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| Levy and Ortega as siblings in very hot water. |
The title says it all. Dan Levy, who was so engaging in the comic series Schitt's Creek, is less so in this new Netflix offering wherein he plays a closeted gay pastor who inadvertently gets swept up in the activities of a violent Russian/ Italian drug gang smuggling cocaine into the country via a bull's testicles. One wonders what the writers were smoking, drinking and snorting when they devised the storyline.
Starring along with Levy are Laurie Metcalf as his mother and comedian Taylor Ortega, who as his sister steals every scene and is the only reason to watch it. The twisted plot, which stretches the viewer's believability as well as patience to grievous limits, also involves Metcalf as an obnoxious, possibly mentally ill, harridan running for mayor of their unnamed small town. The two stories barely connect but occasionally crash into one another, adding to the total mayhem and chaos that defines the show.
It's not funny, unless you find train wrecks funny. There is a fair amount of men kissing men, people screaming at one another, foreigners with guns kidnapping people, and some really triggering music, so if you like all that then you'll like this.
I watched all eight episodes which mercifully were each just about half an hour long, hoping things would improve. They didn't. A second season is being threatened. I will not be tuning in.
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