Killing It is a comedy that will get South Florida, from the swamps to the garish mansions of Instagram stars, and Peacock fortunately launched a second season this August.
The sequence stars Craig Robinson (The Workplace, Scorching Tub Time Machine) as Craig, a down-on-his-luck Miami man making an attempt to strike it wealthy by rising noticed palmetto berries. When season two begins, Craig and his enterprise accomplice Jillian, a plucky Australian immigrant performed by Claudia O’Doherty, have received the state’s annual python looking contest (an actual factor) and used the money prize to begin their farm. Earlier than their American goals come true, they need to take care of social media influencers, self-help gurus, and big snails from Africa (additionally an actual factor).
The present is a critique of the trendy financial system’s nihilistic ethics. When Jillian is launched, she’s working eight gig-economy jobs and sleeping inside a cellular billboard she tows behind her automotive. At one level, a clan of felonious rednecks extorts Craig—not for money however to get on his payroll for well being advantages. Nearly everybody besides Jillian, the ethical heart of the present, is swindling one another to get forward.
This could possibly be tedious if it weren’t humorous, nevertheless it’s typically hilarious. And if it condemns mercenary capitalism, it might’t assist however love the weirdos who survive and thrive in its geographic coronary heart of darkness.