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Stanley Tucci does consistently great work as one the industry's most watchable actors. He should have done himself a favor and passed on this atrocious series. With the exception of his death row cellmate, very well-played by Atkins Estimont who serves as a kind of Dr. Watson to Tucci's death row kind of Sherlock Holmes, the other cast members should all be on death row with quick execution dates for butchering their performances while Tucci and his friend deserve pardons for putting up with them. Tucci's character solves mysteries from his cell with his friend's help, and does so pretty well even though his cases are lame because of the show's very poor writing. The main case involves an attempted murder run amok by a non-criminal couple (a pillar of the community as the local clergtman and his wife) who let a mistaken identity child porn situation get ridiculously out of hand. It is neither funny nor credible. I would rate every performance except for Tucci's and Estimont's and Dylan Baker's somewhere between zero and less. I never put spoilers in reviews despite wanting to do so here to keep people from watching this mess, but after forcing myself to watch all 4 episodes mainly to see what would happen to Tucci as his execution date draws near I decided not to. The rest of the plot deserves a zero for stupidity and the wrong kind of silliness, as does the direction and overall script. I never thought Stanley Tucci could make a bad movie or show, and he does not do so here because he is fairly credible as a jailhouse detective. However, even he cannot save this dog which needs to be put out of its misery. I suggest paying attention to other reviews similar to mine before committing 4 hours of time better spent on better movies and series.

This movie could have been very good because the cast and acting are solid, with excellent cinematography. The story is so ridiculous, however, that no one could ever believe it and dramas don't work well with stupid scripts. Allison Janney, who plays a former CIA agent, is always worth watching and so are the other actors even though their dialogue is fairly limited. Jurney Smollett also does fine given the poor script she has to work with. It is impossible to describe how absurd the story is without including too many spoilers, so I suggest seeing this if you are an Allison Janney fan with about an hour and forty-five minutes with nothing else to do.