I think part of the enjoyment came from the serial nature of it unfolding daily It had some good humor, but with a melancholy backdrop. Like you I loved the uniqueness of it all. How often do come across an idea so weird yet still works?

This reminded me little of the John Scalzi novel The Dispatcher. The premise of that novel was that for some unknown reason people the world changed and people that were murdered almost always came back to life in their bed perfectly healthy. Death of natural causes or suicide kept you dead, but you couldn't be murdered by another. An industry sprang up from it, where legal dispatchers came to murder people about to die during an operation etc. I don't remember the specifics, but there were rules. Of course the gray and blackmarket had their dispatchers as well and sometimes people worked in all three.

The idea was a weird one to build a novel around, but Scalzi managed to make it work and never once tried to explain the phenomenon behind it. Likewise with this one.

Jon Bois is a name I will keep an eye on as well.