Quirky comedy drama

A spin-off from the acclaimed 2018 film of the same name, which used the buddy comedy format to explore US racial politics. The eight-episode series begins with one of the movie’s central characters, Miles, being arrested for possession of drugs on New Year’s Eve. When he’s jailed for five years, his partner Ashley and their young son Sean go to live with his mother

Rainey (Helen Hunt, right with Jasmine Cephas Jones) and half-sister Trish (Jaylen Barron, far right) in their chaotic household, which leads to all sorts of tensions. Low-level criminality is presented as quirkily charming, there are musical interludes and Ashley even breaks the fourth wall to describe her situation in rap.

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