The Wrong Mans Is Easily the Best New Digital Show of the Season

Actually, we're just going to go with best new comedy overall

Oh, good, the adults have arrived.

Amid the stew of castoff cable properties and vanity projects, a few new shows in the digital world are distinguishing themselves as clever, original, and produced with a specific audience in mind.

One of those is The Wrong Mans, Hulu's half-hour action-comedy… thing, co-produced with the BBC and starring creators Matthew Baynton and James Corden as Sam and Phil, a pair of guys with unimpressive careers in public works in a little English town who just happen to wander into a hostage-taking and handle it about as well as you'd expect.

Part of what makes the show so much fun to watch—apart from very high production values, which, again, are a giant relief given the way the rest of the "premium content" on the market looks—is that the leads are perfectly matched.

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