Linda Lavin’s ‘Mid-Century Modern’ Exit Is a Fitting Swan Song for a TV Icon

variety.com:

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic 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 the filming of the season, and Sybil is written off the show in the ninth episode.

In her time on “Mid-Century Modern,” she provided the best argument for viewers to keep watching, imbuing the particular, vintage form of the series — a multicamera sitcom — with joie de vivre and sharp wit.