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Ride or Die<\/p>\n
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As ever, we are all looking for something to watch in any given week, and now, there\u2019s a new 95% Rotten Tomatoes-scored show<\/a> live that you may want to check out. Surprisingly enough, it\u2019s not on Apple TV, where that tier is practically average at this point.<\/p>\n Like Apple\u2019s Widow\u2019s Bay, this is another comedy. It\u2019s called Ride or Die<\/a>, and Amazon has dumped out all eight episodes onto Prime Video already, something it sometimes does in order to grab an audience right away.<\/p>\n Ride or Die pairs Ted Lasso\u2019s Hannah Waddingham and Hidden Figures\/The Help\/Fruitvale Station\u2019s Oscar-winning Octavia Spencer, who has been attached to countless great projects, as shown. And clearly, Ride or Die is another one. What\u2019s it all about? Here\u2019s the official synopsis:<\/p>\n \u201cRide or Die follows best friends Debbie Claybourne and Judith Burton who thought they knew everything about each other, except Judith turns out to be an international assassin. When a mysterious figure emerges from Judith\u2019s past and a hit goes horribly wrong, both of their worlds are turned upside down as they\u2019re forced to go on the run together. It\u2019s a race against time and a road trip across Europe, with law enforcement, highly trained assassins, and some very dangerous criminals at their heels.\u201d<\/p>\n Ride or Die<\/p>\n Rotten Tomatoes<\/p>\n Judith would be Waddingham and Debbie is Octavia Spencer, which sets up that dynamic. It\u2019s pretty easy to see the enigmatic, British Hannah Waddingham as a spy, though this is far from James Bond, given that it\u2019s a buddy comedy.<\/p>\n It is pretty hard for most comedies to rack up such high critic scores, given how subjective humor can be, but this has landed well for Amazon. The service does not have many shows in this genre putting up these kinds of numbers. As for a potential season 2, the series is already #1 on Amazon\u2019s top 10 list, unseating Legally Blonde prequel Elle and megahit romance series Off Campus. That\u2019s about as good as a premiere as you could hope for. Ride or Die was not auto-greenlit for season 2, but it stands to reason it has a pretty good shot at one if it maintains this level of popularity. And what streaming service wouldn\u2019t want to be competing with Apple\u2019s Widow Bay and Shrinking? And ironically, doing so using one of its biggest actors taken from Ted Lasso itself. Pretty funny turn of events there.<\/p>\n You can check out all episodes of Ride or Die on Amazon now, and see if it lives up to the critical hype.<\/p>\n Follow me on Twitter<\/a>, YouTube<\/a>,<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series<\/a> and The Earthborn Trilogy<\/a>.<\/p>\n