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 When James Cameron's "True Lies" hit theaters in 1994, the story of a muscular spy (Arnold Schwarzenegger) working as a computer salesman while his bored wife (Jamie Lee Curtis) found secret ways to pursue a purpose was funny, fresh and provocative. Fast forward nearly 30 years, and many of the film's tropes and stereotypes just don't hold up. So when it came to adapting the movie into a TV show, the changes were necessary. Unfortunately, when updating the material, showrunner Matt Nix failed to keep to the essence of what made the movie so funny in the first place: the lies between husband and wife. Stars: Ginger Gonzaga, Steve Howey, Annabella Didion Like the movie, the TV show centers on a spy named Harry (Steve Howey). His wife, Helen (Ginger Gonzaga), and his two teenage children think he's a boring computer salesman with too many business trips under his belt and no sense of adventure. Helen, a linguistics teacher, is bored with her routine life and cra...