Oscar-Winning Legend Humiliates Himself With Ryan Reynolds

Apple TV Mayday (September 4, Apple TV) is so unintentionally—if, given its title, aptly—distressing that it’s difficult to pinpoint its worst element. Is it the fact that this odd-couple action-comedy features main characters who aren’t actually at odds? Is it its absurd and off-putting Cold War politics, which posit the U.S. as not as great as it thinks it is and the Soviet Union as better than it was portrayed stateside? Or is it the fact that one of our great Shakespearean actors has…