![]() And Kristen Schaal’s innate and idiosyncratic quirkiness fits her role as Number Two in this off-kilter show with its Wes Anderson-lite beats and aesthetic, as if they were made for each other. Ryan Hurst as the devoted Milligan gets most of the best lines (at least in the first two episodes, which were all that were available for review) and captures the steadfastness beneath the weirdness. When viewers grow up to watch him as Buster Bluth in reruns of Arrested Development, their minds are going to be entirely blown. ![]() ![]() Mr Benedict, a kind of trustworthy Willy Wonka figure (though he does suffer from narcolepsy and cataplexy and is liable to pass out at moments of high tension, so you have to keep an eye on him) is played with perfectly blended verve and compassion by Tony Hale. They are all fantastically good – I still don’t know what the US puts in the water to create a new crop of devastating child actors every few years – but Kessler, in the tricky part of wordy, furious, babyish yet preternaturally adult Constance is extraordinary. The children are played by, respectively, Mystic Inscho, Emmy DeOliveira, Seth Carr and Marta Kessler. ![]()
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