User Reviews

I'm still trying to figure out how anybody could compare this show to Married With Children and I say that as someone who watched every scene at least three times! It remains the gold standard as my absolute favorite sitcom- (with MASH being my absolute favorite show). I'll watch anything once if it's about spies, crime, or medicine. I gave this a chance and I'm really enjoying this especially this third installation with great guest stars, Sharon Horgan and Billy Campbell, two of my favorites. So I don't know what all the negativities about, it's quite entertaining. It's definitely not as serious as Citadel and it's not as showy as the IMF but give it a chance and forget about the previous incarnations and with an open mind you might actually enjoy it!

So she won't be sending anymore negative reviews ! This episode cracked me up! I found the chemistry and hilarity between the two leads awesome! From the dining scene where she showed him how he ate like a percussionist to the way he said he looked "fly" and then he said he could act "cool" and put that sock-cap on half cocked, don't know how you couldn't get that this isn't supposed to be some sort of Mission Impossible type spy show, its supposed to be more Get Smart like a comedy of errors. They are supposed to be on some sort of mission but they are bickering like teenagers. I was cackling throughout. Just lose the "but isn't realistic" thinking and enjoy that it's not supposed to be!

This review of this particular episode applies to this whole ridiculous series.

For their third mission, John and Jane are sent to the Italian Alps to get intel on an Australian billionaire (played by the very Irish sounding Sharon Horgan) and her surfer husband. As part of the op they get on a chair lift to follow their targets up a mountain as they go skiing. It's only as they're riding the chair lift, all geared up for skiing, that Jane asks John if he can ski, to which he replies, "No, not at all." Now, you would think that these two super spies would have had this discussion BEFORE they spent the many hours it takes to get fitted into ski clothes, boots, and getting skis. Anyone who skis, knows the complex logistics involved before you even take your first step onto the snow. Also, anyone who skis KNOWS that a complete novice like him would have landed on his face BEFORE he even got on the chairlift, let alone trying to ski down an intermediate run without EVER having been on skis. All of this stupidity for the tired gag of watching his stunt double fumble and crash on the ski slope. THIS is the best Donald Glover, artistic genius, could come up with?

And that's the problem with the whole show. What made the original Jolie and Pitt film so fun was that these two incredibly hot people, who were in a sexual rut, find their way back into lust and love AFTER they discover they're working for rival spy agencies. The sexual chemistry between those two was the ESSENTIAL ingredient to the whole premise. After watching three episodes (and no more I assure you) both my wife and I were amazed by the zero chemistry between Glover and Erskine - not to mention that neither of them are even that sexy on their own. So much so, that their first sex scene was actually really embarrassing. Their low-key indie film vibe is completely wrong for these characters and makes me wish that the hot couple (Alexander Skarsgard and Eliza Gonzales) who were killed at the beginning of the first episode had been the stars of this misguided venture.

Donald Glover is a talented, original and quirky artist as proved by his amazing series "Atlanta." But a sexy leading man, he is not. If he had cast a genuinely hot, charismatic and, most importantly, FUNNY leading lady this series might have had a shot. As it stands now, it's just a failed exercise in vanity.