Review: Bordertown “Borderwall” (S1Ep2)

Spoilers Below

“Bordertown” borders the line with me. This episode was about a giant wall. Sound familiar? It’s a politically driven show. Bud stumbles upon a downed drug lord’s plane with $10 million in it. After returning all of the money, the town has a meeting on what they want to do with it. The incarcerated mayor asks the public what they want to do with the money. Bud leads them all to believe that a giant wall will be the ultimate solution to all of their problems. Instead, it leads him and the rest of the town on a slippery slope to an economic downfall. With the giant wall doing its job, there is no need for extra border patrol officers. Bud is relieved of his duties.

Shortly after, he discovers he can illegally smuggle immigrants in for cash. With no guilty conscience whatsoever, he unwillingly partners with his old boss and overpopulates Mexifornia with illegal immigrants.My biggest problem with this show is that I don’t know the characters. They are not developed for me yet and I don’t understand why Bud would be giving back $10 million one scene and then stealing Ernesto’s equipment minutes later. He also just ditches his hardcore values of being a border patrol officer. This confuses me as a viewer. This show may also tend to lean in one direction politically more than the other while feigning unbiased.
It is spastic comedy. It’s random. It doesn’t make sense half of the time, which makes it funny. And it is funny. The “What the hell what that?!” moments are plentiful in this episode.

The drug lord’s hitman is a giant man that runs around with a giant double-sided axe they used to use for beheading people. Bud’s daughter also asks to play “‘Shoots’ and Ladders” then fires her dad’s gun, causing her to propel through the window and into a tree. Stuff like this continues through the entire episode.
Unfortunately, I cannot un-hear Comic Book Guy as Bud.

I’m really torn with this show.

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