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 The Night Manager is a six part espionage drama miniseries starting on AMC next week. It's based on a novel by John le Carré (who also wrote Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy among a host of other espionage novels that have been adapted to screen) and was co-produced by the BBC. It stars Tom Hiddleston (Loki from the Marvel universe films) and Hugh Laurie (Dr House MD).  Here's a trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoJ3lu03jug&hd=1 Being a primarily British series, it's already aired in England and other parts of the world. And it's excellent. Here's some quotes from the wikipedia page: quote:“One of the greatest series of all time”. Anyway, it's really good. I just finished watching it and noticed there wasn't a thread for it here and that it's about to start airing in the US. So here's a thread. You should watch it! monkeu fucked around with this message at 04:35 on Apr 13, 2016 |
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this show is some good poo poo.
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Apr 13, 2016 10:51
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The BBC version is 6 parts, I believe the version shown on AMC will be 8 parts due to commercials. Anyway yeah it's a really good show.
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Apr 13, 2016 11:01
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Wandle Cax posted:The BBC version is 6 parts, I believe the version shown on AMC will be 8 parts due to commercials. Anyway yeah it's a really good show. That's a loving travesty. Which episodes are they planning on butchering? All of them? Edit: the AMC website says six episodes so hopefully a false alarm? http://www.amc.com/shows/the-night-manager/exclusives/about-the-show
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Apr 13, 2016 11:11
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Is it going to be on Hulu or Netflix or anything for us plebs without cable?
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Apr 13, 2016 21:26
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It's really good, really compelling. And the whole cast is great.
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Apr 13, 2016 21:51
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Astrofig posted:Is it going to be on Hulu or Netflix or anything for us plebs without cable? I don't know anything for certain, but AMC stuff usually ends up on Netflix and BBC stuff usually ends up on Netflix too, so I'd say there's a pretty good chance that it will after it finishes airing.
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Apr 14, 2016 01:46
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Just watched the first episode and left extremely disappointed. The cinematography was unappealing, the pacing glacial, everything was angsty and annoying, the plot was kind of weird and uninteresting, and the romance/whatever-it-was at the beginning felt completely forced and downright disturbing. Not going to watch the remainder of the episodes. Great acting by Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddleston, but they couldn't salvage this. No idea how this got such good reviews. Boring and annoying.
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Apr 17, 2016 20:26
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PederP posted:Just watched the first episode and left extremely disappointed. The cinematography was unappealing, the pacing glacial, everything was angsty and annoying, the plot was kind of weird and uninteresting, and the romance/whatever-it-was at the beginning felt completely forced and downright disturbing. Not going to watch the remainder of the episodes. Great acting by Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddleston, but they couldn't salvage this. No idea how this got such good reviews. Boring and annoying. Wow it sounds like AMC must have completely rewritten and reshot the first episode. Or maybe you came into this expecting Burn Notice or Hawaii Five-0 when this is a character driven espionage drama?
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Apr 17, 2016 22:11
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PederP posted:Just watched the first episode and left extremely disappointed. The cinematography was unappealing, the pacing glacial, everything was angsty and annoying, the plot was kind of weird and uninteresting, and the romance/whatever-it-was at the beginning felt completely forced and downright disturbing. Not going to watch the remainder of the episodes. Great acting by Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddleston, but they couldn't salvage this. No idea how this got such good reviews. Boring and annoying. If it helps, I wasn't totally blown away by the first ep, but it REALLY picked up after that and I thoroughly enjoyed the series as a whole.
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Apr 18, 2016 07:24
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It's a bit unfair to judge the whole thing just on the first episode when it's pretty much all setup for the remaining five. I really enjoyed this for the most part and it was compelling enough to marathon through. At first it was hard to buy Hugh Laurie as a villain because I grew up with A Bit of Fry and Laurie and Blackadder and thought House MD was garbage, but he ends up delivering. Dude can be creepy as all hell. Hiddleston I've never been a huge fan of and he comes across as pretty drat bland for the most of it but it works when he's playing second fiddle to Laurie or Holland (who loving ruled in this). Olivia Colman was great too but that's almost pointless to say since she's great in everything.
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Apr 18, 2016 09:31
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this is pretty dumb, but Laurie's character name being Richard Roeper is annoying the hell out of me.
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Apr 18, 2016 10:46
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The first episode is definitely the weakest. It's the least connected and serves to get most of the exposition and backstory for the actual story arc done. That said, it's a slow burn series with moments of intensity. If you need everything to be a tight, fast paced package, this isn't going to appeal to you.
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Apr 19, 2016 06:25
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There is a stunning lack of intro sequence gifs in this thread. Time to rectify that.     Very nicely done.
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Apr 20, 2016 15:58
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Just watched this, it's amazing. Of course I knew it would be with Hiddleston and Laurie.
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Apr 21, 2016 02:27
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I made it about 30 minutes into the first episode before I stopped watching and considered deleting it from my DVR because of how terribly boring it was. I wasn't expecting spoon-fed, canned action (because I hate that crap), but could've used something akin to the pilot of Justified or Luther to have me staring at the screen. The only reason I made it to episode two is The People's Couch, which did a riff of it and fast-forwarded through the rest to show me what happened in about 4 minutes, and it's gone from "tedious" to "alright". e- Never mind, I'm glad I stuck with this. CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 16:25 on May 1, 2016 |
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May 1, 2016 15:11
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How is this show not getting more love?
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May 25, 2016 04:06
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I thought it was great. After the finale, I read some of the changes from the novel; honestly the novel sounds dreary and annoying, but I suppose that's Le Carre.
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May 26, 2016 02:52
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This show was dumb as hell, but it was enjoyable enough in a pulpy way. RIP Dickie Roper, you were really stupid and now you're dead.
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May 26, 2016 03:29
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Amusing this was adapted from a novel series that a DS9 episode took its title from (and loosely the period setting)  Is there any more planned?
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May 26, 2016 03:30
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I may have missed it, but where did the 300 million end up?
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May 26, 2016 03:31
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The finale was confusing as gently caress. Pine begins this show as a night manager in Cairo and meets Roper, et al there. In the finale Pine tells them he had never been to Cairo, etc. There were a ton of small bits like this throughout the show. AFewBricksShy posted:I may have missed it, but where did the 300 million end up? with pine?
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May 26, 2016 03:38
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Iseeyouseemeseeyou posted:The finale was confusing as gently caress. Pine begins this show as a night manager in Cairo and meets Roper, et al there. In the finale Pine tells them he had never been to Cairo, etc. There were a ton of small bits like this throughout the show. No, the first bit with Freddy was in Cairo, and while Roper was there they never met. He met Roper and his entourage in Switzerland later on (when he's approached to be a spy), and they explicitly say that he had left Cairo off of his CV because of everything that went down. The only person he was worried might recognize him was Freddy, and he eventually did. Hence the murder.
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May 26, 2016 03:44
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ShakeZula posted:No, the first bit with Freddy was in Cairo, and while Roper was there they never met. He met Roper and his entourage in Switzerland later on (when he's approached to be a spy), and they explicitly say that he had left Cairo off of his CV because of everything that went down. Guess I missed that bit, thanks
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May 26, 2016 03:45
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"Iseeyouseemeseeyou" posted:
I wasn't sure if he kept it, or if he had to turn it over to the government.
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May 26, 2016 03:47
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CBJSprague24 posted:I made it about 30 minutes into the first episode before I stopped watching and considered deleting it from my DVR because of how terribly boring it was. CBJSprague24 posted:e- Never mind, I'm glad I stuck with this. johnlecarré.txt
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May 26, 2016 05:22
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ending spoilers ahead: In my head-canon Pine hid away the money from anyone else. Le Carré's thing is how there are no flawless people and Pine is far too perfect as superficially portrayed. His murder-by-proxy of Roper is another aspect of Pine's inner monster - no-one walks away with clean hands here so I have no problems imagining that he set up his own nest egg.
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Jack of Hearts posted:johnlecarré.txt Really enjoyed the show, binged through the first couple episodes then live watched the rest. Basically a six hour movie (minus commercials) with fantastic actors based on a great spy novel written by one of the best in the genre. On basic cable, go figure. Edit: monkeu posted:.... and was co-produced by the BBC. Makes sense now.
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