Though she never goes anywhere herself, Mel (Natasha Rothwell) spends her days working at New York’s JFK Airport, helping people travel to exciting new destinations.

At 35, she’s trying to figure out what in the world she’s going to do. She’s single, she’s broke, her family is disappointed in her. She’s aware of the irony that, although she works at an airport, she’s afraid of flying. She also works with her ex Alex (Jocko Sims); she ended the relationship as a precaution more than anything else—disappointment has become her norm. To pass the time, Mel imagines herself as other people, be it successful-looking travelers at the airport or performers at a bar— anything to distract from the misery of her life.

When a near-death experience involving crab rangoon and a falling cabinet happens to Mel (on her birthday, no less), it throws her whole life upside down, and pushes Mel to make a decision: After nearly four decades of misery, it is time to turn her life around.

Refreshingly, How to Die Alone—the new series from Hulu and the Onyx Collective now available for streaming—doesn’t take Mel on some grand Eat, Pray, Love-style adventure to find herself. She doesn’t quit her job and........

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