Daniel Fienberg
Jun 23, 2023
Tammy Townsend, Malcolm Barrett and Cynthia Kaye McWilliams also star in this darkly comic thriller about blue-collar Pittsburgh residents running afoul of the Russian mob.
BET+’s new darkly comic thriller Average Joe may or may not be better than Netflix’s Ozark — I never loved Ozark, but maybe you did and so be it — but the gap between the two shows isn’t as great as the inevitable gap in coverage would seem to suggest.
Average Joe and Ozark are both highly derivative pieces of violent, ethically twisty pulp made somewhat distinctive by their regional specificity, irritatingly washed-out cinematography and sitcom-honed leading men repressing their natural timing to play a tamped-down everyman...
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