Sybil Schneiderman, the breakout character on Hulu’s new sitcom “Mid-Century Modern,” is discussed, amply, before she is seen. “The woman could probably make it another 20 years just on cottage cheese and spite,” her son Bunny (Nathan Lane) declares. But when she finally appears, it’s an event. Bunny has moved his two best friends into the Palm Springs home he shares with Sybil, and, she declares, it’s good that he won’t be alone when she’s gone. “Which won’t be for a long while!,” she declares, her voice suddenly crescendoing into a scream.
That was not to be. Linda Lavin, the TV legend who plays Sybil, died in December, during
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