Indie Spotlight: Entry-Level Grim Reapers Ensure Death Sticks To The Schedule In Comedy Miniseries ‘Killing Time’

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Sometimes, murder is just part of the job.

Well, enabling murder. And it’s not always murder! Sometimes it’s car accidents, or severe allergic reactions, or someone walking under a power line just as it snaps, falls on them, and shocks them to death with all the might of their city’s power grid! Now, that may sound gruesome, but really, it’s just part of the natural ebb and flow of life and death.

Brother and sister duo Ant and Nat Griffith are very familiar with that ebb and flow. After all, they’re recently deceased. Upon dying, they were handed the same menial job as all the rest of the world’s newly dead: grim reaping, aka making sure their (formerly) fellow humans die in a timely manner. While doing their job — which involves a seemingly endless cycle of waiting to receive manila envelopes from on high containing headshots and first names of their next targets — they’re still kicking around on earth, trying to enjoy the little things unlife has to offer (gummi bears and handsome boys, for example).

There are a couple downsides, though. First, there’s a lot of inconveniently bloody death scenes to deal with. Second, no one on earth remembers them for more than a few hours (including those handsome boys).

Oh, and if they don’t meet their death quota, they can kiss their ticket to heaven goodbye.

Starring real-life siblings Anthony and Natalie Griffen, Killing Time is a five-episode dark comedy miniseries you can watch in its entirety on Natalie’s website. You can also watch the first episode below.

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