Lethal Weapon gets extra points for proving the buddy cop action-comedy is not dead, and Clayne Crawford and Damon Wayans’ chemistry in the face of chaos makes up for the show’s more predictable elements.
This serialized take on the Richard Donner/Shane Black original is faithful to the general outline of Lethal Weapon’s familiar story while not harping on impersonating it, and it’s one of the most genuinely fun romps Fox has delivered in years.
Studios have been hard up for turning movies into TV shows in the past few years, but rather than talk about the flash-in-the-pan failures, it’s much more fun to talk about Fox’s bomb-in-the-anything reboot of Lethal Weapon.