The Guardian’s review presents *Ride or Die* as an energetic and knowingly implausible comedy thriller led by Hannah Waddingham and Octavia Spencer. Waddingham plays Whiptail, a 50-year-old assassin whose secret life is exposed as both her career and her best friend Debbie’s marriage unravel in the same night. The reviewer argues that the series matters because it offers a rare, entertaining story centred on middle-aged female friendship, while mixing action, comedy and themes of ageing, betrayal and reinvention.

Key plot details include Whiptail being pressured into retirement by her younger bosses, then being sent to kill a gangster at a charity gala where Debbie’s husband, an aspiring prime minister, suddenly asks for a divorce. The mission goes wrong, a massacre follows, and Debbie’s husband is among the dead, leaving Whiptail to protect her drunken friend and uncover who is behind the attack. The review particularly highlights the chemistry between Waddingham and Spencer, saying their long-standing friendship feels convincing and becomes the emotional core of the show once Debbie learns that “Judith”, the friend she thought she knew, is actually a killer.