The Night Manager

[Daniel]

I had no idea that we had members moonlighting as Albert Square residents!

To be honest these names are somewhat amorphous to me having only ever seen fragments of Eastenders about 25 years ago, but I assume 'Dirty Vin' also refers to this just googled fellow, who looks capable of filling any empty shoes. (If they ever need a Desperate Dan I may get a call I suppose, but my years at Dandy have left me the shell of a man.)

[Richard Tarleton]

Did we all spot the cameo?

[antongould]

Did we all spot the cameo?

Not Stephen Fry surely .......... ????

[Richard Tarleton]

David Cornwell! He's even in the cast list.

[antongould]

David Cornwell! He's even in the cast list.

Ah the Colin Dexter of the spy world ....

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Did we all spot the cameo?

Surely - if was any good at his former day job - none of us should have?

[Nick Armstrong]

Did we all spot the cameo?

Missed it! Too caught up in it. I continue to think this series absolutely brilliant.


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New big-screen Le Carré in mid-May:

[Richard Tarleton]

Missed it! Too caught up in it. I continue to think this series absolutely brilliant.

New big-screen Le Carré in mid-May:

Me too. The cameo - SPOILER ALERT -

JLeC was the restaurant guest in Mallorca for whom the lobster salad so rudely intercepted by Corky was intended.

Our Kind of Traitor should make a good film, though the actors on the poster don't remotely correspond to my mental image of the characters - that's the trouble, I prefer to keep my own casting! But Pine and Roper are pretty well spot-on.

[antongould]

Watched 3/4/5 back to back last night - wonderful television IMVVHO .....

[Nick Armstrong]

Watched 3/4/5 back to back last night - wonderful television IMVVHO .....

I saw 4 & 5 back to back last night. It is wonderful.

PS Thanks Richard - I remember it now. Was too busy watching Mr Hollander excelling himself....

[antongould]

Interesting, albeit short, interview with the screenwriter in today's Grauniad comic supplement

[Tevot]

Watched 3/4/5 back to back last night - wonderful television IMVVHO .....

I watched 1 and 2 last night and 3 this evening. The only thing stopping me from watching more tonight was dodgy connectivity affecting the iplayer.

Must agree with Anton and Caliban ; what a gripping drama. Laurie in what I've seen so far convinces as a rounded 'baddy' in Richard Roper (boy I hated 'House" which I thought 1 dimensional) and Tom Hollander's performance as Corky has been wonderful - comical, catty, sinister... He reminds me of Ian Holm.

And of course Tom Hiddlestone - (what big feet he has!) a convincing, 3 dimensional leading man who imho would make a first rate James Bond if the producers had the sense to offer him the part and the ability to fashion half decent screenplays. To be honest, I saw Spectre last week, and thought it woeful.

Anyway - back to Night Manager. Looking very much forward to seeing the remainder very soon.

Best Wishes,

Tevot

[Serial_Apologist]

So... My guess is that most on here found last night's conclusion too neat and tidy to merit further comment?

[Petrushka]

So... My guess is that most on here found last night's conclusion too neat and tidy to merit further comment?

Not really, just mindful of those who are using the Bank Holiday Monday to watch on I-player. Don't want to spoil it for them!

** SPOILER ALERT**

It's always difficult to avoid the feeling of anti-climax as a long and complicated plot needs to have the various webs and loose ends tied up. I think this succeeded as well as could be hoped for even though in reality loose ends never do get tied up do they? Apparently, this series cost £3 million per episode though I'm sure that it will recoup more than that with syndication to various foreign TV channels and DVD sales. I read somewhere that a second series is planned.

The BBC have given us some of the highest quality Sunday night TV ever this year in the shape of War and Peace and The Night Manager. The bar is being set very high for whatever follows.

[LeMartinPecheur]

So... My guess is that most on here found last night's conclusion too neat and tidy to merit further comment?

Umm, yes, a bit of that. The end did seem rather too neat and tidy for a late JLC: don't his post-cold war novels, esp. those featuring civilians with ideals, usually end a lot less tidily and 'happily', usually with idealist dead or utterly disillusioned because state powers have rubbed out whoever/ whatever he cared for?

The book is on my shelves - not actually sure whether I've read it...