Fran and Jamie have been best friends since high school. They've stuck together through thick and thin, and even today, three decades since they first met, they always have each other's backs. Which is a very good thing, for two reasons.
The first is that Fran and Jamie are not exactly the most socially adept of people, and they each pretty much have no-one else in their lives with whom they can openly and honestly discuss the various problems and shortcomings of their lives. They are each other's safe space to say and feel anything.
The second is that they kill people for a living, which is rather a dangerous gig at times, so they are also each other's safe space to keep breathing.
It's Bake Off Breaking Bad as Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins, former hosts of the Great British Bake Off, play Jamie and Fran respectively, and bring their usual daffy, dorky brand of humour to the scenario. They just happen to be daffy and dorky while also being deadly(-ish).
The sometimes bumbling Jamie and Fran are very Mel and Sue roles; slightly neurotic, often impractical types, with a near-pathological avoidance of any kind of conflict. Well, any kind of conflict that isn't "I'm sorry, but we have to kill you now, it's our job".
And it's worth being clear that despite their general nebbish-ness, Fran and Jamie are not in any way reluctant assassins. They kill without any sign of qualms or compunctions, including bystanders on a couple of occasions.
The episodes of this first season of Hitmen are a bit overly reliant on the same basic structure; most are essentially three-person stories involving Fran, Jamie and their target. This person is generally already in their custody at the start of the episode, but in each case there is some reason they don't immediately carry out the hit. To be fair, there is at least some variety in the specifics of why the delay, and how the various potential victims respond to their situation, and the individual scenarios are quite amusing. Watching them back to back does highlight their similar structures, though.
The final episode of the season is the one that varies most from this basic pattern, which is definitely a factor in why it is also one of the strongest offerings of the set. It also sets up a bit of change in the status quo and gives the show new options for season two, which has already aired (and will be the subject of a future review).
It's Bake Off Breaking Bad as Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins, former hosts of the Great British Bake Off, play Jamie and Fran respectively, and bring their usual daffy, dorky brand of humour to the scenario. They just happen to be daffy and dorky while also being deadly(-ish).
The sometimes bumbling Jamie and Fran are very Mel and Sue roles; slightly neurotic, often impractical types, with a near-pathological avoidance of any kind of conflict. Well, any kind of conflict that isn't "I'm sorry, but we have to kill you now, it's our job".
And it's worth being clear that despite their general nebbish-ness, Fran and Jamie are not in any way reluctant assassins. They kill without any sign of qualms or compunctions, including bystanders on a couple of occasions.
The episodes of this first season of Hitmen are a bit overly reliant on the same basic structure; most are essentially three-person stories involving Fran, Jamie and their target. This person is generally already in their custody at the start of the episode, but in each case there is some reason they don't immediately carry out the hit. To be fair, there is at least some variety in the specifics of why the delay, and how the various potential victims respond to their situation, and the individual scenarios are quite amusing. Watching them back to back does highlight their similar structures, though.
The final episode of the season is the one that varies most from this basic pattern, which is definitely a factor in why it is also one of the strongest offerings of the set. It also sets up a bit of change in the status quo and gives the show new options for season two, which has already aired (and will be the subject of a future review).
No comments:
Post a Comment