JSJ Therapy

The wonderfully complex Hit and Miss provides a look into a transwoman’s life. The lead character also also happens to be a new parent and a contract killer. While it may seem like an improbable premise… it works.  No really it does. Go with me here… I’ll explain. Mia played by Chloë Sevigny, a woman in transition, finds out she has a son and goes to locate him when his mother has recently died. Once there she realizes that all the children in the household need a parental figure. She takes on the role as reluctantly as the children.

Mia is not your average woman, mother, or neighbor. However, her work background lends itself nicely to those that would try to injure her or the family.  She makes great strides to care for the kids, have a love life, and keep her job killing people separate from everything else.

There is a deeper point to this series though. I was ever so curious to see o how the show would handle her transition personally for the Mia character, with the kids, the locals, and her career. The series is painful to watch at times. I say this while still highly recommending the show. The poignant moments are woven within and worth the time to watch. It isn’t an easy process coming to accept with your body even when you are “passing” (a term I dislike but is often used). The show hints at the deeper themes that Mia had, and still has to,  get through to be at the point where she is now.

Her son asks her direct questions about her body, gender, and the complexity of their relationship because of transition. You get to see the love and care she has for this child, all the while dealing with her own fears and pains of what it is like to transition. Mia’s past isn’t a simple one but the short series takes the viewer through some of the huge hurtles of transitioning.

Of course, Mia’s love life is complicated, how could it be otherwise?   It becomes obvious that many people are interested in Mia romantically but how she deals with her own body and sharing the information is heart wrenching. The series doesn’t shy away from hard truths, complex layers, or real issues for someone in transition (sans contract killing). The dialogue is well written and at various times I welled up with tears. One such line was  (in the trailer above) “If things didn’t change, there wouldn’t be any butterflies.”

And that is the truth about life. We are all in transition…. we are all changing. We might be scared of what change is and how it works, but through it … we are stronger better people. So if you know and love people in transition, never heard about it till now, or are just curious… I do suggest  you watch the tv series Hit and Miss.  It does a decent job of looking at (even if it is only scratching the surface) some of the emotional turns that a woman in transition deals with on a regular basis.