Mr Inbetween is an Australian black comedy-crime drama television series which premiered on FX on 25 September 2018 in the United States,[1] followed by Fox Showcase in Australia on 1 October 2018.

Set within the suburbs of Sydney,[11] Raymond "Ray" Shoesmith (Scott Ryan) is a hitman for hire who makes a life out of balancing his criminal activities with his obligations to friends and family.

He tries to be a father to Brittany (Chika Yasumura), his daughter with his ex-wife, Jacinta (Natalie Tran), a loving boyfriend to Ally (Brooke Satchwell), and a good caretaker to his terminally ill brother Bruce (Nicholas Cassim).

Gary is beaten into a coma during an arms deal done alongside Vasilli, who Ray attacks after realizing his story is partially fabricated.

Ray attends a court-ordered anger management therapy session following his beating of the youths who cursed in front of Brittany, where he is almost ejected after baiting another attendee into a fight.

That night, Ray notices Davros' men watching his house and lures them to a remote area, where he kills them with a Patchett submachine gun gifted to him by Gary.

He is later kidnapped by Dave and Bobby, two hitmen hired by Davros to collect and deliver Ray to him, but stalls for time by revealing he has a strongbox hidden holding more money than they are doing the job for.

The hitmen privately plan to take the money and deliver him to Davros anyway, and Ray leads them to the strongbox but claims to not remember the combination.

He leaves Dave alive out of respect and buries the bodies, getting a call from Ally and claiming he will be late to meet her because of work obligations.

Ray visits the mother of Brittany's classmate after learning she is being cyberbullied, but she remains adamant of her daughter's innocence and sends the police to his house after feeling she is being threatened.

Pointed in the direction of Dennis Miller, a convicted pedophile who was the prime suspect in her disappearance, Ray drowns and tases him until he admits he murdered her and stashed the body in a train tunnel.

At a Christmas party with Ally's family, he attacks her brother when he takes a gift meant for Brittany during a game of Secret Santa.

When he tries to blame it on his inability to smoke and de-stress, Ally tells him that she left her similarly violent fiancée of three years after he started attacking her, and that she loves him but cannot risk it happening again, ultimately leaving him.

He and Ally see each other at a supermarket and she leaves in a hurry, provoking him to drive to a park where she etched a heart into a tree for him and destroy it with an axe.

Bruce, now needing a wheelchair and not wanting to live with his disease any longer, indulges Brittany's obsession with being an actress by reenacting Romeo and Juliet with her.

When he asks for the money they were going to pay him and is refused, he, Gary and Dave attack the men, killing them all except for the leader, who dies from his injuries after lamenting leading his friends to their deaths.

Rafael hires Ray to do another job, disposing of an overdosed woman's body by feeding it to a drift of pigs, but he instead decides to bury it in the nearby woods.

Ray and Brittany argue once she comes down from her high, but ultimately have a discussion where he admits he wants to shelter her from the evil he sees in the world, but acknowledges he cannot protect her forever and asks that she talk to him if she feels she needs to, which she agrees to.

Rafael promises to take the grievously injured Zoe to the hospital, while Ray drives the couple's RV out into the desert, buries their bodies, and spends the next day hiking back to civilization.

Some time later, Ray has gained weight, grown his hair out, and started working as a taxi driver, keeping the picture he took of Zoe in his car's sun visor.

The site's critical consensus reads, "Mr Inbetween's familiar setup is quickly forgiven thanks to its expertly built tension and a mesmerizing performance from Scott Ryan".

[34] The Hollywood Reporter called it "One of 2018's best shows... Creator-writer-actor Scott Ryan and director Nash Edgerton deliver a tour de force that gets a lot done in very little time".

[35] Entertainment Weekly named it one of Fall 2018's Must-Watch TV, praising the show's dark comedic tone; "Ryan radiates a casual toughness, like he's cheerfully counting your most breakable bones.

[37] The New York Times included it on their "Best of Fall 2018 TV" list, stating "The balance between dread and deadpan laughs is adroitly maintained, and there's an appealing casual improvisatory vibe".

[38] The Boston Globe said of the show's first season, "The killer with a heart of gold isn't a new trope, of course; viewers have repeatedly been put in the position of moral compromise in the past two decades, most recently with HBO's Barry.

[40] Alan Sepinwall of Rolling Stone praised it, stating "The huge improvement from an already solid first season to this tremendous second one has me wondering if Mr. Inbetween has another big leap in it — or if spending even more time in Ray Shoesmith's world might force Ryan, and us, to start empathizing too much with this very dangerous man".

[41] Ben Travers from IndieWire said, "Pair these deeper thoughts with sharp dialogue, an ideally grubby aesthetic, and strong supporting characters, and Mr. Inbetween ends up a rewarding experience worth much more exploration".

[42] Screen Rant gave it a positive review, saying "Season 2 elevates the series on nearly every level, from Ryan's writing and acting to the performances of the supporting cast and the directing of Nash Edgerton".

The New York Times ranked it on their list of "Best TV Shows of 2021"[45] calling it "a smart, deadpan, quietly daft deconstruction of tough-guy clichés".

The slightest overstatement or sentimentality could capsize the delicate sendup of tough-guy clichés, but Ryan (who writes all the episodes and plays the protagonist, Ray Shoesmith) rarely makes a wrong step".