Round Two: So Help Me Todd

So Help Me Todd: Season 1, Episode 2 “Co-Pilot” (B-)

I’m debating whether I’m going to stick with this show, and I think I might if it was only half an hour rather than a full hour. It’s also just much sillier than I’d like, with Todd barely able to take himself seriously. He’s so technologically advanced, with a recording device at the trial rigged to ping him if particular words are said, but he also has absolutely no clue how to interact with other human beings. There’s so much illegal stuff that he does that he just dismisses as fine, but it’s definitely problematic. Sure, Lyle is obnoxious and is all about paperwork, but that’s needed because Todd doesn’t care about it at all, taking his mother’s “at all costs” attitude very far in order to justify anything he does. Now, Margaret does that too, pressuring her daughter to confirm someone’s presence at the hospital when that’s definitely not allowed, even if she pretended she wasn’t actually acknowledging it. She doesn’t seem to have any problem making Todd work his way up, not even bothering to tell people he was coming or giving him more than a closet and a footstool. She’s also dealing with the same treatment - and sometimes the exact same language - from her own boss, Alistair, who can’t see the value that she brings to the table. Both mother and son are over-the-top, and this show might be worth one more episode to see if it still emphasizes the absurd or starts to rein that in slightly.