The Great British Bake Off's former presenters Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins as Hitmen is funny enough

The Hollywood Reporter

Giedroyc and Perkins' new Peacock female assassins dark comedy is exactly what it sounds like. "Admittedly, Hitmen doesn't profess the ambition of those other comedies," says Inkoo Kang. "With six 22-minute episodes comprising the debut season, it's content to be an appetizer. There's a 'just enough' quality to pretty much every facet of the series: the charm of its lead performances, the freshness of its jokes and storylines, the modest flourishes in its visuals and stunts. (Armed but physically graceless, the middle-aged, frumpily costumed Giedroyc and Perkins are also just barely believable as mid- to lower-tier contract killers.) In GBBO terms, there's nothing resembling a showstopper here, but it's perfectly proficient as a technical challenge."

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• Hitmen's tonal fusion of slapstick silliness and wry heart is a welcome re-imagining of the lady assassin trope
• Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins were happy to surprise people with Hitmen roles: “It was nice to do something which was so radically different from Bake Off and to surprise people,” says Giedroyc. “You don’t often get the chance to do that in life, you get a bit pigeonholed and people just think, ‘Oh you’re the guys that talk about cakes.’ To get this job, go left field and do something different, felt brilliant.”