Peacock's bingeable but pointless dark comedy casts Kaley Cuoco and Chris Messina as a couple who make a murder podcast. TIME reviews BasedOnATrueStory
dreams have given way to a selling-apartments reality. She and her girlfriends—all of whom are having affairs—meet regularly to guzzle wine and dissect serial-killer media. Ava’s husband Nathan was once a tennis champ, but an injury relegated him, years ago, to the role of onsite pro at a country club. Now he’s being demoted in favor of a younger, more popular colleague. Ava’s kid sister Tory , who lives with the couple, loves to flaunt her carefree hookups. Their home on L.A.
The backdrop is, in other words, standard middle-class, early-middle-age dissatisfaction. But it’s the crumbling house that catalyzes the Bartletts’ escape from their stultifying routine. A handsome, conscientious new plumber walks into their lives—and, motivated by a lead in the case of a hometown psycho killer known as the Westside Ripper, the trio hatch a plan to make their own true-crime podcast together. The project will test their courage and commitment to one another.
The casual juxtaposition of real rape and murder with entertainment and leisure is, the show correctly points out, objectively creepy. But
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