The Night Manager

[Nick Armstrong]

Hugo Rifkind was equally enthusiastic - I think his review was better (meatier, more specific) than AA Gill's : I particularly liked -

"These people exist, that’s the thing, and the magic of Le Carré is how well he seems to know them. They’re the backdrop of those grainy photographs you’ll see when George Osborne or Peter Mandelson meet oligarchs on a yacht. They do own their own islands, and they do make a killing, and they did go to Eton, and you haven’t ever heard of any of them. Brilliantly done. I’m so glad it’s on."

Any choice quotes from AA Gill nonetheless, v, for we who don't indulge in the cost of The Sunday Times?

[Richard Tarleton]

Any choice quotes from AA Gill nonetheless, v, for we who don't indulge in the cost of The Sunday Times?

Alas it's gone to recycling, but apart from remarks on the acting and how BBC and JLeC are made for each other, generally rejoicing in how the BBC has come up with a decent drama that doesn't depend on costumes and scrunching gravel (it being a favourite complaint of his that all costume dramas begin with the scrunch of carriage wheels on gravel - he hates costume drama, I think it's fair to say).

[jean]

...for we...

What's all this creeping hypercorrection?

I blame Tippsy.

[Nick Armstrong]

Alas it's gone to recycling, but apart from remarks on the acting and how BBC and JLeC are made for each other, generally rejoicing in how the BBC has come up with a decent drama that doesn't depend on costumes and scrunching gravel (it being a favourite complaint of his that all costume dramas begin with the scrunch of carriage wheels on gravel - he hates costume drama, I think it's fair to say).

Yes, that's visible in the little free chunk they allow you on the website sans paying.

I thought it was a bit naff how Coleman and her US confederate had their debrief (after the meeting with the MI6 mandarins) about leaving 'The River House' out of it, expressing their satisfaction about how they'd successfully manipulated the mandarins, walking and standing mere feet from 'The River House' - well within range of cameras etc. I think I would have kept up the pretence until I was at least round the corner...

[Nick Armstrong]

What's all this creeping hypercorrection?

I blame Tippsy.

You've got me there...

[jean]

Dancing is for the ladies and savages.

It was never, ever meant for we gentlemen.

To which it was objected:

I presumed it was a typo for "wee" - after all, no well-educated person would say "for we gentlemen" (or "for we ladies"). ("For unto we a Son is born"?)

That must be the explanation!

I had thought it was an example of the hypercorrection so typical of the socially insecure.

(Sorry, should have been relegated to the Pedantry thread.)

[vinteuil]

Any choice quotes from AA Gill nonetheless, v, for we who don't indulge in the cost of The Sunday Times?

... handy hint for us who perhaps don't buy The Times or The Sunday Times : you can get a free copy with your waitrose card.

What'd'you mean, you haven't got a waitrose card...

[jean]

But then you couldn't use your card to get a free Observer.

[Nick Armstrong]

Some of we don't want to lug around and then dispose of all that wretched paper...

Not when us have kind friends to supply the relevant items electronically (and to supply suitable grammatical admonishments).

[Richard Tarleton]

... handy hint for us
What'd'you mean, you haven't got a waitrose card...

Some of us haven't even even got a Waitrose. Our nearest branch is in Barry, 92.9 miles away. All very well for you metropolitan types.

[Nick Armstrong]

What a great series! I found Episode 3 completely engrossing.

SPOILER ALERT

One thing puzzled me. How did Pine and Burr (via new ally Apo) independently know to seek to undermine Corkoran by reference to his drinking? There seemed to have been no communication between them about it...

[mercia]

There seemed to have been no communication between them about it...

in the ice-cream queue ?

[Nick Armstrong]

in the ice-cream queue ?

He managed to convey to her via talking with the boy that Corkoran 'didn't like him' but not that the latter was a boozer. Did he? I'll look again...

[eighthobstruction]

....codswallop on the whole tho' eh???!!!....

....Gord helpus Hiddlestone being touted for James Bond....no, no ,no NO....did anyone else see his brown nosing Ref Robert de Nero on Graham Norton.... Ugh embarassing (also embarassing you now know I sometimes watch GN)....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFhhPDcPNvI

[vinteuil]

....codswallop on the whole tho' eh???!!!....

... o, it's total tosh - but quite watchable. Absurd plot, caricature baddies (Roper, but more particularly the slimy MI6 counterjumpers) - but porn-glamour locations, pretty ladies, hunky guys.

What is sad is that it has none of the qualities of the old le Carré of the Smiley period - the subtle sad greys...