‘Ride or Die’ series review: Octavia Spencer and Hannah Waddingham are charming in this buddy comedy
The series 'Ride or Die' features Octavia Spencer and Hannah Waddingham as an unlikely duo caught in an international espionage plot. The review praises the chemistry between the leads and the show's fast-paced, comedic approach to the assassin genre.
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The retired assassin seems to be a constant fixture in action movies, and, in Ride or Die we have a different kind of killer. The series opens with Judith (Hannah Waddingham), disregarding her handler Sam’s (Calam Lynch) instructions to very publicly kill a nasty Russian. When she meets Sam after the mission, he tells her the firm has decided to retire her as she is a WOACA (Woman of a certain age).
Judith demands another chance, which Sam reluctantly arranges. Besides Judith’s mission that goes spectacularly wrong, we also see her best friend, Debbie (Octavia Spencer), the American wife of a British MP, David (Jamie Parker). Debbie loves shopping for antiques and plotting her husband’s rise to the premiership and 10 Downing.
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