Mario Gonzalez

The premise of this show is that there is a killer on the loose, and a couple stumbles upon him. Rather than act logically, they decide to extort the killer to make a podcast about the kills. Where this show shines is in the deeper character insights and motivations. The wife Ava suggests this endeavor, and the husband Nate refuses initially. However, when he learns that everybody in their friend group has an affair, and one of the friends, Ruby, likes her Paramour because "he's a go getter", he decides that taking the safe route is a risk to their marriage which was struggling for many reasons, and that this adventure into a podcast with a murder may bring some life (ironically) back into their relationship. But those moments into the crisis and problems of well to do in LA are blemished by the idiocy of many of the characters. The couple Ava and Nate (expecting a baby btw) never think through how to market their podcast, contingencies for the killer (Matt), nor even an alibi when their friends inevitably find out that there is more going on with the trio. It's not ridiculous that the killer (who has been busy) is a smart one to get away with his deeds for so long. It IS ridiculous that the couple never thinks through "What if he wants to make his own podcast?" "How do we explain Matt to our friends and family, and keep him away from them", to, and I'm not kidding, "Should I think more about a dog than my incoming baby?" Worse, the season includes many "dream scenes", where someone dies or starts having sex with someone, and then minutes later, you learn that was all fake. There is potential here. The core ideas of a killer, podcast, even crime con and the drama between the friends keeping secrets could make a great show. Instead, you get show full of characters that never think through the consequences of their actions, where you are constantly yelling at the TV that no one is that dumb, and you find difficult to take seriously because half of the time it's a dream scene anyway.