Apple TV Mayday: Reynolds and Branagh Turn Cold War Peril Into Buddy Comedy
Apple TV is betting on star chemistry and a high-concept one-liner with Mayday, a Cold War road-trip action-comedy that drops Ryan Reynolds opposite Kenneth Branagh. The setup is gleefully unserious: an American pilot shot down over Russian territory, nursed back toward fighting shape by an ex-KGB operative who loves America a little too hard. Survival, …