misfit

In a 2022 memoir, “It’s Not Where You Start… It’s Where You Finish,” Brown recalled feeling like a misfit in her small town.

Like Clarence in “It’s a Wonderful Life,” Gabriel is a bit of a woebegone misfit in a long coat who needs assistance from the humans he is supposed to be assisting.

Was “Boots” going to be “Private Benjamin,” some graceless sitcom about a misfit soldier?

He skipped his college graduation from Suffolk University in Boston last year to move to San Francisco—the kind of city where “brilliant misfits have a place,” he said—and founded an AI finance startup.

It’s all combining in a season of valediction for the eternal misfit whose life and career recently got the documentary treatment in “Let the Canary Sing” on Paramount+.