No Good Deed2024

What gives No Good Deed extra oomph is the ongoing murder mystery that unravels slowly over the eight episodes. The action flashes back and forth through time and the suspects are many. The ultimate culprit is a great plot twist that I, for one, did not see coming. And, thanks to Kudrow and Romano, the finale hits hard emotionally.

"No Good Deed" (Dec 2024, 8 eps, 35-min, Netflix) This is a drama/comedy with that being an 80/20 split. It's a top notch cast headlined by Lisa Kudrow renowned as "Phoebe" in "Friends", with the rest of the cast being a mix of solid A- and B-list tv actors, and they all turn in really good performances. As other reviewers here intimate, this could've/should've been great but I don't think the showrunners/directors were at the top of their game, and that's why you see some reviewing it as boring, because yes the pacing was uneven though I didn't find myself hitting the FF button as with so many others these days. The basic plot is a homicide in the principals' home they try to deflect since they're selling it, and the cast of characters vying to buy the home while trying to dig into the homicide. It's at times weird and zany so it can be fun to watch. This season's story was concluded so that tells us the showrunners were told not to expect multiple seasons. So, if there is a second season, it would almost have to be an entirely different plot with different characters and maybe a few different actors, so it'd morph into an anthology series but I think Netflix would have to make a multi-season commitment for that and that's pretty rare.

No Good Deed sparkles with terrific performances. The cast are the very best wallpaper available: together they cover up almost all of the cracks.