'The Detour's' Jason Jones on how the family that strays together stays crazy-sweet grounded
In "The Detour," which recently returned to TBS for a fourth season, married partners Jason Jones and Samantha Bee have created a comedy about a family that is not exactly a family comedy. It's full of mayhem and love and usually interrupted sexual situations. One could call it both mature and juvenile, intelligent and dumb - not by turns but all at once. As I wrote of it once before, it can be violently physical, which is not to say physically violent. I think it's brilliant.
Jones plays father Nate Parker, with Natalie Zea as his partner, Robin - Bee, of course, has her own TBS show, the current events comedy commentary "Full Frontal With Samantha Bee." Liam Carroll and Ashley Gerasimovich play mismatched twins Jared, sometimes called Jareb, and Delilah. Nate is a big lug with a righteous core; Natalie a woman with a past, bits of which keep escaping into view. Jared is a sort of idiot, who last season succeeded an alpaca as
