The Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town (2010)

Directed by

Kelly Makin

Genre

comedy

Country

Canada

Length

1 season, 8 episodes

Rated

NR

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 26 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A small town mayor is murdered. A group of eccentric residents deal with the crime while a new lawyer prosecutes a suspect and another resident hunts for the real killer. Death itself waits in a motel room for more people to die.

darkly comedicquirkyoffbeatsurrealslow-burnwrywhimsicalmorbidly funny

What happens

The Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town (or simply Death Comes to Town) is an eight-episode Canadian dark comedy miniseries that aired on CBC Television on Tuesdays between January 12 and March 16, 2010. The show takes place in a fictional Ontario town called Shuckton whose mayor has been murdered. As the Shuckton residents cope with the loss, a new lawyer moves in to prosecute a suspect, though another resident, unsatisfied with the evidence, tries to find the real killer. At the same time, a character who is a personification of death waits at a motel room for the latest Shuckton residents to die. The series was proposed by Bruce McCulloch during a 2008 comedy tour and developed by the ensemble into a dark-comedy murder mystery, a departure from their typical sketch comedy format. Inspiration for the series came in part from the British comedy series The League of Gentlemen. While the members of The Kids in the Hall play all of the major adult characters, a number of other comedic actors appear in supporting roles, including Dan Redican, Colin Mochrie, Wayne Robson, Leah N.H. Philpott, Susan Kent and Mike Beaver. The series was filmed in North Bay, Mattawa, and Sturgeon Falls, Ontario in the summer of 2009. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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