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Tired, stale jokes delivered by unlikable, one-dimensional cardboard cutout characters, with a liberal helping of humor that wants to be absurd, but reads like the scriptwriters just wrote random words on the wall and then threw darts at it. Take a plot outline that could be described in detail in three sentences or less, add in some casual racism and bigotry, stir until it's completely muddled, and you have Deadbeat in a nutshell.

The best thing about this show is when the credits end, and I'll be going out of my way to avoid anything by Miller, Heller or Labine, as the writing, directing and acting are universally awful. Hands-down the worst of Hulu's "Originals". They should probably just stick to buying in quality content from overseas and pretending it's "Original", if this is the best they can manage to buy in for themselves.

Let's ignore the plot and mediocre acting, such as they are. (It's said the script was only 32 pages long, and honestly I'm surprised it surpassed 32 words.)

This is lazy filmmaking at its worst. It's the story of a sailor with so little seamanship he should never have left his local marina on a day sail, let alone circumnavigated the globe. The pacing is poor, the character simply impossible to believe, and the plot painfully predictable.

And then we come to the ending. I shan't say what happens, but this mediocre film is blown out of the water by its diabolical, absolutely execrable ending.

Give it a miss. You'll thank me.