John Le Carré had died and never had a Carré sequel been written without him. Farr says the idea for how it continued came to him in a dream - a little boy, waiting in a monastery.
Anyway, it's ten years later. Opens with Olivia Colman seeing Roper's body and pronouncing him dead. The Tom Hiddlestone character has had a complete identity change and is running a group of Intelligence surveillance agents. Sees something that convinces him there's a connection to the old Richard Roper dodgy arms deals. Without authorisation he sends his team in and two of them are killed. A survivor, Hayley Squires (I, Daniel Blake), joins him to seek out the bad man responsible, Diego Calva.
In Episode 3 (of 6) I was just thinking "This isn't as good as the last one, because Hugh Laurie isn't in it" and guess what happened?
Camilla Morone, Alistair Petrie, Douglas Hodge, Indira Varma, Michael Nardone, Paul Chahidi. And whoever played the great detective who works with Pine.
Did not see that ending coming.
Looks like it cost a lot of money even if they didn't actually go to all the locations. Photographed by Tim Sidell and edited eps 1-4 by Izabella Curry (with Napoleon Stratogiannakis on 2 and Dan Crinnion on 3). Stratogiannakis did 5 on his own and Crinnion did 6. Music Federico Jusid.
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