Read THR's TV review for Hitmen:
, minus the latter's, well, dazzling joke density, masterfully controlled silliness and chockablock comedic virtuosity. If some of the best TV comedies of the past few years have focused on the drab ordinariness of outwardly badass vocations, here's a thoroughly low-key iteration of that trope.doesn't profess the ambition of those other comedies. With six 22-minute episodes comprising the debut season, it's content to be an appetizer.
Most of the time, though, it's a three-person show, which means episodes largely succeed or fail depending on the guest actor of the week's chemistry with Giedroyc and Perkins.'s Sian Clifford is a particular highlight as Mr. K's embezzling accountant; tougher and smarter than Fran and Jamie combined, she almost immediately pits her captors against each other.
More disappointing is the fact that despite the winkingly archetypal movie-assassin situations that Fran and Jamie seem to be deliberately written into , there are few subversions, let alone commentary, on the genericness of those circumstances. That makes the digressive moments of quirkiness between Perkins and Giedroyc, like Fran and Jamie debating whichcharacters are the hottest, feel all the more winsome — and insufficient in number.
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