PICK OF THE WEEK

Run Neon, from Monday; SoHo2, 8:30pm Thursday

We don’t really speak of it but a lot of us have probably been wondering how our exes are doing these past couple of weeks. Not even our most recent exes, necessarily, could be the ones we dated for a couple of months when we were 19. What if they were The One?

The best advice in this situation is to avoid the temptation to make contact.

Don’t message them out of the blue on Facebook, don’t start going past their house every day hoping to bump into them on your stupid little walk and certainly don’t honour any ill-considered pacts you might have made together 16 years ago.

Unless, of course, you’re Merritt Wever and Domhnall Gleeson in new show Run — then it’s cool.

It all starts with Ruby (Wever) in the car, at the shops, about to go to yoga. A phone call from her partner, asking her to do some boring daily admin. “I love you too,” a deep dissatisfied sigh. Then a text: "RUN".

She has a mild freak out, then texts back: "RUN". It all happens so fast. Next thing you know she’s at Grand Central Station, buying emergency hairspray and lipstick at a shop called Glamour Fresh, rushing to catch the first train after 5, which is where she bumps into Billy (Gleeson) telling someone on the phone that he’s in Scotland. “Can I call you back?”

Created by Vicky Jones, who directed the original stage production of Fleabag (Phoebe Waller-Bridge is an executive producer here, and appears a little later in the series), Run has the same unpredictable, breath-of-fresh-air energy that the Waller-Bridge-directed Killing Eve had when it first arrived a couple of years ago. (Side note for Killing Eve fans: season three is on TVNZ OnDemand this week.)

Is it a rom com? Is it a thriller? Weirdly, it’s kind of both.