The Guest Book

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The Guest Book is an American anthology comedy television series created by Greg Garcia. The series stars Charlie Robinson, Carly Jibson, Lou Wilson, and Kellie Martin. The show is centered on the lives of the employees and visitors to a group of rental cottages in the small mountain town of Mount Trace. The regular cast plays residents in the town, while each episode is focused on a different guest star who plays an out-of-town vacationer. Garcia, who based the show on his habit of writing fake guest book entries while on vacation, wrote all 10 episodes of the first season. The series premiered on TBS on August 3, 2017. On September 13, 2017, TBS renewed the series for a second season.

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Cast

• Charlie Robinson as Wilfred, the caretaker of the rental cottages
• Carly Jibson as Vivian, the owner of Chubby's, the local strip club
• Lou Wilson as Frank, Vivian's stepson
• Kellie Martin as Officer Kimberly Leahy

Recurring

• Aloma Wright as Emma, Wilfred's wife
• Garret Dillahunt as Dr. Andrew Brown
• Laura Bell Bundy as Jessica, Andrew's ex-wife
• Trace Garcia as Bryce, Andrew and Jessica's son
• Eddie Steeples as Eddie, Wilfred and Emma's nephew
• Margo Martindale as Alice, Kimberly's mother
• Arjay Smith as Arlo
• John Milhiser as Woody
• Tipper Newton as Sinnomin, Vivian's employee
• Melanie Mosley as Kombucha, Vivian's employee
• Jack Donner as Walter, an elderly patron of Chubby's
• HoneyHoney as Chubby's house band, a mailwoman (Suzanne Santo) and an exterminator (Benjamin Jaffe)

Guest stars

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Episodes

The intended fifth episode of the series was originally intended to air on August 24, 2017, but was held back as it "contained elements that were deemed too sensitive" at that point in time. At the end of August 2017, Garcia noted on Twitter that the held episode would not be made available "for awhile", and that he hopes that it will be released at a later date. In mid-September, Garcia again posted on Twitter and confirmed that the episode would air the next Thursday as the eighth episode of the season, albeit in an edited form to fit its new place in the show's continuity.

When the episode aired, the sensitive elements were revealed to be in relation to the Unite the Right rally which took place two weeks before the episode was originally due to air. The episode depicted an Alzheimer's patient regaining his spousal abuse tendencies and racist personality - going as far as sewing and wearing a KKK outfit with the intention of attending a rally, while also revealing he once murdered an African American while burning down a local black church.

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Reception

Critical response

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 64% approval rating, with an average rating of 6.33/10 based on 11 reviews. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 55 out of 100 based on 9 reviews.

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References

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External links

• Official website
• The Guest Book on IMDb

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