Maggie Lee Moore (Mary Holland) fled in terror while screaming for help. She ran down a dead end and her assailant approached. In the morning, Sheriff Jordan Sanders (Jon Hamm) and Deputy Reddy (Nick Mohammed) examined the corpse. When her name is mentioned, both look surprised. Cut to 10 days earlier.
Maggie Moore (Louisa Krause) screamed at her husband, Jay (Micah Stock), so loudly that the neighbor, Rita (Tina Fey) heard some of it. Maggie kicked Jay out of the house and threatened divorce and exposure to the police. Jay hired a goon, Mike Kosco (Happy Anderson), to scare his wife straight. Instead, Kosco killed her. Now Jay was in the crosshairs of Sheriff Sanders. However, he learned by happenstance that there was another Maggie Moore in town. What if she was murdered? He went back to Kosco to make arrangements.
There is no mystery here, just dark comedy that is not funny. There are a lot of cringy interactions, where people humiliate themselves in awkward conversations. The deputy frequently makes inappropriate comments regarding the sheriff's love life. The budding romance between the sheriff and Rita had all the chemistry of a flat soda. Jay Moore practically screams "I'm guilty" in every scene, though the sheriff happily goes down the wrong path. Micah Stock makes Jay amazingly pathetic and unsympathetic. Fine. However, he's somehow got money to burn on a hitman and payoffs but can't afford to keep his restaurant stocked with non-moldy food. Was moldy food meant to be funny? Why are there customers here when the mold is beyond obvious? Really, the sandwiches are polka dotted with mold. The normally smooth and suave Hamm is here a man without moves. Okay, so he's a widower and out of practice, but women are tossing themselves at him and he's got no game. Yeah, this was not the role for Dan Draper. Ditto with Tina Fey. Her character has lots of undesirable traits, from busybody neighbor to self-loathing. She says her ex-husband broke her, but she still has sex with him regularly. Is that dark humor? Why is the sheriff attracted to this woman?
The movie was inspired by the murder of two woman named Maggie Moore in Houston within a week of each other. Those murders were never solved and may have no relation other than the coincidence of the victims' names.
Skip this one.
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