Will Arnett kills it in cop spoof ‘Murderville’

nypost.com:

Netflix comedy series premiering Thursday (Feb. 3).The concept, adapted from the BAFTA-winning BBC3 series “Murder in Successville,” posits Arnett as Terry Seattle, a chief homicide detective straight out of a ’70s-era cop drama (mustache, bad wardrobe) who works for the City Police in an unnamed metropolis (and “no, I’ve never been,” he says of Seattle.

Terry’s partner, Lori Griffin (Jennifer Aniston’s face graces her memorial plaque in line with the celebrity theme) was murdered 15 years ago, and he’s kept her desk exactly as it was that day (it’s full of cobwebs, a hideously moldy sandwich and the skeleton of her pet rabbit … Terry isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed).

What Terry can’t seem to keep is a steady partner, so his boss/estranged wife, Chief Rhonda Jenkins (Haneefah Wood), brings in a steady line of new Detectives-in-Training.

These are played each week by different celebrities — Conan O’Brien, Annie Murphy, Marshawn Lynch, Sharon Stone, Kumail Nanjiani and Ken Jeong (who’s on way too many TV shows) — who are not shown the script, so they improvise their way through the action.The stars play themselves though no one recognizes them; in each episode, they “investigate” a murder with Terry — and, in the final scene, confront three suspects (“The Accusation”) with that week’s guest star dramatically revealing who he/she thinks is the killer in a reality-show kind of way (underscored by the “serious” music used in reality shows for the “big reveal”).It works, for the most part, and any “this is going nowhere” moments are kept to a minimum.