I Miss Reaper

Reaper was a short-lived CW series that ran for two seasons from 2007 until 2009. It was about  Sam Oliver, a college drop-out stuck at dead-end job, who, on his 21-st birthday learned that his parents sold his soul to the Devil. He now has to work as a Reaper, essentially Hell's Bounty Hunter, catching souls that have escaped from hell and are going about doing their unfinished business, usually wreaking havoc of various proportions in the world of the living. Souls are captured in "vessels", which are specialized containers disguised as common household appliances, with a different vessel for each soul. Fortunately, Sam can rely on the help of his best friends, the lovable goofballs Sock and Ben.
As you imagine, Reaper was a series that focused mostly on the comedic aspect of its premise. It's a show that very much felt like Supernatural's lighthearted, goofier cousin and it frequently delivered some big laughs. While Brett Harrison's Sam was a solid, dependable lead, for me it was Tyler Labine's Sock and Ray Wise's Devil that made the show really memorable. Labine plays your typical obnoxious comic-relief character, but for the most part, he managed to keep Sock in the sweet spot right between really funny and really annoying, creating that rare really likable character that you'd still probably punch in the face. Most of the funny banter between the three friends comes either from Sock, or from the other two bouncing lines off of him, which made for a really enjoyable dynamic between them.

As for Ray Wise, he outright stole every single scene he was in. His Devil is one of my favorite portrayals of Satan of all time. He has a slightly creepy, but mostly really cheesy uncle sort of vibe going on, with a Jack Nicholson's Joker grin seemingly glued to his face. He's sleezy, manipulative and constantly plays pranks on just about everyone, but mostly on Sam, frequently teleporting him to random locations just for the hell of it, if you pardon the pun. Maintaining the jokey side of Satan for the most part made his serious moments stand out even more. When the situation called for it, this was a Devil you wouldn't want to cross and Ray Wise could switch from delightfully cheesy to cold and menacing at the drop of a hat.
Early on, the show's routine would go something like this - Sam is going about his mundane existence, harboring a crush for his colleague Andi and not really doing anything about his life, when The Devil teleports him somewhere, makes fun of him for a little while and gives him a vessel and a hint about the escaped soul. A good chunk of the episode is then spent trying to piece together what the soul wants and how the vessel works and after at least one encounter in which either the vessel doesn't work or something else goes wrong, there's one final battle in which the soul is successfully captured and brought back to hell - via a portal in a DMV, because, as the Devil puts it, "any place that seems like hell on Earth, is hell on Earth."  Neat. It seemed strange that all of these escaped souls just happened to be always popping pretty close to where Sam lives and works, but it's easy to forgive. Eventually the show did break out of its formula and started to try out some different things. Some changes were nice, like finding out more about the deal that Sam's parents made with the Devil or having Andi figure out that Sam is Hell's Bounty Hunter and the two of them eventually starting to date, while others were kind of weird, like Sock's crush on his step-sister. The show also brought in a whole bunch of demon characters near the end of a season one and really played around with them in season two, including having Ben even dating a demon. It became less about capturing souls and more about the mythology of this bizarre world and where Sam and his friends belong in it. Season two played around with some really cool concepts that I can't go into much detail out of fear of spoilers and while it was also where the aforementioned step-sister crush storyline happened, it was for the most part fresh and exciting.
The show was cancelled and while there were talks of renewing it and even of a comic book or animated spin-off, none of that has happened and it doesn't look like it will. It's a shame, because the show had a solid premise and a lot of potential, particularly with the direction it was heading at the end of season two, what with introducing angels and such. I think there's a lot that could have been explored with this world and these characters. Still, it's two seasons of good, solid entertainment with plenty of laughs, memorable characters, some cool concepts and decent special effects, so I recommend you check it out if you find the time.

Wouldn't you trust him?