Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Selling a house is stressful enough at the best of times. So spare a thought for Paul and Lydia Morgan, who have put their Los Angeles villa on the market knowing that its off-white walls contain their family’s darkest secret.That’s the premise of Netflix’s No Good Deed, an eight-part series that is billed as a comedy and boasts the 1990s sitcom nostalgia combo of Ray Romano and Lisa Kudrow. As it turns out, the show is more of an uneven hybrid of suburban whodunnit and semi-sincere relationship drama. Where we might have expected a satire of the cut-throat competition and bidding wars of the prime real estate market, this ends up giving way to a rather lukewarm mystery in which everyone seems to be either snooping around or hiding something.Without spoiling the specifics of what skeletons the Morgans have in the closet (or how literally that idiom applies), the story largely revolves around contractor Paul (Romano) and former concert pianist Lydia (Kudrow), who get caught between a rock and their plush place. Compelled to sell due to financial worries, they’re also concerned about what potential buyers — such as ever-vigilant district attorney Leslie (Abbi Jacobson) — might find. But every attempt to cover their tracks only brings more trouble.Running in tandem with the mystery are three subplots featuring the couples interested in the house. Across the street, fading soap star JD (Luke Wilson) and wife Margo (Linda Cardellini) wonder if a move to the other side of the road might solve their problems. Elsewhere, expectant newly-weds Carla (O-T Fagbenle) and Dennis (Teyonah Parris), and thirtysomething couple Leslie (Jacobson) and Sarah (Poppy Liu) search for somewhere to spend their lives together, only to realise how much they keep from one another.Collectively, these strands tell an overarching story about how even the most privileged lives and tightest relationships are belied by secrets and shame. But the show rarely delves below the surface of such observations or finds a way of getting its more serious points about grief and miscommunication to cohere with the jaunty mystery plot.As an estate agent notes in one of the opening scenes, a property’s appeal is often in the details. The same is true of TV. What we have here is a show built on solid foundations, but lacking the character to make us want to bed in.★★☆☆☆On Netflix now
