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Alison Herman
TV Critic
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Courtesy of Hulu It’s a shame Hulu shared only half the first season of the streamer’s new comedy-mystery series “Phony” with critics in advance, because so much depends on how the show resolves its central source of suspense. The premise is what one character calls a “reverse cuckoo situation,” or at least a potential one: When Sonny (Sam Nivola), a high-school student in the Pacific Northwest, gets into a nasty car crash, he wakes up a week later to a surreal nightmare. His mother, Ellen (Connie Britton), has been replaced by someone else, and nobody around him seems to notice. Is he crazy, or is everyone else blind?
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