The set up is an interesting view of college life, including minority characters mixed in on equal footing with the more typical white college kids of the day. It's not really giving anything away to say this is a "how do we get rid of the body" type of story. And that's where it all derails and comes to a stop. We meet all these college friends on campus etc but then we have a long episode with a Kooky old lady who our hero gets mixed up with for no good reason and this basically lasts about 20 minutes and kills the episode. The lead character of the show doesn't have much to say much of the time and the rest of the time he's drunk, so it's hard to get under the character's skin and really care or see where this is all going.
The pacing is also deadly slow in spots, the shots are nice but the payoff to shots and scenes comes and goes yet we linger linger linger.
The show is basically serious, until the unfunny kooky old lady section, so it all ends up feeling like they didn't make either a seriously dark episode or a successful dark comedy one. Poorly written by James Bridges. Episode seems to be tracked with Herrmann music which helps but the music also fails to help pick up the pace or bridge gaps either.
It's a misfire. The wrap around segment again features Hitch as his mustachioed brother character.