"I was your classic party girl binge drinker," she says.

As I got more into cocktails, I enjoyed Brown’s pieces for the Atlantic, which were smart and un-snooty, providing an education on spirits and cocktails along with the occasional contrarian hot take, such as 2012’s “Confessions of a Binge Drinker,” in which he gently mocked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s finger-wagging about the dangers of having more than five alcoholic drinks in “a short period of time.”

“You look at something like ‘Confessions of a Binge Drinker,’ I think I was a little bit in denial.

His father — described by Mr. Reid as a brooding, reclusive binge drinker — fatally shot himself in 1972.

O’Connor is scarcely recognizable as Johnny Saxby, a gay, brooding binge drinker toiling on his family’s Yorkshire farm, whose calcified heart is pried open by a Romanian migrant worker.