It will be a great shame if this pilot is not picked up for a full series. I'm pretty picky about my TV shows, but this was a very positive surprise. It's basically an action comedy about a girl - Hildy - with a slightly messy emotional life. She's nothing like her mother, so on the advice of her shrink she seeks out the father she's never known, to see if confronting him can help her get her act together. He's an assassin. And lo and behold, now everything comes together for Hildy. She has all the skills and inclinations necessary to become an assassin herself - even if some parts of her life stay messed up.
Sounds silly? It is. And heaps of fun. Recently I was reading Robert Heinlein's novel The Cat Who Walks Through Walls. It's also a light-hearted story about protagonists with a tendency to casually kill people, but Heinlein doesn't manage to get the tone of it quite right. It feels a bit uncomfortable to have these people just callously off somebody and not caring about what they've done. This TV show, however, gets it right! It successfully pulls off being a comedy about assassins, making sure that you see it primarily in a humorous light. That's quite an achievement.
And then of course one has to mention Shiri. Cute, adorable, brown-eyed Shiri. She has never looked better than she does here, nor has she ever acted better. Her character has an ebullience and warmth and vitality that I only hope for Ms. Appleby and everyone around her that she also has in real life. She is to die for. This is a show I will follow religiously if it becomes a full-fledged series.
Lastly, I will compare this to another favorite TV show of mine starring Ivan Sergei: the Canadian "Once A Thief". It has an extremely similar tone; a very similar sense of humor. "To Love And Die", however, is more professionally produced, and has a more eye-catching star! :-) Very entertaining. REALLY hope this gets a chance to continue...
8 out of 10. Hm, maybe even 9... Yeah, 9. Eye-candy of the highest order.
Sounds silly? It is. And heaps of fun. Recently I was reading Robert Heinlein's novel The Cat Who Walks Through Walls. It's also a light-hearted story about protagonists with a tendency to casually kill people, but Heinlein doesn't manage to get the tone of it quite right. It feels a bit uncomfortable to have these people just callously off somebody and not caring about what they've done. This TV show, however, gets it right! It successfully pulls off being a comedy about assassins, making sure that you see it primarily in a humorous light. That's quite an achievement.
And then of course one has to mention Shiri. Cute, adorable, brown-eyed Shiri. She has never looked better than she does here, nor has she ever acted better. Her character has an ebullience and warmth and vitality that I only hope for Ms. Appleby and everyone around her that she also has in real life. She is to die for. This is a show I will follow religiously if it becomes a full-fledged series.
Lastly, I will compare this to another favorite TV show of mine starring Ivan Sergei: the Canadian "Once A Thief". It has an extremely similar tone; a very similar sense of humor. "To Love And Die", however, is more professionally produced, and has a more eye-catching star! :-) Very entertaining. REALLY hope this gets a chance to continue...
8 out of 10. Hm, maybe even 9... Yeah, 9. Eye-candy of the highest order.