It takes quite an acting performance to outshine Tom Arnold on the koo-koo front, but Overkill, the new comedy web series from 60Frames debuting this week has accomplished just that. You see, it’s his daughter Carrie (Allison Munn) who takes the bonkers cake in this one, a pretty young lady with a zesty penchant for serial killers.
Allison Munn has been playing crazy so long I’m starting to wonder what’s going on there. Yes, I remember her from That ’70s Show as Fez’s’ psycho-possessive girlfriend Caroline. Apparently so do Overkill creators Jeffrey Ventimilia and Joshua Sternin who incidentally produced That 70’s Show a few years back. Her scrunchy-faced brand of crazy really got going as Cindy in ABC’s short-lived half-hour Carpoolers, and it lends a polish to this otherwise risky storyline.
The story picks up at Episode 1: “Dead Man Walking” (above) with a quiet young retail clerk Henry Graham (Brendan Brandt) thrown in the slammer as the presumed Overkiller, a sadistic serial killer with an excessive OCD murdering style. Victims are beaten, stabbed, dismembered, guillotined, poisoned, strangled, microwaved and a few other odious executions. Poor unassuming prep Henry has taken the fall for this and finds himself counting down the days to inevitable doom on the electric chair.
First however, he faces another inevitable doom, a death row marriage to his serial killer stalking inamorata, Carrie. Accompanied by her disapproving father (Arnold) and her sobbing mother (Suanne Spoke) the prison wedding is just the beginning of this twisted family comedy.
