'We Hunt Together' is a Very Different Kind of Crime Drama - and That's a Good Thing
Given that the British import We Hunt Together came to America on premium cable network Showtime earlier this summer, it's likely that many viewers completely missed out on the series entirely. This is an unfortunate shame because the show is one of the more original crime dramas to air this year and deserves a larger audience.
A pulpy spin on the standard police procedural, the story follows two detectives investigating a string of murders, even as it simultaneously depicts the pair that's committing the crimes. A classic cat and mouse suspense story - only this time in both directions - many of the genre's expected tropes are thrown on their heads by a story that questions whether or not these are killers we even want to see caught at all.
We Hunt Together follows the story of Freddy (Hermione Corfield), a young phone sex worker who feels very much like a slightly less violent version of Villanelle from Killing Eve. In the first episode, she meets Baba (Dipo Ola), a Congolese refugee working the nightshift at a club. When he rescues her from a date gone wrong - and beats the crap out of the man attempting to sexually assault her - a bond forms between them that quickly turns into romance.
