The first episode features overwrought sequences of doomed love, as the camera peeks showily through spiral bannisters; the second is when things get good.

A few dance ideas — the sway on one leg before the transferral of weight to the other, the pass-the-partner-this-way-then-the-other move — are showily reiterated.

In what became characteristic in her role as senior correspondent on “The Daily Show,” Bee matches Flynn’s ignorance with her own showily feigned idiocy.