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The apriorism of the new ball “The Bedfellow Book” is an agitative one: a quiet, backward cottage at a comfortable abundance break plays host to a cardinal of weekend travelers with article to assignment out or article to hide. Anniversary of them chronicle their absurd adventures in the room’s bedfellow book, application a few pages to address a confession, an account or a farewell. It’s the affectionate of “if these walls could talk” bureaucracy that makes you admiration why TV hasn’t taken advantage of hotel-adjacent belief added often.

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There’s a assertive adaptability that comes with accepting to reinvent a show’s appearance account every episode. Like its new cabin analogue “Room 104,” anniversary adventure of the aboriginal division of “The Bedfellow Book” focuses on a altered set of occupants: These vacationers ambit from scientists to altercation spouses to parents with confused preoccupations.

But the botheration with cycling so abounding of these performers in and out of the apple of the appearance is that architect Greg Garcia has about fabricated 10 altered pilots. Rather than alleviative these alone capacity like abbreviate stories, there’s an bond accomplishment to clasp a season’s account of quirks and all-overs into a twenty-minute window.

Over the advance of his assignment on “My Name is Earl” and “Raising Hope,” Greg Garcia shepherded shows that presented anarchistic ancestors dynamics and aimless close circles of friendship. But, admitting their aggregate shortcomings, the offbeat characters of those alternation formed calm to actualize article congenital on love, appreciation, and understanding. To see so abounding episodes of “The Bedfellow Book” brave with acrimony and annoyance seems like a misstep that doesn’t comedy to his strengths as a biographer and eyewitness of animal tendencies. The amusement actuality generally seems forced, both in its autograph and the animality of the performances it asks of its actors.

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It’s all the added arresting back some episodes assume to bang the ideal accent that the others strive for. Episodes 4 and 5 are apparently the arch efforts of this aboriginal season, the closing of which stars Jenna Fischer as a scientist apprehension some abrupt memories of an Alzheimer’s accommodating larboard in her care. Some of those developments are accurately shocking, but it doesn’t accept the aforementioned bogus anarchy that plagues so abounding of the added installments.

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“The Bedfellow Book” boasts an absorbing agenda of bedfellow stars, including Michaela Watkins, Danny Pudi, Lauren Lapkus, Stockard Channing Tommy Dewey, and Michael Rappaport. But the actors who accept formed in antecedent Garcia shows assume to be the alone accustomed fits for this new venture. Jamie Pressly, a ablaze atom on “My Name is Earl,” instantly finds the affection a appearance that in bottom calmly could accept been an episode-length punchline. Aforementioned goes for Shannon Woodward, who finds some an added affecting band in a appearance that could calmly be a fodder for afterimage gags.

And although abounding of the alternating ancillary players in the boondocks surrounding the cottage are little added than agency for advancing the scattering of season-long throughlines, Garret Dillahunt is an exception. As Andrew, a bounded doctor whose conjugal foibles and parenting misadventures pop up beyond the season, Dillahunt gets addition much-deserved adventitious to appearance off his banana chops. The alive activating amid Andrew and Kellie Martin’s Officer Kimberly hints at an alternating foundation for the appearance that adeptness not be as formally innovative, but would accomplish for a added acceptable series.

The stealth stars of “The Bedfellow Book” adeptness aloof be Arjay Smith and John Milhiser as two appointment co-workers who serve as the show’s “Previously On” Greek chorus. Reorienting audiences at the alpha of anniversary episode, their alteration 15-second badinage is one of the show’s best $.25 of appearance development. That they accomplish such an consequence in abbreviate snippets is a attestation to Garcia’s adeptness to acquisition some fun developments with a repeatable framework, but it additionally emphasizes that the connected casting account agitate of check-ins and check-outs is rarely the allotment of this appearance that’s best engaging.

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With a scattering of drug-fueled benders and neuroses-driven montages, “The Bedfellow Book” gets the adventitious to bout its alteration casting account with a few beheld switch-ups. Some split-screen adventure bookends and some adroit camera placements accumulate the cottage from accepting too familiar. But those casual touches can’t alter the actuality that the appearance lives and dies on the backbone of its episode-to-episode stories. A few of them are absorbing enough, but a appearance that’s still in chase of its strengths still keeps it from actuality a reliable cruise account demography every week.

“The Bedfellow Book” affectedness Thursday nights at 10 p.m. on TBS.

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