character she played in 2 Broke Girls, and while that series was never universally acclaimed by critics, it definitely had its dedicated fans.
If not, she still has that YouTube Red series with John Cena and the Hulu pilot Dollface, although her involvement in this new project may imply the latter pilot is not moving forward.