Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Am I Missing Something?

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

The first 15 minutes were amusing and expectations lowered. Glad to see Cross and Arnet though. Left it on any way and suddenly I recognized the genius. Love season three.

This is a refreshingly hilarious comedy of errors. If you liked the humor of Arrested Development then this is the show for you! David Cross play the biggest liar ever and as everything crumbles under his lies, he just tells more of them. The whole story takes place in 14 days and backtracks over how Todd Margaret ends up in a huge mess. The cast of characters is wonderful, there is Todd's vile boss who spouts politically incorrect comments at everyone in sight, the trashy neighbor who keeps pawning her kids on everyone, Todd's mysterious employee who seems to be behind Todd's misfortunes and Todd's love interest who wants nothing to do with him. Supporting characters add to the mystery of Todd's predicaments.

I saw the Channel 4 Comedy Showcase series pilot episode and thought it was reasonably funny and I kind of hoped of all the pilots I saw in the series that it would be one made into a full show, and sure enough it was. Basically Todd Margaret (David Cross, also creator and writer) is the bumbling, not all intelligent American salesman who unintentionally makes himself sound like a good marketer, which he isn't really, and his "boss" Brent Wilts (Will Arnett) promotes him to head for London, England to sell the company's new line of energy drinks, Thunder Muscle. As soon as he arrives, it is disaster after disaster as he tries to adapt to life in this new environment, misunderstanding society ways, getting things wrong, and meeting British people almost as strange as he is. He has frequent visits with near "love interest" waitress Alice Bell (Sharon Horgan), his work "assistant" Dave (The Inbetweeners' Blake Harrison, replaced Being Human's Russell Tovey), and a few people in the flat he is renting, e.g. the pregnant slag. His hundreds of lies to "friends" and work colleagues make things a little worse, his attempts to sell the energy drink keep blowing up in his face, and his attempts to have any kind of social life also don't work. The opening of each episode opens with him in court for everything he has done wrong by the end of the series, whether there will be another one to conclude this storyline is unknown. Also starring Colin Salmon as Hudson, Being John Malkovich director Spike Jonze as Todd's Boss, Steve Davis and Kayvan Novak as Bomb Disposal Officer. I will be honest, I stuck with it from beginning to end, but I could tell, from the change in one or two cast members of the pilot episode, to the lack of jokes, that this wasn't going to be the next great sitcom I hoped it would. Okay!

This show is David Cross. It's a little of everything that you know him for in his past works such as Arrested Development and Scary Movie and so forth. If you like David Cross, you will laugh your hoo hoo off at this one. At first, I was skeptical about a show that was called Todd Margeret as I tend to judge books by their covers, and so was my room mate, but as soon as we watched the first episode we were hooked. I laughed so hard that I could barely see through the tears. The first six episodes are over now and I hope that this show runs for several seasons. So, grab a box of tissues, sit back and enjoy some sick and twisted comedy by David Cross and Will Arnet. Oh yeah, and don't forget your Thunder Muscle.