It was good fun. Utterly ridiculous. But fun, nonetheless. I saw a lot of reviews and online snark, mostly from Natsec geeks, about how ridiculous and unrealistic it was, but I think, as always, they were missing the point.
A realistic spy thriller would probably follow some drab bureaucrat into his office for 7.52 hours a day, and look over his shoulder while he or she read a bunch of reports and news clips.
Then, at the end of the first episode, they’d write a memo.
Check out The Diplomat on Netflix if you haven't already, absolutely cracking stuff. I had a "oh I'll see what this is like..." moment with starting it and then burned through the whole series in a week (as you do).
i always get my tv recommendations from here. Because the top shelf offerings on streaming platforms is maybe 5-6hrs each tops and i'm always on the lookout for rainy day material. And to compound it we have profiles for myself, my partner and the kids. But everyone just uses mine by default (in addition to using theirs) so the adjacent stuff i'm interested in gets buried in recommendations for weird stuff like LGBTQi chinese fantasy soap opera (think Monkey but without the comedy and has a whole lot of impeccable hair and runs for what seems like 8 series of 120 episodes so the AI bot goes "you watch a lot of this stuff - here's some more"), the anime that comes up is sometimes good though.
That's why you need to rigorous enforce different users on the account using their account, and why the algorithm for my Amazon account continues to through up bodice rippers due to my partner ordering Georgette Heyer novels.
Anecdata, but your bureaucrat is spot on. A friend only realised that her father was a spy after he retired. All through childhood he'd come home from work every day and say that he read a bit, thought a bit and then wrote a bit. That's all.
"A realistic spy thriller would probably follow some drab bureaucrat into his office for 7.52 hours a day, and look over his shoulder while he or she read a bunch of reports and news clips" wasn't that the basis of George Smiley in John le Carré's "Calls for the Dead"?
Check out The Diplomat on Netflix if you haven't already, absolutely cracking stuff. I had a "oh I'll see what this is like..." moment with starting it and then burned through the whole series in a week (as you do).
The algorithm is way ahead of you. It served up the diplomat to me as soon as I was finished with the night agent.
I'm now going to start the Night Agent!
Keri Russell is always good.
i always get my tv recommendations from here. Because the top shelf offerings on streaming platforms is maybe 5-6hrs each tops and i'm always on the lookout for rainy day material. And to compound it we have profiles for myself, my partner and the kids. But everyone just uses mine by default (in addition to using theirs) so the adjacent stuff i'm interested in gets buried in recommendations for weird stuff like LGBTQi chinese fantasy soap opera (think Monkey but without the comedy and has a whole lot of impeccable hair and runs for what seems like 8 series of 120 episodes so the AI bot goes "you watch a lot of this stuff - here's some more"), the anime that comes up is sometimes good though.
This is why nobody but me is allowed to watch the television in our house
That's why you need to rigorous enforce different users on the account using their account, and why the algorithm for my Amazon account continues to through up bodice rippers due to my partner ordering Georgette Heyer novels.
Anecdata, but your bureaucrat is spot on. A friend only realised that her father was a spy after he retired. All through childhood he'd come home from work every day and say that he read a bit, thought a bit and then wrote a bit. That's all.
I watched the first two eps following your reco. It is enjoyable so far, but some of the dialogue is cringe. The Diplomat is top notch.
"A realistic spy thriller would probably follow some drab bureaucrat into his office for 7.52 hours a day, and look over his shoulder while he or she read a bunch of reports and news clips" wasn't that the basis of George Smiley in John le Carré's "Calls for the Dead"?