EPISODE
SEASON
Impastor - Season 1
Buddy Dobbs, a fugitive and hard-core gambling addict who, in order to hide from a pair of loan sharks, ends up stealing the identity of a recently deceased gay pastor in Ladner, a local small-town community.
8 February 1962, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
10 September 1969, Edgewood, Maryland, USA
14 January 1972, Hong Kong
12 March 1995, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
July 17, 2015
The tone and presentation feels like something more likely to be found online as a web series, with the most obvious jokes you'd think of for the premise getting worked out of its system first.
July 13, 2015
Now and then, Impastor shows traces of sentimentality, which is fine in a comedy that otherwise seems to be trying to prove how naughty it is. Sentimental naughtiness is probably the essence of a lovable rogue.
July 15, 2015
In its effort to become hipper and edgier, TV Land happily has not abandoned "likable."
July 14, 2015
Rosenbaum has an amusing moment or two, but nothing to make anyone grin with the stereotypical wideness of the church's gay staffer.
July 13, 2015
Series creator Christopher Vane's producing credits reach back to HBO's '90s single-camera pioneer Dream On, and that tonal style is the trick here -- blending edgy adult content with comfy comic familiarity.
July 16, 2015
Clearly, we're meant to root for [Buddy] to find redemption, but the trick will be to tolerate him, and the show, long enough to see change begin to happen.
July 20, 2015
Sara Rue (Less Than Perfect) shines, as usual, as the new pastor's secretary, Dora, but it's hard to see even Rue keeping this one from collapsing under its own stupidity.