The smash 1994 spy comedy gets a small-screen adaptation with Steve Howey stepping in for Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ginger Gonzaga taking the Jamie Lee Curtis role.
is a bottle rocket. The accurate minimization of the series isn’t exactly “cheap,” but it’s definitely “incongruously small.”or series creator Matt Nix’sWhat Nix has done is recreate the first act of the Cameron movie , skipped over all the uncomfortable and icky stuff that makes up the middle and leapt ahead to the sequels that we never got — probably because, as this series suggests, those sequels might have run the risk of being borderline generic.
In Helen, Gonzaga has the series’ only fully developed character, through the four episodes sent to critics. She has a clear skill set, albeit one for which the value of all those aforementioned recreational interests is a tiny bit silly, as well as an emotional investment in the life that she and Harry lived before.
Howey, unfortunately, has much less to play. The movie could always fall back on the silly disconnect between a character built like Schwarzenegger but given an ultra-nerdy, ultra-unassuming cover identity. It’s hard to tell exactly what Harry is here, especially since after the prelude, we get almost none of Harry the secret-keeper or Harry the solo spy.
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