EPISODE
SEASON
Impastor - Season 1
Buddy Dobbs, a fugitive and hard-core gambling addict who, in order to hide from a pair of loan sharks, ends up stealing the identity of a recently deceased gay pastor in Ladner, a local small-town community.
12 March 1995, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
12 February 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
18 September 1974, New York City, New York, USA
10 June 1981, Adelaide, Australia
26 October 1935, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
24 May 2003, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
July 20, 2015
Sara Rue (Less Than Perfect) shines, as usual, as the new pastor's secretary, Dora, but it's hard to see even Rue keeping this one from collapsing under its own stupidity.
July 13, 2015
Now and then, Impastor shows traces of sentimentality, which is fine in a comedy that otherwise seems to be trying to prove how naughty it is. Sentimental naughtiness is probably the essence of a lovable rogue.
July 16, 2015
Clearly, we're meant to root for [Buddy] to find redemption, but the trick will be to tolerate him, and the show, long enough to see change begin to happen.
July 13, 2015
Series creator Christopher Vane's producing credits reach back to HBO's '90s single-camera pioneer Dream On, and that tonal style is the trick here -- blending edgy adult content with comfy comic familiarity.
July 17, 2015
The tone and presentation feels like something more likely to be found online as a web series, with the most obvious jokes you'd think of for the premise getting worked out of its system first.
July 14, 2015
Rosenbaum has an amusing moment or two, but nothing to make anyone grin with the stereotypical wideness of the church's gay staffer.
July 15, 2015
In its effort to become hipper and edgier, TV Land happily has not abandoned "likable."
