IFC · Ended

The Spoils Before Dying

Comedy, Crime · 2015 · Rated 4.4/10

Last aired: S1 E6, The Biscuit Eaters · 2015-07-10

Get your jazz hands ready, because Jonrosh's story takes viewers into the seedy underbelly of the 1950s jazz scene, in a detective story positively buzzing with erotic charge and a murder investigation that spins out of control.

Cast

Will Ferrell Eric Jonrosh

Michael K. Williams Rock Banyon

Kristen Wiig Delores DeWinter

Bérénice Marlohe Beatrice

Haley Joel Osment Alistair St. Barnaby-Bixby-Jones

Chin Han Salizar Vasquez DeLeon

Steve Tom Chip Donwelly

Marc Evan Jackson Kermit Biggs

Peter Coyote Dizzy the Cat

Michael Sheen Kenton Price

Maya Rudolph Fresno Foxglove

Tim Meadows Gary Dunhill

Bree Condon Groovy VaVoom

Emily Ratajkowski Agent Day

Kari Coleman Dr. Caligarious

Chris Mulkey Ed Nestly

Andy Daly Artie Mann

Jack Kilmer Tabby Smooth

Brooke Peoples Jiffy

Molly Shannon Tricksy

Chris Parnell Bebob Jones

Patty Guggenheim Red LaLane

Kate McKinnon Dallas Boudreau

Louis Gossett, Jr. Duke Webster

Season 1

E1 Murder in B Flat 2015-07-08 · 30 min In this never-before seen filmitization of Eric Jonrosh's best-selling novel The Spoils Before Dying, jazz musician Rock Banyon is accused of the murder of his former lover, Fresno Foxglove. The police give Rock two (maybe three) days to solve the murder, and he skips town and heads to Actual Mexico City... where he meets another old lover, Delores DeWinter.

E2 Blues for Barnaby 2015-07-08 · 30 min Rock links up with Delores in Actual Mexico City, but Delores delivers a cryptic warning. The musician eventually heads back to LA to try and get a lead on Stymagian, and has chocolate-banana cake with the police.

E3 That's Jazz 2015-07-09 · 30 min After Rock freaks out on The Artie Mann Show, he discovers that Fresno's sax player has turned up dead. However, he's holding the wrong sax, and Rock figures that it's the key to the mystery of who killed Fresno.

E4 Fear Steps In 2015-07-09 · 30 min After a helicopter gunman takes out Kenton, Rock goes to Stymagian's house in the hills and meets the scientist's daughter.

E5 The Trip Trap 2015-07-10 · 30 min After surviving Caligarious' attempt to kill him and make it look like a drug overdose, Rock uses a clever pants analogy to convince Chip and Kermit to let him go. Everything becomes clear, but can Rock track down the killer in time?

E6 The Biscuit Eaters 2015-07-10 · 30 min Rock confronts the man behind Fresno's murder and is forced to decide whether he'll live free as a jazz musician... and die the same way.

TV listings and show data from TVmaze.