Johnny Rose

Once a video-rental fortune's self-made king, Johnny Rose now finds himself broke and exiled to a flea-bitten motel in the town he bought as a joke gift years ago. He clings to pressed suits, business-speak and stubborn optimism, determined to hold his family together and claw back some semblance of dignity and order.

Levy plays Johnny as the show's ballast, a man whose bewildered decency keeps him funny rather than pathetic. The comedy comes from watching a lifelong dealmaker try to negotiate his way out of a situation with no leverage left, while his exasperated eyebrows do half the work his dialogue doesn't need to.