

Although he’s a little buff for a computer salesman, Helen complains that his “idea of fun and adventure is ordering coffee from Hawaii.”

CBS perhaps wisely splits the difference by clueing in the wife on her husband’s clandestine life as a superspy during the premiere, setting up a double-secret scenario that plays out agreeably enough over the first four episodes, without fully answering the other question, which is why bother?Īdapted from James Cameron’s film pairing Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis, the series begins with Helen (Ginger Gonzaga, recently seen in “She-Hulk”) grousing about her husband Harry Tasker (Steve Howey) being kind of boring. To anyone familiar with the 1994 movie “True Lies,” the first question for a series adaptation is where to begin.
