Linda Holmes

And the fact that she's just so proud of it.

You know, we caught them, we burned them.

is very funny.

And of course, the creator, Katie Dippold, is a very funny writer.

She came out of Parks and Recreation and The Heat and some other things I really like.

And it's funny because there is a lot of Parks and Rec in this show, in the DNA of this show.

The kind of bureaucracy of local government and the effort to kind of keep a town running when everyone is mad at you all the time is very Parks and Rec.

With this really strange overlay of horror and curses and all that stuff.

And eventually, you know, we mentioned Betty Gilpin and Hamish Linklater, who show up in a kind of a flashback episode going back a very long time in history to kind of get at how this whole curse started and how the founder of the town was involved and everything.

Yeah.

I enjoyed that a great deal.

And one of the things I like about it is that it is a very serialized show that has episodes that are still constructed as episodes.

Like, there is that flashback episode.

There is an episode where Tom, the mayor, goes and stays overnight at the inn.

There is a wonderful episode where Patricia is kind of menaced by this boogeyman that they have in town.

Yeah.

And she's wonderful in that episode.

And it is kind of set apart.

You know, they never completely disconnect from that serialized narrative, but they construct the individual episodes as episodes, which is something that I think when you can do it well, it has benefited a lot of shows from, you know, the bear has benefited from that.

This show benefits from that.