To say Hit & Miss is the best programme ever made about a transgender Irish assassin who used to be in a circus might sound like a faint praise. So ignore it, as it was very good indeed.
Although there’s a chance it simply moved too quickly for us to notice how ridiculous the premise was, as the genre shifted more often than a broken gearbox. The episode opened with a shot of a hooded figure coldly assassinating a running man. It felt slick and familiar, like a Hollywood film or possibly an expensive, late-stage episode of the Bill.
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