Lisa Kudrow hailed for carrying Netflix’s ‘flimsy’ new comedy No Good Deed in first reviews

Netflix’s latest comedy, No Good Deed, has didn’t impress critics regardless of its star-studded ensemble that includes Lisa Kudrow, Ray Romano, and Linda Cardellini.

The eight-episode sequence, which was launched on Thursday (December 12), follows a pair — performed by Kudrow and Romano — who record their ritzy Los Angeles Twenties Spanish-style villa in the marketplace in hopes of beginning a brand new life. The itemizing instantly attracts a number of households within the property, satisfied that the idyllic residence will resolve all their issues. Nevertheless, the couple are compelled to maintain hidden the damaging secrets and techniques that linger within the residence if they’ve any hopes of promoting it.

No Good Deed additionally options Broad Metropolis’s Abbi Jacobson, Hacks breakout Poppy Liu, comic Matt Rogers, Legally Blonde star Luke Wilson, and Rescue Me’s Denis Leary. However even with a powerful solid, the brand new sequence from Useless to Me creator Liz Feldman has confronted a lukewarm reception in early critiques, with TVLine describing it as “flimsy” and “shaky.”

Kudrow has been singled out for her efficiency as Lydia Morgan, with The Guardian’s Rebecca Nicholson writing that the Pals alum “carries this twisty, binge-worthy thriller.”

Carol Midgley of The Occasions agreed, going as far as to say that Kudrow “saves this comedy.”

“Kudrow reveals her expertise for doing each the sunshine and the very darkish, and that she is greater than able to holding the display screen alone,” she wrote of the actor.

Selection’s Alison Herman discovered the present’s “overreliance on twists” to “be counterproductive.”

Nevertheless, “within the parlance of its central business, as soon as the eight-episode season settles into its story, one can recognize the great bones beneath all of the pointless fixtures,” she added.

In the meantime, Saloni Gajjar was stronger together with her criticism of the present, writing for the AV Membership that “No Good Deed is not well worth the funding.”

Whereas the sequence is at first look “promising,” she argues that it “slowly falls aside as a result of it’s — gasp — fairly boring, with half-baked scripts, a scarcity of suspense, disjointed arcs that align too late, and surface-level character growth.”

As for the comedy’s ending, the Los Angeles Occasions’s Robert Lloyd mentioned that it felt just like the present “runs out of breath.”

“After the primary mysteries attain their climax, the sequence jumps ahead six months to an ending so tidy and beneficiant and mawkish that it verges on parody,” he mentioned.

No Good Deed is offered to stream on Netflix.