Following the love story of Billy and Billie, two step siblings, who falls deeply in love with each and other and struggle against facing their family and friends that oppose to their relationship.
The dialogue, as written by LaBute, is as sharp as anything he has done previously onstage or the big screen. And the characters are just as nasty to each other as ever.
Adam Brody is just fine as the unruffled brother, but it's relative newcomer Lisa Joyce who steals the show as the sister, wearing her frustrations all over her sleeve.
If Billy and Billie become "regular" relationship partners, the premise will need to expand. In the meantime, LaBute, Brody and Joyce have given us enough reason to keep watching.
[It] is the best kind of new television show. Even as its characters snap and snark at each other, the portrayal of these flawed humans is humane...and dare I say, empathetic?
