Consider the Hit Man
<em>Mr. Inbetween</em>, a new six-part drama on FX, uses the complex-assassin trope to mine the subject of masculinity.
If Bill Hader’s recent Emmy-winning turn as the HBO hit man was defined by reluctance, Scott Ryan’s Australian assassin, Ray, on the new FX series is blissfully untroubled by issues of ethical ambiguity. His code is simple. “How many people would you say you’ve assaulted?” an anger-management counselor asks him in the fourth episode. “Heaps,” Ray replies. How does he feel about that? “Fine. They had it coming to them.”
