- Network: IFC
- Series Premiere Date: Jul 8, 2015
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The Spoils Before Dying requires some time and in return offers some rewards.
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Spoils takes its murder mystery too seriously. While this isn’t as dour an affair as Ferrell and Wiig’s recent Lifetime debacle, “A Deadly Adoption,” a little bit more nuttiness would make this mini more a treat and not so much an endurance challenge.
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There are, admittedly, some funny bits strewn throughout--Michael Sheen delivers one of the better moments--but even at a little over two hours of actual screen time minus commercials, this feels as padded as Ferrell’s well-stuffed wardrobe.
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Most characters are reduced to a single joke repeated endlessly, under the assumption that the repetition of words or phrases constitutes comedy.
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Despite the occasional laughs, though, this is still a one-note premise stretched excruciatingly thin.
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This three-hour miniseries from Will Farrell and some of his Saturday Night Live buddies is a send-up of 1950s film-noir that more closely resembles another classic Hollywood product: an overinflated boob job.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 10
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Mixed: 2 out of 10
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Negative: 4 out of 10
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Jul 19, 2015
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Jul 9, 2015