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Hit & Miss

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Hit & Miss (2012) is a six-episode Sky Atlantic drama series starring American actress Chloë Sevigny utilizing an Irish accent.It has a simple (if bizarre) premise, following as it does transgender hitwoman Mia as she discovers that she has a son by her late former girlfriend, Wendy, and attempts to bring her family together. The show did not get renewed for a second series.
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Underestimating Badassery
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Underestimating Badassery: Something everyone does to Mia. Especially the landlord.
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Punch-Clock Villain
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Punch-Clock Villain: Mia doesn't actually seem to enjoy killing people, nor is she a sociopath; she's just really good at it.
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Mia gives one to the Landlord who's been giving her trouble.
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Parental Abandonment
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Parental Abandonment: Wendy dies and leaves her four kids alone, as none of their fathers were involved. Mia, who'd fathered Ryan while involved with her but wasn't aware before of her son (she's now transitioning) is told and steps up to raise them, sparking the plot. Riley, the oldest, had taken care of her younger siblings already though.
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Empty Shell
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Empty Shell: Mia's mother in the last episode. After a fashion, anyway; she seems barely aware of the world.
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Dead Guy Junior
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Dead Guy Junior: Sort of. Mia's son Ryan is named after her male identity. So "Ryan" would have been dead to Wendy.
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Averted so far. It's almost impossible to tell that Sevigny is American.
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Traumatic Haircut
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Traumatic Haircut: Mia's brother inflicts one on her.
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OnceAnEpisode
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Once an Episode: A nude scene showing off the prosthetic and someone dies.
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Male Frontal Nudity
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Male Frontal Nudity: Mia is shown to be a trans woman right in one of her first scenes, showing that she has a penis while she's getting into the shower (Mia's saving for sex reassignment surgery). She continues being seen naked in other scenes as well ("male" obviously only refers to anatomy here).
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Affably Evil
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Affably Evil: Eddie seems friendly enough, but don't piss him off.
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Corruption of a Minor
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Corruption of a Minor: Eddie takes a special interest in Levi and decides to pay him to move "packages" and take messages about "jobs" being done.
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Auto Erotica
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Auto Erotica: John has sex with Riley in his truck once.
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What Does She See in Him?
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What Does She See in Him?: John is a thoroughly loathsome human being with apparently no capacity for empathy, a violent streak (it's implied he abuses his wife, let alone everything he does on-screen to Riley), and a general flair for being an asshole. Yet, somehow, he has both a loyal wife and, for most of the series, a fervently devoted teenage mistress.
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Late Coming Out
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Late Coming Out: Mia is a trans woman, who transitioned after having a son with her girlfriend while she's in her late thirties (judging by the actress's age).
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Sympathetic Murderer
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Sympathetic Murderer: Riley murders John, who's a colossal abusive asshole, to break free from him.
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Trans Equals Gay
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Trans Equals Gay: Played with. This is assumed by Wendy's children and Ben; defied by Mia.
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Asshole Victim
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Asshole Victim: Riley murders John, an abusive jerkass, when she's had enough of him, and she clearly doesn't want to have their baby under his thumb too.
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Questionable Consent
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Questionable Consent: Riley is a teenage girl (of indeterminate age) who's sexually involved with John, her landlord. Most times he doesn't ask before having sex with her, and Riley looks pretty unhappy. On the other hand, she seems pretty devoted to him at first. Eventually she kills John to be rid of him though.
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In the Blood
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In the Blood: For Leonie and Liam, hallucinations. For Mia and Ryan, badassery.
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Oop North
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Oop North: Set and filmed in and near Manchester.
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Wall Bang Her
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Wall Bang Her: John comes across Riley doing chores and then has sex with her up against a wall.
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Foreshadowing
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Foreshadowing: We see the kids' stalker playing on a sports therapy football team for men with learning disabilities and mental health problems that Ben runs before he takes Leonie or is revealed to be their mentally ill uncle.
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Samus Is a Girl
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Samus Is a Girl: Surprise, the hooded killer in the first five minutes of the first episode is our female protagonist! Then that she's also trans since we see her penis while in the shower.
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Double-Meaning Title
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Double-Meaning Title: Mia's a female (miss) hitman trying to maneuver her way in a family that seems ambivalent at best and actively wanting her out at worst.
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Sexual Extortion
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Sexual Extortion: John had an "arrangement" with Wendy and tries to have the same with Mia. She pretends to acquiesce, only to have him agree to the arrangement she'd like at gunpoint.
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Easy Sex Change
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Easy Sex Change: Averted. Mia has to take hormone pills and use hormone cream; she starts to panic when she misses them for a single day. She's also still saving up for sex reassignment surgery.
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Dysfunctional Family
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Dysfunctional Family: Oh, Lord. Ryan's withdrawn and being bullied, Levi spends his afternoons assaulting girls by pulling their clothing up or down to reveal undergarments and snapping photos, Riley's fucking the asshole landlord actively trying to kick them out at every turn, and Leonie cuts off her dolls' hair to resemble her mother during chemotherapy and tries to communicate with her through them. For all her issues with connecting with the family, the fact that Mia's actually trying makes her the most well-adjusted member and she kills people for a living!
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Twofer Token Minority
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Twofer Token Minority: Riley is a biracial girl (white mother, unseen black father), the sole person of color in the otherwise all white cast.
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Queer Establishing Moment
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Queer Establishing Moment: Maia is established as a pre-op trans woman very early on via undressing to take a shower, showing that she has breasts but also a penis.
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Really Gets Around
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Really Gets Around: Wendy had kids with three men at least, not to mention trans woman Mia (she's got four overall), while also being involved with her landlord in return for living there before she died.
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Professional Killer
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Professional Killer: Mia is a hitwoman and very skilled at her job.
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Cliffhanger
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Cliffhanger: The series ends Eddie pointing a gun at Mia's head, while Ryan aims a rifle at Eddie. The series was not renewed.
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DefeatEqualsFriendship
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Defeat Equals Friendship: After the punch in the head, Aaron seems to stop bullying Ryan and actually become his friend for... some reason.
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I Wished You Were Dead
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I Wished You Were Dead: In one of the most positively intentioned iterations of this trope, Ryan prayed that his terminally-afflicted-with-cancer mom would be taken away by angels so she wouldn't have to suffer anymore, but still felt responsible for her death when it came.
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Cheerful Child
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Cheerful Child: Despite (or because of) hallucinating her mother (or does she receive visitations from her ghost?), Leonie seems reasonably blithe.
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Sex for Services
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Sex for Services: Wendy and John had an "arrangement" before her death, with her having sex with him so her family could stay on his property.
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Surprise Pregnancy
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Surprise Pregnancy: Riley gets unintentionally pregnant from John.
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Mama Bear
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Mama Bear: Ben has apparently never heard of this trope, because he calls the violent look in Mia's eyes when the family finds the man who took Leonie "not very lady-like" and wonders if there's still "a bit of man" in her.
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Insane Equals Violent
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Insane Equals Violent: Surprisingly subverted with the man who took Leonie, who turns out to be Wendy's brother Liam.
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Snap Back
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Snapback: The show does not deal with the ramifications of Mia getting injured badly and taken to hospital. (Either the actual injury or getting taken to hospital? Maybe in Season 2, which won't happen.) Also ignored: Ryan's behavior at school.
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Promotion to Parent
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Promotion to Parent: Riley, to the point of actively trying to keep Mia from having anything to do with the family.
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Raven Hair, Ivory Skin
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Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Mia is pretty classically Irish in appearance and gets a lot of male attention (including male attention she'd just as soon not get from her skeevy landlord).
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Creepy Child
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Creepy Child: Ryan gets a moment of this in the third episode, when he responds to being told to dissect a frog by holding a scalpel to his own throat, then stabbing the teacher's tie into the desk.
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Lady of War
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Lady of War: Zig-zagged. Mia glamors it up off the job, but dresses very practically (and, probably, deliberately androgynously) when taking out a mark.
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