No Good Deed
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What can I say?
I laughed, I cried, I gasped; it is my way.
Will they work as well as they did inDead to Me?
Ehhh, the jurys still very much out.
Theres no Jen and Judy just yet you know what Im saying?
Thankfully, I have enough faith in Queen of the Cliffhanger Liz Feldman to trust the process.
Also, it is my job, so theres that.
And you know what?
There are worse things to do than watch Luke Wilson and Linda Cardellini be terrible to each other.
Welcome to 500 Derby Drive in Los Feliz, everybody!
Well, Paul seems eager.
Lydia is having a tough time with such a big change.
So tough that she compares it to lopping an appendage off.
All of which is to say pretty tough.
Could it simply be the fact that theyre broke?
Lydia, an iconic pianist for the Los Angeles Philharmonic she played for Gustavo Dudamel!
apparently she hasnt touched a piano in years, afflicted with something that causes her hands to shake uncontrollably.
So all of their income has fallen to Paul.
After making his presence known at the open house, Mikey later finds Paul working in the garage.
Mikey reminds Paul that he helped you when you needed it most and then paid the fucking price.
Mikeys not the only person who shows up at the open house.
We meet our whole cast of characters there, each with their own set of secrets.
is a very much out-of-work soap-opera actor who has his own money problems.
(Lets not overlook that quick line about him going off his meds, by the way.)
Carla and Dennis love this house, but its out of their price range.
Isnt that so fun and cool and generous?
Dennis asks his wife.
Carla looks as if her head might explode.
But like all characters in a Liz Feldman production, these two are kinda fucked up too.
We later discover that Sarah is secretly still taking injections for IVF.
We also discover that Leslie is maybe an insane person.
Or, at the very least, Leslie makes terrible choices.
(We know it was Lydia and Paul on their open-house stakeout.)
And so she decides to do some light trespassing to … Also, how was she planning on getting up to the second-story window?
This plan is bad and dumb.
Maybe the Morgans will end up being their own agents of chaos.
Not for nothing, but her little hi to the light fixture broke my heart.
What does she know?!
Heres hoping they letMatt Rogerss Greg the Realtor do more than trade quips at an open house.
His quick, contentious interaction with Margo was perfect, and I want more of it.
Vanessa Bayer in a blink-or-youll-miss-it cameo during the open house, but for why?
