Natasha Rothwell swaps her White Lotus spa garb for a neon, air traffic vest in the new How to Die Alone trailer. In the two-minute clip, released Tuesday, Rothwell’s Mel is out of gas: She “sad-twerks” as a coworker sings “Happy Birthday” and can’t find the energy to chant “Woman King,” when the same coworker attempts to cheer her up. “Here’s how I see me: I’m broke, my family thinks I’m a lost cause, my love life is a joke, and the punchline is I work at an airport [and] I’m afraid to fly,” Rothwell says in the trailer.
The half-hour comedy series, set to stream on Hulu , follows Mel (Rothwell), a JFK airport employee who has reached a plateau in her career and has yet to pursue her dreams. Not until a near-death experience restores her desire to live. As a nurse attempts to identify Mel’s emergency contact number after a deadly accident, the nurse begins to read out Mel’s phone number instead.
“You’re your own emergency contact?” the nurse asks. Mel simply sighs. The cast of the Rothwell-created series includes Conrad Ricamora ( How to Get Away With Murder ), Jocko Sims ( New Amsterdam ), KeiLyn Durrel Jones ( Time After Time ), Bashir Salahuddin ( South Side ), Jaylee Hamidi ( Supernatural ), Michelle McLeod ( Don’t Talk to Me ), Melissa DuPrey ( Relative ), Chris “CP” Powell ( Detroiters ) Arkie Kandola ( The Package ), and others.
The Insecure actress will also star in the third season of The White Lotus , according to Variety.