Give credit where it’s due: Recovery Road is a reasonably realistic portrait of the recovery process for a high schooler, even as it arrives swaddled in the uniformly-attractive-performer package that characterizes so many shows on Freeform, the former ABC Family. Premiering on Monday night, Road follows Maddie (Jessica Sula), a fairly accomplished alcoholic by the time she’s semi-voluntarily committed to an addiction treatment facility, Springtime Meadows. Alternately charming and bratty—realism: what adolescent is not?—Maddie fights the program and surrenders to it depending on what mood she’s in, and those moods fluctuate wildly, of course.
