Black-ish star Deon Cole takes on the Russian mob in the suspenseful new BET+ dramedy.
Addicted to pills and frustrated with his “desk jockey” job on the force, Touch wants in.
“No one can know about this,” he warns them.
Malcolm Barrett, Cynthia McWilliams, Michael Trucco, and Deon Cole in ‘Average Joe’.Credit: BET+
“I meanno one.”
Jokes are weaved into otherwise straight-faced dialogue.
Comedian-writer-actor Cole, so consistently hilarious onblack-ish, gives a compelling dramatic performance as Joe.
Malcolm Barrett, Cynthia McWilliams, Tammy Townsend, Ashley Olivia Fisher, and Deon Cole in ‘Average Joe’.BET+
This show is not for the squeamish.
The violence is frequent and graphic, and the multiple torture scenes border on gratuitous.
But that’s what the fast-forward button is for, I suppose.
New episodes drop every Thursday.
