Review: Skeleton Landlord “Pilot”

Overview (Spoilers Below)

Skeleton Landlord follows a landlord running an apartment complex which, in this case, features two tenants who haven’t paid their rent for 12 months which leads “Mark” (the campus maintenance guy) to wonder what the hell these people are even doing here still. Skeleton heads on over to the room to have a frank discussion, but comes away bummed out that in the eyes of the tenant, he’s not cool at all.

Instead of collecting the aforementioned rent, Skeleton Landlord decides to start a band so as to appeal to his much younger tenants. Before he even books a first practice, the business owner decides to buy drugs that will help his skeleton frame age much younger than his 100-year old guess-timated age. On the day of the show, Skeleton Landlord ends up spilling his drugs on his tenants causing them to get older, and eventually, die. After Mark removes the bodies, Skeleton Landlord warns, “no more cool tenants”.

Our Take

Having once been in the property management business, both as a tenant and a solution expert, it is NOT easy to run any property and I can’t imagine the additional stressors of being a skeleton on top of all of this. The Sam Wagstaff and Doug Bleichner co-production is a live-action/animated hybrid with visuals that look like gen1 PlayStation on top of a TV sitcom parody and it works beautifully. The show is hilariously scripted, Doug’s voice of “Skeleton Landlord” is corny but perfectly fits a skeleton with long hair and a pony tail, and I’m dying to see additional tenants sooner rather than later. With the show’s premise the possibilities really are endless for episode ideas and I’m curious to see what the guys could do with a slightly bigger budget.

Hopefully, we don’t have to wait that long to find out.