The second episode of the mini-series offers some nice touches and some others that just reek of conventionality. It is, though, as with the first episode, another nice showing of good acting, direction and plot development.
Pine gets in contact with Angela, who convinces him to help in stopping Roper once and for all. So now our hero has to go to the dark side to get into Roper's inner circle and help in destroying it.
As with the first episode, the visuals, and the acting are very very good. We have a chance to see more of Laurie, who it is pretty easy to see is enjoying this dark character. Olivia Colman is great too as Angela, Pine's "boss". This is Hiddleston's show, though, and he dominates with his calm and cool presence.
The first part is very good, but then the show falls a little bit into conventionality, with a couple of plot developments that could have been avoided, and that take a little bit from the story, and bring a sense of spy-of-the-week to the series. Nonetheless the quality of everyone involved is good enough to keep the series on the right side.
And the game between Laurie's Roper and Hiddleston's Pine has just started...
Pine gets in contact with Angela, who convinces him to help in stopping Roper once and for all. So now our hero has to go to the dark side to get into Roper's inner circle and help in destroying it.
As with the first episode, the visuals, and the acting are very very good. We have a chance to see more of Laurie, who it is pretty easy to see is enjoying this dark character. Olivia Colman is great too as Angela, Pine's "boss". This is Hiddleston's show, though, and he dominates with his calm and cool presence.
The first part is very good, but then the show falls a little bit into conventionality, with a couple of plot developments that could have been avoided, and that take a little bit from the story, and bring a sense of spy-of-the-week to the series. Nonetheless the quality of everyone involved is good enough to keep the series on the right side.
And the game between Laurie's Roper and Hiddleston's Pine has just started...