Monday, 19 January 2026

The Night Manager - Season 2 (2026 David Farr)

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. What that idea was, I can't remember.

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 Rope 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.

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 by Izabella Curry (with Napoleon Stratogiannakis on 2 and Dan Crinnion on 3). Music Federico Jusid.

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