Really not sure of the acting (which isn't a good sign) Christina Hendricks, Retta (who cries at everything) and Mae Whitman - their banter often feels forced, though attempting to use urban lingo has its moments of chuckles ('faded...lit'). Also has many moments where a character just ... looks...
Reno Wilson is the cop husband who starts helping them ridiculously easily, Matthew Liddard is the cheating husband who then says he has cancer (that, for some reason, isn't enough for Hendricks to kick him out - even after she finds out he's had four affairs), Manny Montana is the hood, who occasionally I can understand, Allison Tolman the secret shopper who starts blackmailing them (full marks to Q who identified her from Fargo Season 2). Quite liked James Lesure as the dogged detective.
How did they get the cut up body out of a 30 square mile rubbish site which had 24 hour security and had police dogs all over it? By... yeah - I don't know. In this way, it flits from one far-fetched idea to another, dropping plots that aren't convenient (Whitman's drugs charge, for example) through seventeen hours, or however long it all is, often to completely irrelevant French songs (not that I have anything against French songs) until finally SPOILER the baddie gives Hendricks his gun for the second time to shoot someone and thankfully, she shoots him. I should think so. What an idiot. At least it finished, though.
Also with June Squibb.
That very familiar, mournful classical score that opens episode four is Beethoven's Seventh, Second Movement. Finale 'Love and War' by Fleurie sounds suspiciously like an Adele song. Liked Boards of Canada - 'Dawn Chorus'.
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