They Do The Monster Math (Plus, adieu to The Good Place) - Friday Video Distractions, by Mike Norton
Arriving on Netflix January 23rd was the ten-episode adaptation of Steve Niles and Damien Worm's October Faction . The series centers on the Allen family, who we learn have been in the monster-hunting business as members of the covert Presidio organization for several generations. Fred ( J.C. MacKenzie ) and Deloris ( Tamara Taylor ) Allen, an interracial couple, have been field agents for years. They've raised their fraternal twins, the introverted, artistic Viv (Aurora Burghart) and the extroverted Geoff (Gabriel Darku), in a variety of places around the globe, all under the cover profession of being risk assessors for an insurance firm. A sufficiently dull cover identity to keep their kids (and probably most people they meet -- who wants to talk up an insurance agent?) from wanting to find out more about it. The parents have hidden their true profession from their kids, even going the extra step of raising them ...