5/10
Odd even for a Japanese series
25 April 2022
Warning: Spoilers
The premise is interesting: a former secret agent leaves her exciting life behind to become a housewife but finds it boring and so uses her spy skills to address social issues in her suburban neighborhood. This she does with the help of two other housewives ( who don't know her real identity) and occasional support from her husband who seems ignorant of her past.

It's an uneven combination of comic juxtaposition ( spies in suburbia) and serious social issues ( spousal abuse, bullying, etc). As a result the comedy is watered down (the lead is supposed to be bad at being a housewife but the only evidence of that is her inability to make a salad in her immaculately clean kitchen). And the social issues become hard to take seriously when the problems are so quickly resolved by some good old fashioned "butt-kicking" by the former spy. And the series ends on a weird cliffhanger. ( I think it's followed up by a movie where they finish out the story line but I doubt I'll try and watch it).
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