"It was a cool feeling," Romano tells PEOPLE. "We weren't admitting to ourselves, 'I'm a big sitcom star, and you're a big sitcom star,' but we understood this is kind of unique and cool"

In the sixth episode of "No Good Deed," J.D., a washed-out soap opera actor, and his trophy wife Margo, begin discussing the house across the street that everyone seems to be bidding on. J.D. wants to downsize,

That’s the premise of Netflix’s No Good Deed, an eight-part series that is billed as a comedy and boasts the 1990s sitcom nostalgia combo of Ray Romano and Lisa Kudrow. As it turns out, the show is more of an uneven hybrid of suburban whodunnit and semi-sincere relationship drama.

Featuring Lisa Kudrow and Ray Romano, Netflix's new dark comedy "No Good Deed" is "about the highs and lows of searching for a safe, happy home."

Netflix’s newest comedy, No Good Deed, has failed to impress critics despite its star-studded ensemble featuring Lisa Kudrow, Ray Romano, and Linda Cardellini. The eight-episode series, which was released on Thursday (December 12),