12 12 12 Review

This is a spoiler-free review of the first two episodes of 12 12 12, streaming on Apple TV now. Apple TV’s 12 12 12 operates under these invented cardinal rules of a professional heist: It takes 12 months to plan, 12 hours to execute, and if the cops don’t catch the perpetrators in 12 days, they never will. (Why this didn’t premiere on December 12, I’ll never understand.) The series rests its entire weight on this premise, hopping between the three phases of a heist organized by Jamie Dornan’s Paul Galvin, a retired thief pulled back in for one last job, and the FBI agent relentlessly on his trail, Anthony Mackie’s Jack Strickland. The question is, then, does 12 12 12’s gimmick work? Based on the first two episodes, “I’m robbing the house on Christmas Eve while the family’s at mass” and “I Want My Halo Back,” the answer seems to be: not really.

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