Creator: David Cross
Director: Alex Hardcastle
Writers: David Cross, Shaun
Pye
Starring: David Cross, Sharon
Horgan, Will Arnett, Blake Harrison, John Fortune, Amber Tamblyn, Zahra Ahmadi,
Madison Masters, Stewart Scudamore, Steve Davis, Colin Salmon, Sara Pascoe,
Janeane Garofalo, Spike Jonze
If there’s one thing that
David Cross and Will Arnett are great at it’s making complete asses of themselves.
That’s the whole point of David Cross’s television series “The Increasingly
Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret”. They’re different kind of asses, to be sure,
but what a couple of a**holes!
The show begins with Arnett’s
new CEO character barging into an office workplace demanding a go-getter for a
sales project he’s launching in England. He overhears Cross’s character yelling
at someone on the phone. “That’s my guy!” Except Cross wasn’t yelling at
someone on the phone, he was repeating a self-help tape about how not to be a “pussy.”
So David Cross goes to England to sell energy drinks.
Cross, as the titular
character, is so good at being the guy has says and does all the wrong things,
especially in a foreign country. Of course, he claims to be from Leeds
originally, an idea he got from spotting a copy of The Who’s Live at Leeds
album in someone’s music collection. It’s not just saying the wrong things
though, but also his insistence on never going back on any of his lies that
just ends up landing him in even more trouble.
Each episode begins with a
magistrate declaring charges against poor Todd Margaret. The charges are
slightly different each time, having to do with some of the unfortunate things
Margaret is about to do. The first four episodes also have an epilogue about
Margaret’s cat, which he left home with a giant bowl of food and no one to
check in on him in Portland, OR. I laughed despite myself to see what became of
the cat.
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