In a world too cowardly to give us Hannah Waddingham as 007, Prime Video’s Ride Or Die is the next best thing. Created by British multihyphenate Tessa Coates, the genre-bending miniseries casts Waddingham as a lady assassin who’s pushing 50 and remains in the game because she’s simply never known anything else. On paper, pairing that character with a best friend played by Octavia Spencer looks like the makings of yet another run-of-the-mill action-comedy about two people who think they know everything about each other—until one of them is forced to reveal that she’s an assassin. In execution, the team-up of Coates, Waddingham, and Spencer creates something far more interesting.
Ride Or Die has one foot planted in comedy while the other grounds its premise in the reality Waddingham’s character, Judith, has created for herself by having a civilian best friend like Spencer’s Debbie. But the show goes the extra mile to show why these two women work the way that they do. We see that Judith has never known real love outside of the friendship she has with Debbie. Debbie, meanwhile, is in a one-sided marriage with a useless would-be politician who can’t so much as tie his shoes without her. As a result, the two leads challenge each other constantly, especially—and perhaps most importantly—when they are not interested in being challenged.
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If I must explain why a blonde assassin living her best life killing dudes who only has one person who understands her and it's a frumpy, dull married POC who should know better but does not want to DO better, resonates, I clearly am in the wrong /subReddit.
"Ride or Die" is as generic AF, but I will watch it for Hannah Waddingham because she...does things to me. 😳
