Sharon Stone and Conan O'Brien do some improv crimes in Netflix's Murderville trailer

As entertainment writers, we tend to hear about a lot of ideas for a lot of TV shows, many of them either a) bad, b) repetitive, or c) both. Hence our unmitigated delight at the premise and trailer for Will Arnett’s new Netflix series Murderville, which not only promises the possibility for some extremely goofy and novel fun, but, from the early footage, seems to deliver on it.

The idea, in (semi-) brief: Each episode sees Arnett play Detective Terry Seattle, who appears, for the most part, to just be Will Arnett in a mustache. Seattle is teamed up in each episode with a celebrity partner (with this initial season naming Annie Murphy, Conan O’Brien, Ken Jeong, Kumail Nanjiani, Marshawn Lynch, and Sharon Stone as its roster of guest-gumshoes) to solve a murder. The twist is that, while the show is, for the most part scripted—with different scenarios pre-written, and a pre-determined solution to the crime—the celebrity actor doesn’t get the script, and must instead improvise along with Arnett, and, ultimately, name who they think the culprit is at the end of the episode.