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A teenager wakes up after a car accident to discover his mother has been replaced by an impostor. Tuesday on Disney+
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The darkly funny Phony gives the doppelganger-mom genre the series-length treatment
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A kid wakes up one day to discover that his mother has been replaced by a doppelganger. It’s a surprisingly common premise in horror; the Austrian film Goodnight Mommy and its 2022 American remake come to mind, though perhaps most relevant is the recent Jessica Chastain vehicle Other Mommy, itself an adaptation of the 2024 novel Incidents Around The House. And now Hulu is dropping a series-length exploration of the same basic idea with Phony.
What sets Phony apart, for one, is the age of its hero. Unlike the frightened children from the aforementioned stories, Sonny Cooke (Sam Nivola) is a teenager. He’s on his way to have sex with his girlfriend for the first time when he crashes his car into the woods. When he wakes up in the hospital, he’s greeted by friends and his adoring mother/school principal—except Ellen (Connie Britton, making for a cross-seasonal White Lotus reunion) looks ever so slightly different now. Nobody else clocks the change at first, but Sonny knows there’s something off about her, a suspicion confirmed when she fails to return one of his signature unspoken acts of affection. So he sets out to figure out what happened to his real mom, all the while leery of what this impostor wants from him.
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