AMC’s Kevin Can F**k Himself deserves a round of applause just for its title — an obvious play on CBS’ Kevin Can Wait, a two-season comedy best remembered for just how sloppily it handled Erinn Hayes’ expulsion as Kevin James’ significantly better half.

But first, a brief overview of Sunday’s two-episode premiere: Emmy Award winner Annie Murphy (Schitt’s Creek) stars as Allison McRoberts, a prototypical sitcom wife who tires of her regressive, multi-camera marriage to good-for-nothing husband Kevin (played by Kirstie’s Eric Petersen).

On Allison and Kevin’s 10th wedding anniversary, next-door neighbor Patty (The Real O’Neals‘ Mary Hollis Inboden) informs Allison that Kevin blew their life savings on bogus sports memorabilia and never told her about it.

The EMT who arrives on the scene tells Allison the guy overdosed on Oxycodone — an all-too-common occurrence these days.

That’s when a lightbulb goes off in her head: She can feed Kevin an obscene amount of Oxy and make it look like an overdose — easy peasy.

His nurse offers Allison a referral, in case she needs “a little help,” but Allison isn’t interested.

At wit’s end, Allison pays a visit to her ex-boyfriend Sam, who has recently moved back to town and opened a diner.

Sam tells Allison that she was the one who pulled away, but that’s beside the point.

The following day, Allison decides that she does in fact need “a little help.” She pulls the nurse’s referral out of her purse and walks to the address on the card!

And so, Allison heads inside and meets “Barb”… who is actually next-door neighbor Patty.