... any views?
We're quite enjoying it. Mme v has read the book, I haven't.
Certainly watchable. I don't think Hugh Laurie is credible as 'the worst man in the world' * ; and the too-ever-present Olivia Colman (tho' we love her,,, ) is badly miscast here, not at all credible.
It's all a bit heart-on-sleeve goodies v too-obvious baddies, and not up there with the classic le Carré of TTSS and Smiley's People.
I think Andrew Billen in The Times got it right - "This is not Tinker Tailor. It’s The Man from U.N.C.L.E. relocated to Hotel Babylon — and far too much fun to be taken seriously. "
* I happen to know in real life various people involved in similarly unsavoury international 'deals' of this kind - and they are much more scary than Hugh Laurie's 'Mr Roper'...
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We're quite enjoying it. Mme v has read the book, I haven't.
Certainly watchable. I don't think Hugh Laurie is credible as 'the worst man in the world' * ; and the too-ever-present Olivia Colman (tho' we love her,,, ) is badly miscast here, not at all credible.
It's all a bit heart-on-sleeve goodies v too-obvious baddies, and not up there with the classic le Carré of TTSS and Smiley's People.
I think Andrew Billen in The Times got it right - "This is not Tinker Tailor. It’s The Man from U.N.C.L.E. relocated to Hotel Babylon — and far too much fun to be taken seriously. "
* I happen to know in real life various people involved in similarly unsavoury international 'deals' of this kind - and they are much more scary than Hugh Laurie's 'Mr Roper'...
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