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Helen begins a passionate affair with a man who has no idea what her secret identity is
Helen’s employer is conflicted when her lover falls victim to the dangerous London underworld, and she asks Sam to protect her. Bingo, the owner of the guitar shop where Sam gets his gun, is played by Rat Scabies, a member of the classic punk band The Damned..
It starts off really well
Starring Graham Norton and guests: Cher/Keira Knightley/Michael Fassbender/Josh Brolin/Jalen Ngonda (2024). It’s one of those cliffhangers where the acting is beyond criticism and the production values are pretty much flawless.
But John Le Carre didn’t do that
You’d think a complicated spy thriller would captivate and seduce you. Instead, you soon discover that it’s neither serious nor funny.
As is often the case these days, the problem is the lack of a story
It has quirky characters and indeed characters with all the charm and conversational magic you’d expect from a psychopath. They could be related to Killing Even Eve, but they’re poor cousins and don’t quite fit together on the psychopath DNA inheritance scale.
Unfortunately, it could have been really good
It’s a cartoonish caricature of a spy thriller, with a story built on a thin plot and repetitive, space-filling action sequences. No need to waste time scrolling endlessly – here’s the full lineup of new movies and TV shows streaming on Netflix this month.