Sunny Nights is part comedy, part mystery and completely bonkers. It’s about two American siblings (Will Forte and D’Arcy Carden) who are in Australia to start a spray tan business.

Sunny Nights is the second bonkers comedy/mystery from Australia I’ve reviewed this week. (See Deadloch) The Aussies are good at this crazy stuff. [See also: Fisk]

Martin (Will Forte) and Vicki (D’Arcy Carden) have some pretty good spray tan. That’s it. They have no backing, no money, and almost no brains between them. They are bold, brazen, and determined to succeed no matter what.

Martin has another motive for being in Australia besides the urgent need for spray tan down under. His separated wife Joyce (Ra Chapman) is a journalist there and he wants her back.

There are many interesting characters, a lot of them criminals, in this series. Subplots abound. In a performance heads above anyone else in the series, stands Mony (Rachel House). Mony is head of a syndicate of loan sharks and blackmailers. She and her brother Kash (Miritana Hughes) run the business.

Martin accidentally gets blackmailed when he spends a night (recorded on video, of course) with Mony’s honey trap Susi (Jessica De Gouw). Paying off the blackmail puts Martin and Vicki in the realm of people around Mony, including a former athletic hero Terry (Willie Mason) who is recovering from serious brain trauma from his athletic career.

While Kash is playing enforcer to collect the money Martin owes in blackmail, he accidentally gets murdered. Susi, Vicki, and Martin are in the room at the time. They enlist help from Terry and decide to feed him to the crocs. That plan, like every other plan Vicki and Martin conceive, goes wildly wrong. The croc explodes next to a golf course while full of spray tan and bits of Kash.

Mony wants vengeance. And she’s ruthless about it.

The crocodile incident brings pest control worker Nova (Megan Lilly Wilding) into the story. She’s obsessed with the crime and wiggles her way into Joyce’s journalistic investigation of the crime. Joyce, of course, has no idea Martin is involved. She’s busy falling back in love with him.

The sibling chemistry between Will Forte and D’Arcy Carden is outstanding here, but in my mind Rachel House straight up walks off with Sunny Nights. The cast was really strong and played it straight in a series full of ridiculous situations. There was a cameo with Mary Steenburgen and I caught sight of Nina Oyama (from Deadloch) in one short scene.

Every idea Martin and Vicki use to get their business going ends in a dangerous catastrophe. (Vicki, by the way, is never labeled a lesbian. But look at her. I’m calling it.) Martin starts out as a wimpy desk jockey but he grows more powerful after each disaster. The series is nowhere near over when the end of the season arrives. I’m hoping enough people watch and enjoy it to bring on a second season of Sunny Nights.

All of season 1 is streaming now on Hulu/Disney+.