Boxed with John Fardy: Ride or Die
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The Pat Kenny Show. With Timber Living Log Cabins. Saturday and Sunday from 10am. On Newstalk. Conversation that counts. Well, now it's time for Boxed. I'm joined by the presenter of Screen Time, John Fardy. John, good morning. Good morning, Pat. You have selected a comedy caper.
A comedy caper. Ride or die.
Who is John Fardy and why is he on Boxed to talk about Ride or Die?
Be careful when you're Googling that, folks. But this is a show on Prime Video. They like us to call it Prime Video now. They've dropped the Amazon, technically. But in case you don't know what Prime Video is, it is Amazon. So we have the great Hannah Waddington, a lot of people know from Ted Lasso, an actress who I suppose came into bloom in later years. That's always written about her. She was kind of a musical theatre impresario actress type and she's just done huge business since Ted Lasso. She is best friends to Octavia Spencer and they are really close friends and have been for 25 years.
What is the basic premise of Ride or Die and where can I watch it?
Octavia Spencer is... is married to a politician, Dave Claiborne, who has ambitions to be the big thing.
And she has for him as well. He's a bit kind of a dumb blonde of a politician. Yes. And she is the brains that might bring them to number 10.
Indeed, the power behind the throne. But she's kind of lovely as well, it has to be said. She's a great actress. A lot of people might know her from Octavia Spencer. Now, here's the rub in all this. Hannah Washington's character, Judith, also known as Whiptail. Why is she called Whiptail?
Which actors lead Ride or Die and what are their character relationships?
Because she's an assassin and a damn good one at it. To the point that people were talking she should be the next Bond because she does have action chops. So what happens in this is they are going to an event one night with her husband and... Hannah Waddington's character is there on an assassin job and they realise that they've both well Hannah's been lying to Octavia Spencer all this time and she's actually an assassin the SH1T hits the fan and they go on the run and this is her discovering her friend is not who she thought she was who were those people why are they shooting at us I can't tell you I don't know see DCXX
What is this? I don't know. I think somebody wanted me to find it. D.C. Debbie Claiborne. Those are my initials. It's me. What are my initials doing? Debbie, will you wait? Will you just calm down? Calm down? Calm down? You've got a gun. The wing mirror's been shot off. I don't even know how we got to this van. We stole it.
We stole it. She realized the van they're in, they have stolen. Yeah. And why would an innocent forensic accountant, which is Hannah's official... Supposed job.
She's a badass, as I say. And I suppose the heart of this, in a way, is that Octavia Spencer's character for about the first four episodes is heartbroken that her friend's been lying to her. And it's not even so much that her friend has been killing people for money. It's that she lied to her all this time. They were in book clubs together.
There's a great line, a bit of a spoiler for me, I suppose, where she says, you know, you're paid to kill people. Yes, if I wasn't, I'd be a serial killer.
I should have got that clip, actually. This is very funny. So what I found about this was it started and I thought, oh, this is kind of OK. I'm not sure why people are raving about this. And then it really drew me in as it went on. There's a great movie with Robert De Niro called Midnight Run. Mm hmm. And it reminds me kind of of that, albeit a female version. And it's important to say that, you know, we don't see that many action parts for women in their mid-50s. I saw someone in The Guardian call it a perimenopausal comedy, which is a bit reductive, it has to be said. But I get what they're pointing at here. And also what has to be said is the plot is ludicrous. It's daft. But don't let that put you off.
It is kind of absurd because Hannah Waddington's character is involved with this group of assassins. It's possibly the British intelligence agency. There may be a hit out on her. She has to go in pursuit of another bad guy. It's very labyrinthine.
Why is Hannah Waddington’s character called Whiptail and what is her secret life?
And it's not a spoiler to say that her boss is Bill Nighy, playing Bill Nighy very well.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–0:22
2
Who is John Fardy and why is he on Boxed to talk about Ride or Die?
0:22–0:57
3
What is the basic premise of Ride or Die and where can I watch it?
0:57–1:29
4
Which actors lead Ride or Die and what are their character relationships?
1:29–4:18
5
Why is Hannah Waddington’s character called Whiptail and what is her secret life?
4:18–5:48
6
How does the story begin to escalate into a chase and reveal betrayals?
5:48–7:17