Esposito performs Gracian “Grey” Parish, a person with a darkish previous who has left most of it behind to run a automotive service in New Orleans. His life has already began to unwind once we meet him, after the capturing dying of his son, resulting in issues at work and residential. The enterprise is struggling, and his daughter Makayla (Arica Himmel) is pulling away from Grey and her mom Rose (Paula Malcomson). Rose is satisfied they’re going to must promote their costly residence, and Grey can’t abdomen the considered not solely abandoning all that he’s labored for however the one place that can maintain reminiscences of his misplaced youngster. That’s why he takes a job. Will probably be a straightforward driving gig for a break-in at a lawyer’s workplace. What may go improper?
In fact, every part goes improper, and Parish finds himself entangled within the enterprise of a household of Zimbabwean gangsters led by an influence participant who goes by The Horse (Zackary Momoh) and his sister Shamiso (a charismatic Bonnie Mbuli). There’s drama within the Tongai household, together with an influence battle with The Horse’s brother Zenzo (Ivan Mbakop), however an excessive amount of of this materials is written in broad, clichéd dialogue that permits the present to sink each time it pulls away from its titular character.
There are extra distractions. Bradley Whitford pops as much as gnaw on some surroundings with a imprecise Southern accent as Anton, a criminal offense magnate with a connection to Grey’s darkish previous. Skeet Ulrich slinks across the periphery as an outdated buddy of Grey’s who seemingly has an equal ledger of getting him into and out of bother. Amanda Brugel will get a mysterious tough-talking savior function as Sister Anne, a possible lifeline for Grey when issues go improper.
Given its based mostly on a present known as “The Driver” and set in a world of excessive felony stakes, one would hope that “Parish” was no less than thick with motion, however that’s not precisely true. There are large developments on the finish of episodes like shootouts that shift allegiances, however there’s surprisingly little precise excessive stakes pressure on this present. A part of the issue is the various plot threads preventing for air from Grey’s grief to the Tongai’s human-trafficking operation to political video games being performed by Anton.