Deon Cole is taking an intense pivot away from comedy with BET+'s AverageJoe.
, and ET is exclusively debuting the trailer to give fans a taste of what to expect!is a darkly comedic, one-hour drama set in"The Hill" district of Pittsburgh. Things go terribly awry for blue-collar plumber Joe Washington when he discovers his recently deceased father, Teddy Washington, lived a secret second life. Said life involved the late tow-truck driver stealing millions of dollars -- and a Lamborghini -- from the Russian mob just before he died.
The two-minute trailer introduces viewers to Joe as a bloody and violent confrontation triggers a chain of events that force him and his close-knit circle of family and friends out of their very average and mundane lives into a life-or-death race against time to find the truth and the $10 million -- or as Joe's wife, Angela, says, the"10 million problems" -- his father hid away.
Cole stars alongside Tammy Townsend as Angela, Joe's loving wife who suffers from a painful illness and works shifts as a waitress to help to provide for her family; Malcolm Barrett as Leon Montgomery, a somewhat hapless hardware store owner and one of Joe's best friends who comes to his rescue when he's attacked by Russian mobsters; Cynthia Kaye McWilliams as Cathy, Leon's"ball-busting wife whose obsession with crime shows soon proves helpful.
The series also stars Michael Trucco as Benjamin"Touch" Tuchawuski," Joe's long-time best friend and a police officer with a vice for painkillers and heroin to help him get through his days; Ashley Olivia Fisher as Jennifer Washington, Angela and Joe's 18-year-old daughter who was recently accepted into Carnegie Mellon and is dating an appealingly innocent Russian boy, Dimitri; and Pasha Lychnikoff as Nicolai Dzhugashvili, the ruthless Russian mob boss who will stop at...
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