Sun's out, guns out!

Crime capers and action comedies to binge all summer long.

- GENEVIEVE TERBLANCHE

Laughter isn’t just the best medicine, it’s the best weapon. There’s nothing like an action comedy or mystery to brighten up these long summer days with your crew. If you’re looking for shows that bring a banana and a bazooka to the gunfight, send in these clowns…

BARRY SEASONS 1-3

What if the thing you were best at was just the worst for you? Bill Hader and Alex Berg's brilliantly paced action dramedy series centres on a depressed, middle-aged hitman who becomes determined to change his career path after he stumbles across an acting class in sunny LA. But since his problem-solving tools are limited to shooting his way out of trouble, it's an uphill battle. We get all the absurdity of Barry (Bill Hader) in acting class between hits, along with a deep dive into Hollywood's criminal underworld, which is filled with offbeat characters posturing as if they're in an action movie. In Barry, everyone is going off script.

GET SHORTY SEASON 1-3

In more Hollywood noir comedy, Irish-born mobster Miles Daly (Chris O'Dowd) dreams of becoming a movie producer after he comes to Tinseltown to threaten the kneecaps of a debt-defaulting screenwriter. Together with down-on-his-luck, low-budget sex-and-horror movie producer Rick More weather (Ray Romano), Miles persuades the head of the Nevada mob, Amara (Lidia Porto), to invest in making a movie as a money laundering scheme. Their first project? A romantic comedy! Cue the violence and depravity as all the mobsters fall under Hollywood's spell, and claw their way through the industry's ruthless dealmakers with blood under their fingernails.

PEACEMAKER SEASON 1