Our hero is Jimmy Keene , a onetime high school football star turned drug dealer. After a bust that also yields illegal firearms, Jimmy is sentenced to 10 years in prison, much to the chagrin of his ex-cop father .
Because he’s confident, hunky and a good listener, Jimmy gets an offer from a comely FBI agent . An accused serial killer might be sprung on appeal if somebody doesn’t draw a fuller confession out of him. “Not for all the fucking money in the world,” Jimmy says when it’s suggested he give up his reasonably cushy status in a reasonably relaxed hoosegow to transfer to a different maximum-security prison and go undercover to befriend a guy whose body count might number in the dozens.
A game of moody cat-and-mouse ensues, given added depth by expanding a story that easily could have been told at feature length. Part of that expansion includes regular intercutting to flashbacks featuring Greg Kinnear as Brian Miller, one of the original investigators who put Larry away. The flashbacks give us an introduction to Larry, whose pathology includes sexual perversion, extreme daddy issues and devotion to military reenacting.
It’s a competition to see which aspect of Jimmy’s storyline — his hollow redemption arc or his brilliant pas de deux with Larry — is least convincing, though it’s probably the one that requires his stern FBI handler to be unable to resist flirting with him.
Hauser, who has very effectively found unnerving vulnerability in real-life figures like Richard Jewell and Shawn Eckardt, presents Larry initially through key external traits like his reedy voice and bushy sideburns. Then he starts digging into both Larry’s pain and the pain he caused. Things become more complicated, raising several hours of questions about how much or how little Jimmy and Larry are playing each other and how this contrived friendship might be filling actual needs for both men.
TheFienPrint We’re watching the 1st episode now. Can’t believe the stark contrast in quality between this and that Maya Rudolph show (which is good in mostly all aspects). Was this shot on iPhone portrait? The acting also seems like a Lifetime movie. Hard to watch.
TheFienPrint Hard to get by the unintentionally hilarious dialogue by the female FBI agent and the must-have, adds nothing but written by a guy, take the waitress home sex scene. Tropes
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