Upon seeing the title, I was immediately reminded of old 80s/90s genre spoofs like Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood. And I thought I remembered hearing something about Bell doing a parody of the wino-woman-witnesses-a-murder genre of films and books that have been so popular lately.

We decided to give it a shot and it was not at all what we expected through about the first four of eight episodes. There were several scenes that could potentially be construed as parody — the handyman and the mailbox, the multiple casseroles, the passing out in the rain — due to their outright ridiculousness but, overall, the show seemed to be trying to take itself a little too seriously to tell for certain what was going on and classify it as a farce or parody.

Tonight, we started the second half but I decided ahead of time that, yes, this is the parody I was looking for. Once I did that, it became patently obvious just how much a parody this was. Nothing nearly as overt as a Wayans Brothers film but still and all the same. I was laughing out loud, uncomfortably, but it was still really bad.

So so bad.