NO GOOD DEED

Lisa Kudrow and Ray Romano team up as husband and wife (Lydia and Paul Morgan) in this dark comedy, which has more tragedy than laughs. A few years after the death of their teenage son, they put their house on the market. Three couples are desperate to purchase it and start pestering the Morgans, but skeletons soon begin to come out of everyone’s closets and chaos reigns. I found the stereotypes of the pushy mother in law, washed up soapie actor, criminal brother, and gay guy (real estate agent) overdone and their acting a bit much. On the other hand, the performances by Kudrow and Romano were brilliant. They carried the whole series as grieving parents and apparently ad libbed some of their dialogue. It’s no ‘Dead to me’ (same creator and writer in Liz Feldman) but is a passable watch thanks to some twists and turns.