‘Sprung’ Reunites ‘Raising Hope’ Stars Martha Plimpton and Garret Dillahunt: ‘It Just Felt Easy and Breezy’

variety.com:

Scott Huver Garret Dillahunt has the simplest and purest explanation for reuniting with his “Raising Hope” co-star Martha Plimpton and creator and executive producer Greg Garcia on new show “Sprung”: He just wanted to have fun.“I called [Greg] in the summer of the lockdown, wanting to have some fun again because it had been a while, and I remembered the last time I had such fun was with Greg,” Dillahunt told Variety at the premiere of the genre-bending comedy on Amazon’s Freevee streaming service (reflective of its eccentric tone, it was held at L.A.’s Hollywood Forever Cemetery). “I called him.

I said, ‘Buddy, life’s too short – we’ve got to have fun. If I’m not having fun, what’s the point? Let’s do something.’” That something turned out to be “Sprung,” a fresh, unconventional post-pandemic tale built around a group of prison inmates serving sentences for low-level offenses who are suddenly freed during COVID-19 due to overcrowding concerns.

Nominally led by Dillahunt’s reserved Jack — who despite being caught up in a minor pot bust, learned every trick of the criminal trade behind bars — the newly freed ex-cons, disoriented by their sudden release and the state of the locked-down world, form an unconventional family under the roof of Plimpton’s deliriously out-there Barb, mom to one of the inmates.

Soon, they start earning karma points by running elaborate schemes to trip up those who are abusing the fractured social system.“At the time when I wrote it, COVID was just hitting.