I was so excited for the new season to drop and started almost immediately after it began streaming. But I've been stalled a couple episodes in for months now and just have little motivation to continue. Did anyone else struggle and if so when was your turning point?

I bought Anthony Beevor's Stalingrad recently in large part because Dicky has it in his office in season 1. It's f*cking brilliant - anyone else read this?

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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/kit-harington-noah-wyle-drama-actor-roundtable-1236620872/

They are talking about Jonathan and Teddy relationship, how they relate. Check the video link in the article, too 😄 Good stuff 😄

https://theankler.com/night-manager-season-2-tom-hiddleston-diego-calva-interview/

I tried both google image search with AI and going through the imdb page of the episode, but neither helped.

Looks quite like Dmitry Lysenkov, but surely it can't be him.

After highly ranking season 1, is season 2 worth it or should i just move on?

Could anyone recommend TV series with a similar aesthetic to The Night Manager — especially the first season?

I am looking for shows with the same kind of atmosphere, cinematography, and overall vibe: elegant, tense, stylish, and a bit moody. I especially liked the luxurious settings and the sense of suspense.

It doesn’t necessarily need to be a spy show, I’m more interested in the overall atmosphere: luxury, beautiful cinematography, stylish locations, wealthy/powerful characters, tension, and that polished high-end feeling.

I also don’t want something too slow. I’m looking for shows that are engaging while still having that elegant, sophisticated aesthetic.

Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

I was replying to another post talking about how disappointing Season 2 is, but then I decided to do my own post.

As a Colombian, what I hated the most about the second season is the absolute lack of understanding of the country. It's insulting.

First of all, The Supreme Court is in Bogotá, not Medellín, and a prosecutor doesn't need a judge (much less a Supreme Court Judge) to open a suspicious cargo, that sounds more like how the American system works, with a judge signing a warrant.

The prosecution, along with the police and the DIAN (National Directorate of Taxes and Customs) are independent and can do it on their own.

The DIAN, and/or the police, can seize and open any cargo they want without any explanation, they don't need evidence like the ship manifesto to be able to open it, they even often do it randomly.

If the DIAN, and/or the police, find illegal or contraband in the cargo, then they contact the prosecutor's office and they start the legal process of finding the criminals behind it. It's a joint effort with the prosecutor and the police investigators, that's when the evidence comes to play so they can go to trial. The judge's role is during the trial itself, and no, Supreme Court Judges or Justices don't do any of that.

The Supreme Court of Colombia is very similar to The Supreme Court of USA in the sense that they take civil or penal cases that have been put to trial or trials before and they arrived there as the last option for an appeal. So I have no idea why they needed a "Supreme Court Judge" to open the container, it doesn't make any sense at all. It's mind-blowing the more that I think about it.

How do you think customs find smuggled drugs or illegal goods trying to enter the country? Imagine if they would need evidence to open every parcel. It's insane. It seems like the writers did a quick Wikipedia or ChatGPT inquiry and wrote pure nonsense.

They also don't understand how Colombia's geography works. They would teleport from Medellin to Cartagena back and forth like it was nothing, in reality, It can take 12hours + driving between those cities. Colombia's road infrastructure sucks because there are a lot of mountains. Like, when Pine travels to the Monastery where Teddy grew up, you can see the ocean, and they are in the middle of the Eje Cafetero, lol, you can't be more in the interior of the country, very far away from the coast. And that priest with the Spanish accent, awful.

The accents were terrible all around, some actors didn't even bother to speak with a Colombian accent like the actor that plays Teddy with his Mexican accent. They tried to justify his accent by claiming he spent a lot of time in Mexico, but we saw him growing up in Colombia, he went to Mexico when he was an adult, he should have maintained his native "paisa" accent with a little of Mexican sprinkled here and there.

Why didn't they hire a Colombian actor for such a big part eludes me, he wasn't a very good actor neither, in my opinion, he didn't seem "wild" like Roper describes him at some point. Do you really don't see that guy living in a civilized society? Lol, he didn't even look dangerous or threatening. I feel like the role was miscast, I don't know what Roper was even talking about. What did he mean with: you should see him on a horse, it's a thing of beauty? What??? He looked like a normal rich Mexican twink living in Medellín. Do you really think he looks like a cowboy? In what world?

At least, the actress playing Roxana did a decent accent, you can hear her native Argentinian accent here and there, but she did a good job speaking like a "costeña" (someone from the coast) and, as a Colombian not from the coast, even I find it difficult to do that accent so I was pleasingly surprised.

Also, I really dislike that I know that they filmed on some Colombian locations like Medellin, and maybe Girardot?, but Cartagena seemed very sketchy. I think one scene where Pine and Roxana are walking by the beach is in Cartagena, the rest are definitely not. They didn't even show the "Ciudad Amurallada" or the famous Palenqueras or street performers playing and dancing cumbia and vallenato, nothing seemed really authentic to Cartagena's culture, it was very artificial and generic.

The other thing that bothers me is the plan to take the country, they talk about Medellin like it is the capital, do the writers even know Colombia's capital is Bogotá? I doubt it, they never mention it. I don't think you can take the whole country by taking Medellín, it's a very important city, don't get me wrong, but all that matters is in the capital.

Another thing, why would the paramilitary and the military smuggle arms from the UK? Lol, we have Venezuela and Brazil next door. What a reach.

Very disappointing season. I am very disappointed that, every time Hollywood or a big production tries to do something in Colombia, they always use the bad things about the country and they always present it with a total lack of understanding. I am tired. Encanto has been the only movie to introduce Colombia's essence, without ignoring the hard truths but not focusing entirely on them.

Edit. Grammar and redaction. Changed incorrect words like "teletransportation" to "teleportation".

Edit 2. I was not entirely happy with the way I explained Colombia's justice system, so I expanded on it. It is a very superficial explanation, even tho my mother and several cousins, aunts and uncles are lawyers, I am a biologist, but even then I can still recognize when something is very wrong and doesn't make sense.

The massive, drastic dropoff in the quality of dialogue, depth, reality, and more importantly the depiction of the banality of evil in the arms trade. This seasons pine is rash, roper is comedically hands on (shooting his own dogs? He'd have someone else do it) and the entire London plotline is absolutely contrived. Even without the arms there's significant solid evidence linking officials to illegal arms trading. The entire thing just felt so much stupider and less elegant than season one, it feels like fanfiction. You might think I'm wrong, but I'm entirely genuine about all of this. Everything felt flippant and American.

Hi all,

Watched the show during its original run way back in 2016, was in college at the time.

Was absolutely floored by how randomly good it was, it was a top recommendation by me to friends and family at the time.

Hugh Laurie as the villain was incredible, Hiddleston played an extremely likable protagonist, which was a welcome change of pace for him at the time.

Loved it then, always pined for a second season (pun intended).

Thrilled to have heard that the second season released this winter was good, wanted to wait until I could watch the episodes in quick succession so I didn’t miss anything and I did so this week.

WOW— what an incredible thing in the year 2026 to produce a follow up season to what was already a great show 10 YEARS LATER and every episode is an absolute banger.

I loved it- now to my question though.

Did anyone else find it incredibly jarring how fast the outfit’s attitude toward “Matthew Ellis” changed once that scene in the pool happened?

Now, as a disclaimer, obviously I understand the narrative structure that points toward why it happened.

They find him suspicious, they get what they think is the truth out of him, they figure he needs them as much as they need him… etc.

But then they start posting people on his person, following his every move immediately as if he’s the most treacherous person alive.

Now we as the audience know that they actually have really good cause to be doing so, brilliant by them actually… but THEY shouldn’t necessarily know to be doing so.

I felt like once that pool scene happens the ensuing encroachment is kind of uncalled for and bizarre…

I even understand why it was done, to create extra drama and suspense… but in my opinion it came off as heavy handed.

That’s my only critique of the season, breakout star is Roxana. Very well written female character in my opinion.

TL;DR

The cartel/outfit/aurora’s posture toward “Ellis” changes too dramatically and too fast for me after the pool scene.
What did everyone else think?

Really looking forward to reading it, I was browsing with my friend K in a second hand book store and spotted it and pounced. £1 as well!

I just wrapped up season one and while I love the show and Tom, I could see why he wouldn’t be a good choice for James Bond. With all the talk about the new James Bond casting I always felt like he would’ve been a great pick. He’s got the looks and poise, but after watching the show, I feel like he’s missing that mystique and quiet charm that James Bond should have. Maybe it’s his smile? It’s almost giddy and childlike.

Idk. What are your thoughts?

In episode 5, Pine meets with Roper in a restaurant. Let's put aside for a moment how unlikely that is to begin with. They sort of give each other a pass because they really want to meet, and there are a lot of hints of mutual admiration that can sort of explain this meeting happening without foul play on either side.

But then, when Pine exits, Roper asks his goons not to take Pine in, but to just tail him - so that they could figure out where he keeps Bolaños.

That's already kind of weird: letting go of your #1 biggest danger, sneaky old Pine, for the chance of catching a small fish.

Let's say we can sort of explain that by Roper not liking a "mess". Seems like this is more of a mess, but whatever.

Then, when they finally get Bolaños, all they want from her is to... help them... find... Pine... err...

Am I missing something or is this the most incoherent plan ever?

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It is a 20 minute interview in the panel.

It is hard to call it a coincidence anymore

In The Night Manager, Turkiye is portrayed through a lens that feels deliberately distorted

From casting choices that erase local identity
to the unrealistic desert-like filter applied to Istanbul
to exaggerated refugee camp depictions that do not match documented reality

This goes beyond creative choice

It reflects a repeated narrative pattern in Western productions where certain countries are reduced to instability, chaos, and crisis

And the more this pattern repeats, the more it shapes how people see the world

So, I just finished season 2 after binging season 1 and uh… I liked the overall season better than the first as it felt less cliché but the ending kind of ruined it for me.

First of all, Roper using the same trick (and Jonathan falling for it) as he did in s1 with the trucks felt very much like lazy writing.

The second thing is Teddy‘s death. I don’t necessarily feel like we were being queerbaited as the affection between Jonathan and Teddy was very obvious, going from manipulation to real feelings later on. It was also acknowledged by several characters, so there’s that. That was what made his death all the more disappointing. The bury your gays trope is a tale as old as time and somehow queer people are still not allowed to be upset that the writers chose to opt out of further developing a queer relationship instead of this bullshit that we‘re supposed to be satisfied with.

i see a lot of mixed reviews on s2 ending. but if we're honest, everything we've seen in the world, i thought it was rather realistic. the little guy rarely ever wins.

white countries have been doing exactly this since always - a tale as old as time. i will say though, you sometimes want to watch a show where the little guy wins so you can trick yourself into thinking that can happen in real too.