The Night Manager, AMC TV miniseries discussion

[DonDadda59]

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Caught a screening of the first episode and a 10 minute teaser of the second and a Q&A with Tom Hiddleston. This is a 6-part AMC miniseries based on a book by John Le Carre. It's damn good TV, very cinematic and stylish. The story is interesting and keeps you engaged. Feels like a light version of a god James Bond flick (think Skyfall if James Bond had a day job).

A solid 8.2/10 from what I've seen so far.

[highwhey]

I'll watch anything with a post-House Hugh Laurie, I miss him that much.

[DonDadda59]

Anybody see the premiere tonight?

[DeuceWallaces]

I'll watch anything with a post-House Hugh Laurie, I miss him that much.

He's been great on Veep.

I'll definitely be watching this at some point. I love both of them.

[insidehoops]

DVR'ing the replay now

[Thorpesaurous]

This has been really well done TV. I'm an episode behind, but I'll probably catch up tonight. Hugh Laurie is a superb villain. Tom Hiddleston has been very good. And that blond chick has been excellent, a very complete character. Also, his henchman, Corky, is a really great character.

I'm digging these limited release shows. I don't feel like I'm getting myself too committed to stuff, and I don't have that looming sense that I'm going to be strung along with some crap show that I'm watching out of habit year after year. I don't get as disappointed with episodes that I don't like, or episodes that feel like filler, because I feel like there's a definitive payoff that everything is building to.

[DonDadda59]

This has been really well done TV. I'm an episode behind, but I'll probably catch up tonight. Hugh Laurie is a superb villain. Tom Hiddleston has been very good. And that blond chick has been excellent, a very complete character. Also, his henchman, Corky, is a really great character.

I'm digging these limited release shows. I don't feel like I'm getting myself too committed to stuff, and I don't have that looming sense that I'm going to be strung along with some crap show that I'm watching out of habit year after year. I don't get as disappointed with episodes that I don't like, or episodes that feel like filler, because I feel like there's a definitive payoff that everything is building to.

I need to catch the latest episode still but I'm with everything you said. Laurie was the one who attained/optioned the rights to the story and had originally wanted to play Pine.

[andgar923]

I haven't peeped yet, but gun to your head which one do you watch:

Mr. Robot or this show?

[iamgine]

I haven't peeped yet, but gun to your head which one do you watch:

Mr. Robot or this show?
Mr Robot by a lot.

Night Manager has a solid first couple episodes, but imo falls off badly especially towards the end.

[Thorpesaurous]

I haven't peeped yet, but gun to your head which one do you watch:

Mr. Robot or this show?


Probably Mr. Robot for it's originality and just general uniqueness in the current TV landscape, plus it's got more to come.

The Night Manager you can catch up on whenever, as it's a pre-set length of episodes.
I will say though that TNM is a tighter story. Not as many tangents. Not quite as A B C episodic. I like the sort of random lengths' of episodes. And I've thought the build up has been pretty solid, and don't think it's weakened at all. Roper has been slowly doled out as increasingly evil, and the threat to Pine and the Jed is increasingly tense. I think the thing that I need to keep my head on about is the implication of the amount of time that's gone by between each episode.


Laurie would've been interesting as Pine. I was not a House guy, but I saw a few episodes and like him, and I really don't know him from anything else. But it seems his ability to change character would've played Pine very interestingly, but I'm not sure he could've pulled off what it feels like that character has to be physically.