Panhandle

This is the perfect combination of mystery, drama and comedy.

The consistent plot line that allows the main characters to fully embrace their backstory is refreshing. The series is a combination of my favorite shows: The Mentalist, Sherlock Holmes, and Castle.

The writers should be commended for the creativity and overall execution of the perfect balance of all aspects of the show.

The actors owned the complexity of their characters and embraced the each twist and story line with ease.

I am excited about a series that has captured my attention and has me anticipating the release of the next episode.

Agoraphobic Bell Prescott (Luke Kirby) hasn't left his home since the murder of his wife Vida Perez Prescott (Lorenza Izzo) five years ago. He's living with his mother Millicent Prescott (Lesley Ann Warren). When he finds a body on his property, he calls 911. Speed-trap cop Cammie Lorde (Tiana Okoye) answers the call. She's the only one left standing on the police force after the town went under. It's a town full of quirky characters. Most of them hate Bell for abandoning his revitalization plan. County Sheriff Grant (Glenn Morshower) is supposed to be the one investigating local crimes. Cammie keeps investigating including Vida's murder with help from Bell and others.

It's quirky, but not actually funny. It has a murder mystery, but it's not actually dark. The characters are all likeable or fun. It's a Roku show. They don't have a long track record. I don't think it ever had a chance. Another studio may give this more rope. It's never anything groundbreaking. It's too bad but it's not a big lost.

This show is aiming for a very niche audience: our, 'detective with a burden' is battier than Monk, drunker than House, smarter than Sherlock, and doesn't seem to have a gun, although the charming Leslie Ann Warren playing his mother loves guns and is seen cleaning and oiling a vast collection of antique muskets and rifles which she uses to deter the advances of our tec's giant pet alligator. Our grounded sidekick with their own life is a single mom who is also the cop in charge of collecting enough speeding tickets to balance the city budget. A previous reviewer took issue with the scene where Bellwether (of course that's his name, but most folks call him Bell) smokes Toad but it's a bravura bit, and the show spent a bunch of FX money animating the horns and flies and stuff. As for the niche bit, it's written with the headiest post-peak-tv dialogue imaginable - "Do you prefer hefeweizen or muscadet with oysters?" is used as a distraction - and the metatext is the application of therapeutic practices in the damaged lives of our subjects, and how they are both going to make each other better people. Catch it now, there's no way in hell anything this far up my alley is going to be renewed.

SEASON 2 PLEASE!!

This show is absolutely off beat - and wonderful! And absolutely NOT PC.

Florida is a character in its own right. Imagine that! And there is a beloved alligator that roams around doing what beloved alligators do.

It's a story of love - until certain things morph and it turns to hate - in a most comical and logical way.

I started watching this because of Luke Kirby and rapidly found myself enjoying everyone involved. Kirby is his usual perfection in playing a handsome and deeply flawed man who truly only wants the best for the people in his life that he loves. And his beloved alligator.

If you want something offbeat and smart - this is your next binge.

Funny, complex interactions between two different personality types I did not feel i needed a degree in psychology to understand the natural empathy between these characters.

A pleasure to watch. I certainly hope there will be a Season 2.as the story must continue.

Love the Florida scenery, the filming makes one feel that they are there, partaking of it all.

Like I stated earlier this story must continue for those of us who invested our time and emotions and caring into it. I am tired of getting interested in a story only to have the power that be decide to end it.. What is the point of watching and liking it.