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Got the Brooklyn Nine-Nine blues? Killing It is the cure. The brilliant minds behind B99 bring Craig Robinson, who you might have loved as Darryl Philbin in The Office and Doug Judy in Brooklyn Nine-Nine into the well-deserved spotlight. This comedy (watch trailer, runtime: 2:31), like many others, has sharp social insights, but this one has a surprising ecological backstory too.

FUN FACT: The Floridian everglades have been overrun by Burmese pythons, once imported as exotic pets only to be abandoned once they overgrew their cute phase, turning into 90 kg predators that will eat anything they can swallow — which is a lot of things.

How does that factor into the show? Killing It follows Craig (named after Robinson), a working-class protagonist and victim of the failures of hyper-capitalist America, who hopes to fulfill his dream of buying a plot of land in the Everglades to start a saw palmetto farm, the fruit of which he can sell to pharma companies. But not even the bank he works at will take a chance on him and give him the loan he needs.

Things change when Craig finds out that the state will pay you to hunt down this invasive species, which can earn you a whopping USD 20k prize. He pairs up with his kooky Uber driver Jillian (Claudia O’Doherty) in an effort to clinch the prize, given to whoever hunts the most snakes each year.

We’re not surprised that the comedy is top notch, but it is interesting how the writers reflect the predatory nature of the American economic system within that framework, where even just one medical emergency is enough to trap you in debt. Despite the social commentary, Killing It never becomes a lecture, as the comedy is character-based and takes the situations they find themselves in lightly.

WHERE TO WATCH- If snakes give you the heebie-jeebies, Killing It will be a rough ride to put yourself through, but you can find it on Apple TV+.

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