I was barely able to make it through the first episode, which is never a good sign. After a generic bit of bish bash boshery set in the past, we find a supposedly retired Julie (Hawes) living a grumpy secluded life on an otherwise idyllic Mediterranean small island buying Wagu for her soon to arrive son, Edward (Highmore), whom she hasn't see in years. Highmore seems to be still locked in to his Good Doctor character, the same nervous energy and inability to look even his mother in the eye - I wondered if he was supposed to be on the spectrum. Anyway, he turns out to be vegan - the hilarity is deadening. Julie gets a call from her old boss to do one last hit - as you do - as the target is handily located on a boat offshore. By the magic of some spidey sense plot device, Julie twigs the voice isn't her real boss. This is the level of 'noooo...really!... I never' brainmelt this show is happy to dredge.
There is absolutely no chemistry between the two leads - Highmore looks embarrassed to be there. So much so that a scene with them at a picnic table is mostly made up of head on single shots of each of them, as if they couldn't stand to do the scene together.
The dialogue is clunky AF. The characters paper thin. The humour is witless and delivered with no sense of timing.
An utterly joyless and less thrilling work will be hard to find in 2025.
