The show deviates after Helen finds out and then becomes a trained-up member of Harry’s elite team with the resulting episodes sending them both on missions while trying to keep up the facade back home. She’s progressively bored with married life, craving the spark they once had. Harry Tasker (Steve Howey, who is no Arnie) is a suburban computer salesman keeping his life as a spy secret from his wife Helen (Ginger Gonzaga, who is no Jamie Lee Curtis). What once felt zippy and slick (if a little dated with its gender politics) now feels leaden and cheap, a cruel reminder of the fun we once had almost 30 years ago. (One could argue the film also led to Date Night, Knight and Day and a flurry of other genre-mixing crowd-pleasers.) At one point Cameron was set to take a larger role before retreating into the blue and handing over the baton to a team that promptly drops it, falls over and lands flat on their faces. Conceptually, converting his boisterously entertaining 1994 action comedy True Lies into a TV series isn’t entirely ill-advised the loose set-up of mixing marital strife with high-octane action was already enough to inspire 2005’s equally enjoyable Mr and Mrs Smith, itself receiving a more prestige-y small screen transfer later this year courtesy of Donald Glover. Granted, it might only be the lightest of grazes with just a token executive producer credit but the finished product is so thoroughly junky that even the mildest of associations is the kind of embarrassment one would want scrubbed from both IMDb page and televisual history at large. Photograph: CBS Photo Archive/CBS/Getty ImagesĪs James Cameron continues his victory lap as re-throned king of the world with both Avatar: The Way of Water and Titanic making more and more millions at the box office, here comes a striking reminder that not everything he touches turns to gold. Steve Howey and Ginger Gonzaga in True Lies.

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