Killing It Proves That Tim Heidecker Is Our Best Modern TV Villain
Warning: SPOILERS for Killing It.
Killing It, the new series on Peacock, co-created by BrooklynNine-Nine's Dan Goor, stars Tim Heidecker, who once again proves that he’s the best TV villain. Heidecker plays Rodney Lamonca, the millionaire businessman and motivational speaker behind the Dominine convention, named because “to dominate is no longer enough.” Killing It’s lead character Craig (Craig Robinson) is a down-on-his-luck working man, who tries and fails to achieve the American Dream, until he stumbles upon the lucrative world of python hunting. However, Heidecker's portrayal of the nefarious Lamonca truly highlights his credentials as a villain.
In season 1, episode 3, «Dominine», Craig visits the convention in the hope of pitching his business idea to his entrepreneur idol Rita Gaines. He’s unsuccessful, and it’s another setback that furthers the show’s overriding theme of the unattainable myth that is the American Dream. It’s this theme that makes Tim Heidecker’s casting as Rodney Lamonca against Craig Robinson in Killing It so perfect.
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Best known for being one half of Tim and Eric Awesome Show on Adult Swim, Heidecker has made a career out of sending up the types of people that Rodney Lamonca represents. His web series On Cinema at the Cinema, for example, features Heidecker as a fictionalized version of himself. The Tim Heidecker of On Cinema is an outlandish parody of the right-wing idealogues that dominate online spaces. Heidecker is a grifter who barely does his research and presents himself as a knowledgeable authority. The running gag of On Cinema is that it’s a movie review show hosted by someone who never watches the
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