Stand-up comic and actress Fortune Feimster is again with one other Netflix comedy particular. “I knew pretty early on that Jax was the one,” she says within the trailer for “Fortune Feimster: Good Fortune,” reflecting on the early days of her romance with now-wife Jacquelyn Smith. “So I called my friend and she said, ‘Oh, you’ve gotta go to Big Sur’ – and no, that was not my nickname in high school.”
Filmed on the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, “Good Fortune” sees the “Mindy Project” alumna divulging her experiences with courtship, engagement, and marriage itself, warts and all. “Expanding on her confessional brand of comedy and how she’s different than what meets the eye,” the synopsis teases, “Fortune reflects on her own good fortune, including some big life events she’s experienced the last couple years like falling in love with her wife and the extravagant proposal she planned that didn’t go as expected.”
The trailer reveals Feimster recalling how she orchestrated stated proposal: “How ‘bout some strawberries?” she asks. “But let’s dip them in chocolate, otherwise it’s fruit.”
Feimster is among the many particular’s exec producers.
“Good Fortune” comes two years after the comic’s earlier Netflix title, “Fortune Feimster: Sweet & Salty.” That comedy particular sees Feimster inform her coming-of-age story, recounting her experiences as a Girl Scout, debutante, and disqualified swim meet champion.
Aside from her function as Colette Kimball-Kinney on “The Mindy Project,” Feimster’s appearing credit embody “Office Christmas Party” and “Kenan.”
“Fortune Feimster: Good Fortune” premieres October 25 on Netflix.