Unlike its lead character, Peacock's Irreverent can't outrun its cliche premise and mediocre execution; ShaneRyanHere reviews:
will feel familiar to you, if only distantly: a streetwise American tied in with the Chicago mob gets unlucky, crosses some powerful people, and is forced to flee. He winds up in Australia, where another set of coincidences forces him to assume the identity of a reverend who was just about to start working in a small town in the middle of nowhere.
If that’s not the exact plot of some previous show, it’s at least a paint-by-numbers simulacrum of something we’ve seen in various forms, and you can almost imagine the moment when it was pitched, and how safe it must have sounded. You could even compare it to a dramatic series like—a lighter, romp-ish version of a very common story.
Colin Donnell stars as Paulo, a negotiator of sorts for the Chicago mob, and in the show’s second scene, a delicate discussion goes wrong when the moronic son of a prominent crime family busts into a dark parking lot, shooting everyone in sight. Only Paulo escapes, and he does so by bashing the son on the head with a brick, killing him instantly.
That’s the start of the entanglement, and the rest is pretty much as you’d gather; he meets the townspeople, tries his best to escape immediately, is stymied by events beyond his control, has to stay, starts becoming involved, cares, inserts himself into local criminal life to make money for a fake ID while the beautiful but suspicious cop slowly sniffs him out, etc. etc.
In short, it’s not a very ambitious effort, and while “ambition” can read as a bad word—the dreaded label of “trying too hard”—a lack of it leaves you in a sort of comedic purgatory where general competence quickly gives way to stasis. It’s the kind of show I watched almost hoping it would spiral downward, because that would make things easy.
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