This luxury hotel-set dramedy about a bored married couple who unearth clues about a missing boy is wildly entertaining – and puts you in mind of Mike White’s smash-hit 2021 series
isit any luxury holiday destination this summer and you will find a significant percentage of the clientele gripped by tales of brutal murders, mysterious disappearances and complex criminal conspiracies. This is nothing to do with their idyllic surroundings, of course – it is simply because true-crime entertainment has become one of the sick and twisted public’s foremost methods of relaxation.
In The Resort , this fantasy becomes a reality – kind of. Created by Andy Siara, best known for the Andy Samberg time-loop comedy, and executive-produced by Mr Robot’s Sam Esmail, the show stars Cristin Milioti and William Jackson Harper as Emma and Noah, a pair of holidaymakers whose marriage has soured in the most mundane ways: he comments on her bad breath, she rolls her eyes at his proclivity for napping and does internet quizzes on whether to leave him.
Interspersed with the surprisingly fruitful escapades of these drunken detectives are a series of flashbacks to Christmas 2007, where the phone’s owner, Sam , is holidaying with his parents and his girlfriend. After skateboarding into a palm tree, Sam is rescued by Violet , a fellow guest, who superglues his head wound together. The pair then embark on some romance-sparking sleuthing of their own.
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