Network: TV Land
Episodes: 20 (half-hour)
Seasons: Two
TV show dates: July 15, 2015 — December 7, 2016
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Michael Rosenbaum, Aimee Garcia, Sara Rue, Mircea Monroe, Mike Kosinski, and David Rasche.
TV show description:
A dark comedy, this TV show revolves around a slacker who’s on the run from his gambling debt when he gets some divine intervention.
Buddy Dobbs (Michael Rosenbaum) is about to end his misery and jump off a bridge when Reverend Jonathan Barlow shows up and to talk him down. The reverend slips off the bridge and falls to his death so Buddy is left with the unlikely opportunity to steal the man’s identity. He ends up posing as the new gay pastor of the Trinity Lutheran Church in the small, tight-knight town of Ladner.
This leaves his bartender ex-girlfriend Leanne (Aimee Garcia) to clean up the huge mess he left behind. Buddy begins to settle into his new life as a pastor with the help of his preppy new assistant Dora (Sara Rue), alluring church treasurer Alexa (Mircea Monroe) and enthusiastic secretary Russell (Mike Kosinski). However, church president Alden Schmidt (David Rasche) senses that something isn’t quite right.
Curing sex crazed teenagers, stealing kids’ weed and reading Bible scripture may not be a bad gig for Buddy after all. Only time will tell how long he can keep up the facade.
Episode #20 — Thy Neighbor’s Wife
Buddy deals with the shocking arrival of Alexa’s husband. Dora makes a frightening discovery. Schmidt’s engagement party takes an unexpected turn.
First aired: December 7, 2016.
What do you think? Do you like the Impastor TV show? Do you think it should have been cancelled or renewed for a third season?
Very, very funny and also very clever. Maybe a smarter network will bring it back someday to finish up its developing story!
What a tragedy. Too funny one of the best! Will miss it.
The Impastor is a Great Show !! The only TV LAND show on my dvr ! Well no more TV LAND for this household !!!
I will miss him pastor. Enjoyed several of the actors from the series
It’s very inconsiderate of producers and sponsors to cancel, or let a show be cancelled, without bringing it to completion. They want a loyal audience, but yet have absolutely no loyalty to the audience that they already had. It’s just wrong. I am getting to the point where I don’t want to invest my time in a tv show until I know that I am valued as a viewer. I made this same comment to ABC when they cancelled 666, and to their credit, they made more episodes and finished the show. I’m not sure it was bc of my… Read more »
I agree 110 percent!!
Will definitely miss the Impastor show. I really enjoyed this program.
I am unhappy that Impastor is being taken off. Yet programs such as “Lopez” and “Throwing Shade”, are clearly political (left wing at that) motivated, and “Teachers” which has the witticism of flypaper , are left on in it’s place ! What happened to the days of programming for entertainment, instead of political rhetoric ? Hopefully “Impastor” will stay on, or at least, be picked up by a network that actually cares about it’s T.V. audience !!!!
Dear Ms. Tripp;
You’re totally correct!!! “Teachers” is total garbage!! There’s nothing on now that is as clever and humorous as “Impastor” was!!!
Impastor was one of the few shows on TV that was well-written and funny. The producers renew Teachers, and Impractical Jokers, and cancel Impastor for that mindless trash?
Please bring back Impaster!!!
Great show – What are you crazy?
You left us hanging!!
Tina,
You’re so right!!! This was a very, very funny sitcom and they certainly did leave us hanging!!! I can’t believe that they would let it end it at that point in the story!!! Hopefully the producers/sponsors will reconsider someday and bring the series back to some network from where it left off. At this point we can only hope!!!
Hold up…Wait a minute! What. This was a goOD show. Of course why keep a clever and funny show on the air when we can watch mind numbing REALITY TV all day long. SMH
This was one of the FEW shows on t.v. with a creative idea. Not one new show last season could equal this show. Pathetic short sightedness. A little promotion would have helped!!!
“Impastor” was the ONLY thing I watched on TV Land. Whoever makes decisions about this kind of thing, just look at the negative responses here. The show was smart, funny, edgy, and kept us all rooted to see what happened next. Ta ta, TV Land – I see no reason to watch anything on your channel again!
I find a series I can actually enjoy and it lasts 2 seasons. TV Land should have done well considering the great cast and chemistry. I guess my taste in comedy is not the norm. But I don’t want to be like the majority. I’ll take comedy like Impastor any day! I think it’s downfall was that it hit a little too close to the hypocrisy of religion in the US.
I can’t believe TV Land cancelled Impastor. It’s one of the funniest shows on TV. Very cleverly written and well acted. It was “dark” but always made me laugh hysterically. I’m so disappointed. My sympathies to the cast. I will miss you!