A house sale gets complicated in No Good Deed, a fast-moving series that pinballs from farcical exchanges to pained recriminations and back again.
Making a killing buying or selling real estate starts to sound all too literal in this urgent black comedy, where the sale of a Los Angeles home upends the lives – and more specifically the lies – of both the buyers and the sellers. The panic of making the best deal starts to infect the cross-section of characters, starting with vendors Lydia and Paul Morgan , empty nesters whose 1920s villa-style residence in the desirable Los Angeles suburb of Los Feliz is this show’s accelerant.
There’s a serve of screwball to the connivances and near-miss calamities, but the tone really pinballs. It goes from farcical exchanges to pained recriminations and back again, mostly without a middle ground. The plotting eventually finds gravity in the depths of Lydia and Paul’s foundering relationship, which needs more than a healthy seven-figure sale price.
, is the natural choice for this project, but too few of the animation studio and writer pairings he’s assigned stack up. Too often an episode’s visuals ape the style of the game that inspired them, or they duplicate the source’s mechanics. There is a surplus of futuristic fighting and dying., with Arnold Schwarzenegger as thwarted monarch becalmed in time, is the rare engaging story that covers a great deal of ground in its 15 minutes.
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