Netflix is the streaming colossus that brings a thousand shows to your thumb every week while promising bingeable thrills, plot twists, and existential dread between ad breaks. Scroll, click, and somehow always end up lost in a rabbit hole of identical titles and plotlines that may or may not be related. Case in point: Hit & Run, which shares a name with a 2012 Kristen Bell movie, sending fans into full-blown panic over whether it is somehow connected.

Some shows are twins separated at birth, while others just share a name. Netflix viewers are about to learn which is which, and it is far messier than expected.

No, Netflix’s Hit & Run (2021) is not connected to the 2012 movie Hit & Run starring Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard. Despite sharing the same title and both being available on Netflix at times, the two are completely separate productions with different genres, storylines, and casts. The 2021 series is a thriller centered on a man in Tel Aviv investigating his wife’s mysterious death, while the 2012 film is an action-comedy about a former getaway driver on a wild road trip.

The confusion is understandable, given the identical titles and streaming platform overlap. However, there is no narrative or creative link between them. The series, co-created by Avi Issacharoff and Lior Raz, leans into political thriller and crime drama, while the movie, written and co-directed by Dax Shepard, is purely a lighthearted action-comedy. In short, the shared name is just a coincidence, and fans can enjoy each separately without expecting any crossover.

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As viewers debate titles, the internet is now asking whether other twin shows like Ángela actually share DNA or are just riding the accidental-name train straight to confusion.

Just like with Hit & Run, Netflix viewers initially wondered if the new series Ángela was connected to the 2021 UK thriller Angela Black. The nearly identical titles sparked debate, with some assuming it was a reboot or continuation. Unlike Hit & Run, however, there is a real link: Ángela is the Spanish adaptation of Angela Black, reimagining the psychological thriller for a new audience while keeping the suspenseful core intact.

Starring Verónica Sánchez, Daniel Grao, and Jaime Zatarain, Ángela follows the unraveling life of its titular character as dark secrets about her husband and inner circle emerge. With six tightly woven episodes directed by Norberto López, the series retains the tension and intrigue that made the original compelling. Unlike the original UK version, which streams on platforms like Acorn TV, Apple TV, and Amazon Prime, Netflix viewers can now experience the story in a fresh, Spanish-language adaptation, proving that sometimes, similar titles really do mean there is a connection.

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