Real Estate Comedy ‘No Good Deed’, Starring Ray Romano and Lisa Kudrow, Has Good Bones Beneath the Extra Additions: TV Review

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Alison Herman TV Critic An open house event for an upscale home already resembles a game of “Clue”: affluent people from various walks of life, gathered together in a large, attractive space.

All that’s missing from this ready-made setup is a dead body, a gap easily filled by creator Liz Feldman in the Netflix black comedy “No Good Deed.” Feldman previously created “Dead to Me” for the streamer, another series about affluent, amoral residents of Southern California. (Christina Applegate’s character was even a real estate broker.) If “No Good Deed” recycles some elements from that earlier project, including the presence of Linda Cardellini as a woman who’s not telling the whole truth about her backstory, the show at least benefits from their dependable nature.

In fact, “No Good Deed” features such a solid setup — and such a stacked cast, led by Ray Romano and Lisa Kudrow as a couple looking to sell their Los Angeles villa — that its overreliance on twists can be counterproductive.

In the parlance of its central industry, once the eight-episode season settles into its story, one can appreciate the good bones beneath all the unnecessary fixtures.