Son of a Trickster

It's a too long YA origin story that hopefully sets up a better sequel. I guess I was just frustrated waiting. I get it - Jared's a little messed up, but golden hearted and maybe a little in love. His family has secrets and there's trouble afoot. I didn't need an entire book to tell me that.

There's undoubtably something simmering under the surface, threatening to break Jared Martin out of his high school reverie of baking pot cookies, getting drunk, stoned and screwed. Something more than the day-to-day chaos that is his life aided in no small part by his foul-mouthed and volatile mom with her string of questionable exes. One whose feet she nailed gunned to the floor, the other whose dog she killed, slamming her truck into his pitbull then calmly backing up over it again.

I'll bet this thing has legs but it feels like the first 3 episodes of an 8 episode arc that might improve if I was allowed to binge the season.