tenlegdragon

My ears only perked up over this because it's starring two people I tend to watch in anything.

It starts off with a cop who decides to moonlight as a safe house keeper (I don't know the proper terminology for person running a safe house) and a family who needs a safe house. There's a bad guy who might turn out to be batshit, or he might turn out to be justifiably provoked by the so-called innocent family... They don't commit to any thing in the pilot other that to let you know this is probably going to turn into a home invasion/ psycho on the loose type thing, by how strongly they reinforce "sketchy cop with backstory", "Psycho in the wild", "remote location", "No one can hear you scream". That last one is implied, but altogether, the suspense and mystery is strong in this one, and I'm pretty sure somebody will be murdered by someone they didn't expect to be murdered by.

The cop, not exactly disgraced, but retired, almost definitely might have some secrets he's keeping from his friends, his boss, his wife or all three.

The wife is almost suspiciously hot, and I feel there's some story there as to how that works... It is equally likely one of them is a psycho - it sort of has a vibe that makes you thing the season finale could wind up being Trauma (Colin Firth suspense thriller).

It's based somewhere British, I don't know where because I'm horrible at accent deviation, but it's nice to look at at least and nice to listen to. It looks like a valley where someone would find loch ness monster pics

This is my idea of a dramedy. The drama is there, you get the feel that Nash is just some Maron-ish sad guy pushing a boulder uphill, but the comedy is there too and it's good enough to make you laugh through a lot of the more poignant moments.

Also, I'd never actually seen H Jon Benjamin (Archer, Bob) in anything, but my ears perked up at his voice and it was a nice little "This is the guy?! This is what he looks like in real life?!" moment. The whole thing really is a slew of cameos back to back to back of comedians, a good enough bit of them I recognized from sitcoms, movies and stand up...

Jason Nash himself is maybe the only one I didn't know. No clue who he actually is, never seen him, but he looks like the @midnight guy, so I just went with that even though I know he's not Hardwick.

All in all, he's like Maron's goofier brother. If you like Maron, then Yay. Otherwise, maybe avoid.