The new Netflix Series, NO GOOD DEED, is a dark comedy loaded with stars and interwoven storylines. Ray Roman and Lisa Kudrow star as Paul and Lydia Morgan, a married couple at the apex of this knots laden drama that draws us into the mystery of how their son was killed and their role in its coverup. The loaded opening show introduces us to a mixed bag of noisy neighbors and lookie-loos coming through the Morgan's handsome home just put on the market. Across the street are neighbors Margo (Linda Cardellini) a conniving, sex-pot and her husband JD (Luke Wilson) an out of work soap opera star. The next door neighbor, Phyllis (the incomparable Linda Lavin) the bossy know-it-all (who may just know it all). The Morgan's gay, "non-stereotyped" realtor is a riot as the ingratiating, irritating wheeler dealer. Two other couples vying for the Morgan's dream home are a lesbian power couple, a district attorney and a physician both driven with their own clandestine mission and a newly married couple who are still new to each other and expecting a baby with a meddling, overbearing mother-in-law in tow. Denis Leary plays Paul's brother just released from prison who's somehow complicit in the implicit cover-up of his son's slaying who holds some blackmailing cards. I'm not saying this entire house of cards makes for must-see TV, but it does have its share of salacious sexual dalliances, relationship tribulations, nefarious dealings and clever cliffhangers which are sufficient to keep you tuned in for the next thirty minute episode. Who will own the Morgan's beloved family home? Who's zoomin who? And, who knows what about the fatal shot that took out Paul and Lydia's troubled son. (By the way, what has kept the Morgan's older daughter away for three years?) I'm hooked enough to come back for another showing.
never could stand Ray Ramano, always felt like he was playing to the screen or playing the audience.
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