Spy thrillers are hardly new, but Ride or Die finds a refreshing hook by putting female friendship at the centre of all the action. Created by Tessa Coates, the Prime Video series pairs Hannah Waddingham and Octavia Spencer in an action-comedy that is less interested in globe-trotting espionage and more invested in two women navigating chaos together. The result is an easy, entertaining binge that doesn’t reinvent the genre but knows exactly where its strengths lie.
Waddingham plays Judith, who secretly leads a double life as the deadly assassin Whiptail, while Spencer’s Debbie is her unsuspecting best friend. When Judith’s carefully hidden identity is exposed, the pair are thrown into a dangerous conspiracy that forces Debbie into a world she never imagined existed.