![]() ![]() We may buy neither his nor Snook’s American accents, but their scenes have a layered, thoughtful charge nonetheless. Episode aired TV-14 22 m IMDb RATING 7.4 /10 700 YOUR RATING Rate Animation Comedy Stan becomes obsessed with the rock band My Morning Jacket and follows them on tour. ![]() ![]() Siobhan’s got a real weaselly goober of a fiancé, Tom, played with jumpy energy by a terrific Matthew Macfadyen. Australian actress Sarah Snook plays younger sister Siobhan, a rising political operative (she’s sort of on the good side of things) who regards her family with a haughty moral and intellectual superiority, acting above the fray while refusing to acknowledge her complicity in her family’s misdeeds. Culkin gets most of the show’s zingers, and he tosses them out with a zippy backspin-ace comic relief, slimy and cruel, but ugh, cute, too. Other than Cox, who is genuinely scary as the addled and monstrous Logan, the most famous face on the show is probably Kieran Culkin as Roman, the screw-up playboy of the four Roy children. And props to HBO for hiring interesting actors rather than big names for big-names’ sake. Armstrong’s writing has elegant bite, torrents of blustery speech peppered with oddball asides that have an Iannuccian ring. So I’m loathe to praise the show, though there is plenty worth praising.
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