Netflix's new spy thriller, created by Joe Barton, keeps viewers on the edge of their seats with its fast-paced action, shocking twists, and compelling characters.
The series knowingly ticks many of the desired and familiar boxes. For starters, it’s a crime drama and, on TV, as with movies and books, crime does pay. Globally popular, it’s a genre that keeps on giving. In addition, the slick espionage thriller created and written by Joe Barton () has promotable stars, pacey, plot-packed action and assiduously placed cliffhangers, those juicy hooks that keep viewers tuning in.
It’s not rocket-science, and it’s not novel, although Netflix appears to have honed its own house style, one that’s already revealing shaky scaffolding and cracking foundations.A prime example of that style, Barton’s six-part series unfolds at a quick clip as it introduces its central trio. Keira Knightley is Helen Webb, the seemingly perfect wife of a well-regarded Tory minister (Andrew Buchan) tipped to be heading for Downing Street, and the mother of their young twins. However, this is a nothing-as-it-seems thriller. We soon learn that she’s actually a spy reporting on his activities to the mysterious Mrs Reed (Sarah Lancashire). An inscrutable handler who looks like a prim English matron, Mrs Reed – as she insists on being addressed – could almost be sticking to her knitting as she coolly assigns lethal tasks while preparing for a merry Christmas by forcefully studding a clementine with cloves. Ben Whishaw, who’s the best thing about the series, is Sam, a “triggerman”. A proficient assassin-for-hire, he also works for Mrs Reed and shares a special friendship with Helen as a result of their entwined past. The murder of Helen’s lover (Andrew Koji) upsets the balance of business-as-usual and sends events spiralling out of control. The swiftly paced episodes are generously loaded with action: knockdown, drag-out fights, often involving women; explosions, high-speed chases, on foot and in cars; shock twists; eruptions of violence and lots of suspens
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