Another Poor Decision

IFC has picked up The Increasingly Poor Decisions Of Todd Margaret for a second season.  Word is writer and lead actor David Cross is even planning a third. This was sort of inevitable.  Each episode starts with Todd in the dock, his charges being read.  Everything is leading up to his trial, but the first season ended well before it.  If IFC cares about the show at all, it has to at least let Mr. Margaret catch up to the present.

In a way it's a dirty trick.  The show, which I didn't love, seemed to be leading up to something, but the first season turned into a tease.  Some cable shows canceled after one season--John From Cincinnati, The Comeback--at least attempted to give a sense of closure. If Todd Margaret had been canceled, it would have been in the middle of things. But maybe that's what they should do.  It would be a nice, absurdist send-off for a character, and a show, that always seems to be temporizing.