Welcome to Me

Welcome to Me (2015) is a deadpan comedy-drama you can watch online on iFILM, with Kristen Wiig playing Alice Klieg — a woman with borderline personality disorder who wins the lottery and immediately uses the money to buy her own talk show. She moves into a casino, stops taking her medication, and begins broadcasting daily live programs about herself, her past, and her obsessions.

The show is a disaster by conventional standards and somehow attracts a following anyway. James Marsden and Jennifer Jason Leigh play the producers trying to figure out what they've agreed to. Tim Robbins is her long-suffering therapist. Nobody quite knows how to handle Alice — including Alice.

Director Shira Piven and writer Eliot Laurence treat the material without condescension: this isn't satire of mental illness, it's a character study of someone who is genuinely difficult and genuinely searching for something. Wiig commits completely, making Alice funny and uncomfortable in equal measure. Stream Welcome to Me (2015) on iFILM.