I PM'ed this earlier to a pal and wanted to share.
"I've been enjoying the BBC's "The Night Manager" on AMC. The book, so well written by John Le Carre, was released in 1993 and I'm currently re-reading it as I watch the series. While the locations have shifted from the Caribbean to the Med and there's been a few gender changes & subplot additions, the main actors - Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie - are superb. The action is violent and the dialogue crisp as hell. I hope you're watching it, my friend. This is right down your alley."
Please know that I'm no Anglophile snob for the BBC - although I can't wait for Season Three of "Peaky Blinders" on Netflix. ("PB" is "The Sopranos" set in post WWI Birmingham and it's damned good. Maybe some of the best television I've watched in years.) Our English cousins produce the same rate of crap as the Yanks do, but anything done well is worth being called out.
Fnord
"I've been enjoying the BBC's "The Night Manager" on AMC. The book, so well written by John Le Carre, was released in 1993 and I'm currently re-reading it as I watch the series. While the locations have shifted from the Caribbean to the Med and there's been a few gender changes & subplot additions, the main actors - Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie - are superb. The action is violent and the dialogue crisp as hell. I hope you're watching it, my friend. This is right down your alley."
Please know that I'm no Anglophile snob for the BBC - although I can't wait for Season Three of "Peaky Blinders" on Netflix. ("PB" is "The Sopranos" set in post WWI Birmingham and it's damned good. Maybe some of the best television I've watched in years.) Our English cousins produce the same rate of crap as the Yanks do, but anything done well is worth being called out.
Fnord