Television review: The Kids in the Hall's 'Death Comes to Town'

Laughs? Chuckles, more like. Still, this miniseries about small-town murder provides context for the Canadian quintet's character comedy.Like getting into the Beatles via their later solo albums, I came at the Canadian comedy troupe the Kids in the Hall, whose self-titled series ran from 1989 to 1995 on HBO and CBS, late and backward, through the individual work of members Dave Foley ("NewsRadio"), Scott Thompson ( "The Larry Sanders Show") and Mark McKinney (the marvelous "Slings and Arrows,"...

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