Hit & Run (TV series)

Hit & Run (Hebrew: פגע וברח, romanized: Paga U'varach) is an Israeli-American thriller television series created and written by Avi Issacharoff, Lior Raz, Dawn Prestwich, and Nicole Yorkin. The series premiered on 6 August 2021 on Netflix.^[1] In September 2021, the series was canceled after one season.^[2]

Hit & Run
Hebrew	פגע וברח
Genre	Thriller Action Crime Drama
Created by	Avi Issacharoff Dawn Prestwich Lior Raz Nicole Yorkin
Written by	Avi Issacharoff Dawn Prestwich Lior Raz Nicole Yorkin Jessica Brickman Ali Selim
Directed by	Mike Barker Neasa Hardiman Rotem Shamir
Starring	Lior Raz Lior Ashkenazi Sanaa Lathan Kaelen Ohm
Composer	Peter Raeburn
Country of origin	Israel United States
Original languages	English Hebrew
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	9
Production
Executive producers	Lior Raz Mike Barker Kimberlin Belloni Peter Principato Itay Reiss Avi Issacharoff Dawn Prestwich Nicole Yorkin David Hoberman Todd Lieberman Laurie Zaks
Production locations	Jerusalem, Israel Tel Aviv, Israel New York, United States
Original release
Network	Netflix
Release	August 6, 2021 (2021-08-06)

Synopsis

Hit and Run centers on a happily married man, Segev Azulai, whose life is turned upside down when his wife is killed in a mysterious hit and run accident in Tel Aviv. Grief-stricken and confused, he searches for his wife’s killers, who have fled to the U.S. With the help of an ex-lover, Naomi Hicks, he uncovers disturbing truths about his beloved wife and the secrets she kept from him.

Episodes

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date [3]
1	"Hit & Run"	Mike Barker[4]	Nicole Yorkin & Dawn Prestwich and Lior Raz & Avi Issacharoff	August 6, 2021 (2021-08-06)
2	"Love & Loss"	Rotem Shamir	Story by : Nicole Yorkin & Dawn Prestwich and Lior Raz & Avi Issacharoff Teleplay by : Nicole Yorkin & Dawn Prestwich and Lior Raz & Avi Issacharoff and Lauren Mackenzie & Andrew Gettens	August 6, 2021 (2021-08-06)
3	"Friends & Foes"	Mike Barker	Lydia Woodward	August 6, 2021 (2021-08-06)
4	"Breaking & Entering"	Mike Barker	Wes Taylor	August 6, 2021 (2021-08-06)
5	"Flesh & Blood"	Neasa Hardiman	Jessica Brickman	August 6, 2021 (2021-08-06)
6	"Hide & Seek"	Neasa Hardiman	Ali Selim	August 6, 2021 (2021-08-06)
7	"Part & Parcel"	Neasa Hardiman	Lauren Mackenzie & Andrew Gettens	August 6, 2021 (2021-08-06)
8	"Prose & Cons"	Mike Barker	Wes Taylor	August 6, 2021 (2021-08-06)
9	"Search & Destroy"	Mike Barker	Story by : Nicole Yorkin & Dawn Prestwich and Lior Raz & Avi Issacharoff and Wes Taylor Teleplay by : Nicole Yorkin & Dawn Prestwich	August 6, 2021 (2021-08-06)

Cast

• Lior Raz as Segev Azulai^[5]
• Lior Ashkenazi as Assaf Talmor^[6]
• Sanaa Lathan as Naomi Hicks^[7]
• Kaelen Ohm as Danielle Wexler Azulai^[5] / Sophie Dreyer
• Moran Rosenblatt as Tali Shapira^[5]
• Gregg Henry as Martin Wexler^[5]
• Gal Toren as Ron Harel^[5]

Production and distribution

Hit & Run was written by Avi Issacharoff, Lior Raz, Dawn Prestwich, and Nicole Yorkin.^[8] Mike Barker directed the pilot and 3 other episodes; Neasa Hardiman and Rotem Shamir directed 3 and 2 episodes, respectively.^[4] This is the first Netflix original series from Israel.^{[citation needed]} On 20 September 2021, after mediocre streaming success, Netflix canceled the series after one season.^[2]

Release

On 12 July 2021, Netflix released the first trailer for the series.^[9] The series premiered on 6 August 2021.^[1]

Reception

Daniel Feinberg panned the show, writing for The Hollywood Reporter that any "momentum Hit & Run builds in the early episodes - and it builds a tremendous amount - basically dissipates due to increasingly dumb narrative developments."^[10] In the Decider, Joel Keller recommends the show saying the show "boasts a fine international cast, an interesting premise, and opens up a lot of story avenues without confusing the viewer".^[11]