{"id":136297,"date":"2024-12-12T20:03:51","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T13:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=136297"},"modified":"2024-12-12T20:03:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T13:03:51","slug":"lisa-kudrow-and-ray-romano-in-netflix-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=136297","title":{"rendered":"Lisa Kudrow and Ray Romano in Netflix Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHalfway through Netflix\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/no-good-deed-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_no-good-deed-2\" data-tag=\"no-good-deed-2\">No Good Deed<\/a><\/em>, Lydia Morgan (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/lisa-kudrow\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lisa-kudrow\" data-tag=\"lisa-kudrow\">Lisa Kudrow<\/a>), a former concert pianist now embroiled in the madness of trying to sell her house, reflects on a repetitively heightened situation, sighs and says, \u201cI\u2019m so sorry and I can\u2019t believe this is happening again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<em>I Can\u2019t Believe This Is Happening Again<\/em> could have been a good title for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/liz-feldman\/\" id=\"auto-tag_liz-feldman\" data-tag=\"liz-feldman\">Liz Feldman<\/a>\u2018s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/dead-me\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dead-me\" data-tag=\"dead-me\">Dead to Me<\/a><\/em>, a murky comedy about female friendship and murder that managed to take a tenuously thin premise and elongate it over three seasons by virtue of wild and sometimes illogical pivots, plus the truly exceptional work from stars Christina Applegate and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/linda-cardellini\/\" id=\"auto-tag_linda-cardellini\" data-tag=\"linda-cardellini\">Linda Cardellini<\/a>. It was an exhaustingly paced show and, by its series finale, it put you through an emotional ringer as well. But if you had the patience for Feldman\u2019s dogged approach, it was rewarding.<\/p>\n<div class=\"review-summary-card\">\n<div class=\" lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column@mobile-max lrv-u-padding-a-125 u-background-color-honey-light \">\n<div class=\"lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column u-width-275@tablet u-border-b-1@mobile-max u-border-r-1@tablet u-border-dotted lrv-u-margin-r-150 lrv-u-padding-r-150 lrv-u-margin-r-00@mobile-max lrv-u-padding-r-00@mobile-max lrv-u-padding-b-125@mobile-max lrv-u-margin-b-075@mobile-max\">\n<h3 id=\"title-of-a-story\" class=\"c-title  lrv-u-font-family-primary u-font-size-34 u-font-size-38@desktop-xl lrv-u-line-height-small lrv-u-margin-b-125 \">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tNo Good Deed\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-font-family-accent lrv-u-font-weight-bold lrv-u-color-brand-primary lrv-u-font-size-16 lrv-u-display-block\">The Bottom Line<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-span  u-font-size-22@tablet u-font-style-italic lrv-u-font-family-secondary\"><\/p>\n<p>\tStrong performances carry a series overly proud of its own cleverness.<br \/>\n\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<strong>Airdate: <\/strong>Thursday, Dec. 12 (Netflix)<br \/><strong>Cast:<\/strong> Ray Romano, Lisa Kudrow, Linda Cardellini, Luke Wilson, Teyonah Parris, O-T Fagbenle, Abbi Jacobson, Poppy Liu, Denis Leary<br \/><strong>Creator: <\/strong>Liz Feldman<br \/>\n\t\t\t<span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThat makes <em>No Good Deed<\/em> more appropriately titled <em>I Can\u2019t Believe This Is Happening Again, Too<\/em>. Although it attempts a relentlessness that makes <em>Dead to Me<\/em> look as leisurely as <em>Somebody Somewhere<\/em>,<em> <\/em>the eight-episode series plays very much like a companion piece \u2014 one that reenforces a Liz Feldman brand in which gratuitously withheld secrets and jarringly abrupt twists are as much a piece of the comic rhythms as eye-gouging once was for the Three Stooges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tLike <em>Dead to Me<\/em>, <em>No Good Deed<\/em> is far too pleased with its own storytelling cleverness for its own good. When everything is meant to be shocking, it\u2019s impossible for anything to be shocking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBut also like<em> Dead to Me<\/em>, <em>No Good Deed<\/em> uses the dramatic underpinnings of its central situation to give juicy, emotionally varied material to a cast of actors making the most out of every predictably outrageous zig and zag. Get past the contrivances, and the comedy has some perceptive observations about the way grief and secrets can color a relationship, plus some very trenchant commentary about the sorry state of the Los Angeles real estate market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tLydia is married to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/ray-romano\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ray-romano\" data-tag=\"ray-romano\">Ray Romano<\/a>\u2018s Paul, and they\u2019re selling their 1920s Spanish-style house in Los Feliz. The abode, which doubled as Paul\u2019s childhood home, was where they raised their own children, and it\u2019s filled with memories both happy and very sad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe property is listed with excitable realtor Greg (Matt Rogers), who dreams of a quick sale and a hefty commission. There\u2019s a healthy market for it, composed entirely of couples harboring potentially relationship-crushing secrets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tLeslie (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/abbi-jacobson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_abbi-jacobson\" data-tag=\"abbi-jacobson\">Abbi Jacobson<\/a>) and Sarah (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/poppy-liu\/\" id=\"auto-tag_poppy-liu\" data-tag=\"poppy-liu\">Poppy Liu<\/a>), an attorney and a doctor respectively, are looking for a place to expand their life together after several failed rounds of IVF. Carla (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/teyonah-parris\/\" id=\"auto-tag_teyonah-parris\" data-tag=\"teyonah-parris\">Teyonah Parris<\/a>) and Dennis (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/o-t-fagbenle\/\" id=\"auto-tag_o-t-fagbenle\" data-tag=\"o-t-fagbenle\">O-T Fagbenle<\/a>) have known each other for only a year but are suddenly married and expecting a child, and they need a place that may have room for his devoted mother (Anna Marie Horsford\u2019s Denise). Former soap star JD (Luke Wilson) and his vivacious and desperate trophy wife Margo (Linda Cardellini) live across the street and they\u2019re eyeing the house as well, though she doesn\u2019t know how dire his career situation is and he doesn\u2019t know that she\u2019s having an affair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe above is information gleaned fairly early in the premiere \u2014 no spoilers of note. To tell you what <em>No Good Deed<\/em> is actually about, though, I\u2019d have to give away information revealed by the end of that first chapter (no later), so skip the next paragraph if you want to be wholly unspoiled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe essential early spoiler is that Paul and Lydia are still roiled with grief from the murder of their teenage son three years earlier. In the house. So far as the world knows, it was an unsolved crime tied to a string of recent break-ins in the neighborhood. Only Paul, Lydia and Paul\u2019s ne\u2019er-do-well brother Mikey (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/denis-leary\/\" id=\"auto-tag_denis-leary\" data-tag=\"denis-leary\">Denis Leary<\/a>) know otherwise. Soon \u2014 \u201cimmediately,\u201d really \u2014 Paul and Lydia are going to have to reopen the case and reopen the wounds, as they and every other couple learn valuable lessons about the importance of honesty and not committing murder to a healthy relationship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSo it\u2019s half whodunnit, and half whoboughtit. I\u2019d personally have called it <em>A Murder of Escrow<\/em>, but <em>No Good Deed<\/em> isn\u2019t awful either, because the show is (again like <em>Dead to Me<\/em>) about the ugly steps that good people are sometimes willing to take in order to stay alive or to get a turnkey house with a citrus garden, ornamental arches and purloined crime scene evidence in East Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<em>No Good Deed<\/em> is both mysterious, kinda, and zany \u2014 like if <em>You\u2019re the Worst<\/em>, <em>House Hunters <\/em>and Alfred Hitchcock had a baby. There\u2019s abrupt violence, people coming back from the dead, wacky misunderstandings, full-on breakdowns and plenty of speculation about how much over-asking it takes to get a murder house in this economy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIt\u2019s all pushed along by the aggressive musical score from Siddhartha Khosla (<em>Only Murders in the Building<\/em>, <em>Elsbeth<\/em>), who has made \u201czany mystery\u201d into his own personal brand, and by the aggressive direction from Silver Tree and (for two midseason episodes) Feldman, who prowl the central residence like they know every dark corner and every undocumented eccentricity in its floor plan. In several trademark POV shots, they even take us into the plumbing and electrical wiring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tNot all of the pieces are created equal. The mystery is the show\u2019s weak link, insofar as it takes a long time to decide what actually needs to be solved. Too many of the revelations defy even rudimentary logic and there isn\u2019t enough effective suspense to spackle over the plot holes. The resolution is unsatisfying, but not in a \u201cmaybe things will get set straight in a second season\u201d way. After the finale, there\u2019s perhaps one plot thread that remains open-ended, and I wouldn\u2019t think it\u2019d be enough to justify another season. Yet Netflix isn\u2019t calling it a \u201climited series,\u201d which is what it feels like.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWhat is fully satisfying is the tormented strain in Paul and Lydia\u2019s marriage and the way their distance plays out through the performances by Kudrow and Romano. Feldman had a perfect cast in <em>Dead to Me <\/em>and, once again, her leads have been expertly chosen. Kudrow and Romano have built their post-sitcom-supernova careers on playing characters who have been desperate for so long that their desperation defines them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tPaul and Lydia are estranged but completely co-dependent, and I spent much of the premiere wondering if the biggest twist was going to be that they were ghosts haunting a property they literally can\u2019t leave. Instead, they\u2019re shells of people haunting a property they can\u2019t bear to leave, and Romano\u2019s hangdog weariness and Kudrow\u2019s breaking-point fragility are both put to good use. They need each other, but sometimes they need to hurt each other. When the two characters have it out, all of the stars\u2019 TV-honed slick, comic professionalism gives way to raw, exposed nerves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tOf the two, Kudrow is the standout because of how good she is with the rest of the cast. Romano has one very funny, very implausible, very much forgotten subplot with Rogers. But Kudrow gets to have hilarious scenes with Cardellini, going full bore throughout, and some good material with Leary, who isn\u2019t miscast so much as his character is perplexingly underwritten, and with Chloe East as the couple\u2019s daughter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThere\u2019s good material in the secondary storylines with each of the prospective buyers, but their material amounts to a lot of little curveballs and very few big payoffs, contributing more to the overall chaos than anything truly cathartic. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Leslie\/Sarah storyline comes closest to feeling like it could be self-contained, since Jacobson and Liu have a good romantic warmth and they push the mystery along helpfully. Cardellini and Wilson don\u2019t need to have chemistry, since their marriage is a disaster (and their own dwelling is an expensive modernist nightmare), so they just get a good number of laughs \u2014 him with laconic Los Angeles\/Hollywood satire and her with a character whose sexual appetites border on predatory. Although both Parris and Fagbenle are fine, neither has a character with a defined enough voice to give their relationship the nuance it needs to fit into this puzzle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<em>No Good Deed <\/em>is probably easiest to enjoy between episodes three and six. The bold-faced twists are entertainingly ludicrous, the dialogue crackles and there\u2019s enough unspoken anxiety and resignation in Kudrow and Romano\u2019s performance to keep everything grounded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBy the closing chapters, as <em>No Good Deed<\/em> realizes it needs to tie things together, even the characters seem to recognize the silliness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAs Wilson\u2019s JD puts it, \u201cOh Lord. The revelations keep coming. And not the good kind.\u201d I tend to agree and not in the way he meant it \u2014 though it\u2019s impossible to be bored and hard not to be amused along the way.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-reviews\/no-good-deed-review-lisa-kudrow-ray-romano-netflix-1236084842\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halfway through Netflix\u2019s No Good Deed, Lydia Morgan (Lisa Kudrow), a former concert pianist now embroiled in the madness of trying to sell her house, reflects on a repetitively heightened &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=136297\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}