This installment was, I believe, supposed to be funny but was pathetic instead. Frankie Munoz appears in a thankless role as a former child star (a bit on the nose) who now exploits people, is suspected of murdering them, and is a tragic figure--and a comic figure. (Can you be both? Not in MHO.) The most interesting thing about it is the possibility that it was made in response to Covid-19 because, for a lot of their time on screen, the actors are not within six feet of each other, with a few notable exceptions. (The actors who are usually paired on the show are near each other most.) Notice that the main guest star's final scene is a one man show supposedly involving another person that we never see except as a distant shadow. If Covid was a reason for this staging, it proved to be a bad idea. It doesn't work. Most Inexplicable Character: Rain Wilson as himself. He only added to the showbiz in-jokes that are plentiful and unfunny enough already. Maybe he contributed the most inane and inscrutable in-jokes. ("Corrie thought that *he* should have gotten the starring role in 'Backstrom'".)
Review of True Crime
