The uniformly strong cast all deserve kudos, but Shipman stands out as the intelligent, talented but refreshingly child-like Salome she's a charming departure from the ubiquitous smug, smart-mouthed spawn of Nickelodeon. But Ordinary World gets better as it goes along, replacing its overage-adolescent goofiness with a surprisingly touching portrait of a guy just realizing that he's long outgrown his "Hope I die before I get old" fantasies. It would be easy to dismiss Lee Kirk's directing debut as a baby-man whine-fest if you were to bail halfway through, which is an ever-present danger with on-demand platforms. The catalysts are Salome's custom guitar, which Perry has been charged with picking up so she'll have it for her school gig, and former band mate Gary ( “Portlandia”’s Fred Armisen), a bad influence of such magnitude that he might as well have made his entrance on cloven hooves, trailing a cloud of sulfur.Īs the narrative pins click into place, Perry somehow finds himself hosting an out-of-control party in the presidential suite of the aggressively low-key Drake Hotel forgetting he's supposed to attend to his visiting in-laws crossing paths with his still-wild ex (Judy Greer), who's in town with client Joan Jett (as herself) and facing down the ghosts of rock ’n’ roll partners-in-crime past, including Gary and the utterly out-of-it Pete, played by the bizarre pleasure that is 2000s stalwart Kevin Corrigan. barely, at the family hardware store run by his younger brother.īut the plain fact is that he's Mister Mom, even if he does still look as though he does his hair with an eggbeater, and his 40th birthday-which also happens to be the day Salome is performing in the school talent show-is ground zero for his attack of middle-aged crazy. Perry tells himself (and everyone else who'll listen) that the band is just on hiatus and hey, he has a job. Now he's married and living in Queens with high-powered lawyer Karen (Selma Blair) and their two kids, preternaturally cool geek-girl Salome ( Madisyn Shipman), a blossoming musician, and her baby brother. Twenty years ago, Perry Miller (Billie Joe Armstrong) and his band were cool, edgy and quintessentially rock ’n' roll.
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