Tires Review

The A is a bet on the room, and the room keeps paying. Gerben plays Will as a man running one shop in his father's auto chain with none of the authority that should come with it, and Gillis plays his cousin Shane as the exact coworker who makes an already impossible job worse for sport. That relationship is the show. Everything else, the customers, the sales targets, the corporate visits, exists to give the two of them something to stand near while they undercut each other.

The first season arrives in 2024 as six short episodes and takes a beating for it. Reviewers call it thin, crass and plotless, and they are not wrong about the plot: a six episode run with no arc reads as a set of bits taped in a garage. The audience runs the other way from the first weekend, and Netflix orders more before the notices settle.

What happens next is the case for the grade. Season two doubles the episode count, gives Kilah Fox and Chris O'Connor real standing in the ensemble, and lets Will fail at things that actually matter to him. Season three is the most assured version of the show yet, and by then a fair share of the same critical press has come around to it. The complaint about the first season still stands and nothing here pretends otherwise.

What the show has instead is a rate of genuine laughs per minute almost no prestige comedy on the service can touch, plus a cast that sounds like people who work together rather than actors trading punchlines. Plot and camera work stay the weak axes because the show has never once cared about either. It cares about the joke, and the joke lands.