04-18-2025, 09:05 AM
This is a cold war thriller bang slap in the middle of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy territory. It has a fantastic cast, including Brian Cox as the patriarchal Head of Department (literally codenamed Daddy), Tom Hughes as our handsome, morally ambiguous lynchpin, Victoria Hamilton and Jonathan Aris as the established couple who trust each other with their lives (or do they?) and the much-missed Simon Ritter as the ambitious middleman who wants Daddy's job.
Oh and I just remembered Rachael Stirling's in it as well, and is it even possible to tell which side she's on?
There's a doomed love affair with a Russian asset, discovery of a plot by the Soviets to trigger WW3 by having an American nuclear missile detonated in Britain, attempts to unearth a mole (of course), and lots of delicious moral compromise along the way.
Seriously, if you haven't watched this already, do. You won't regret it. It's still on iPlayer right now.
*****
Oh and I just remembered Rachael Stirling's in it as well, and is it even possible to tell which side she's on?
There's a doomed love affair with a Russian asset, discovery of a plot by the Soviets to trigger WW3 by having an American nuclear missile detonated in Britain, attempts to unearth a mole (of course), and lots of delicious moral compromise along the way.
Seriously, if you haven't watched this already, do. You won't regret it. It's still on iPlayer right now.
*****
We're slushing through The Stolen Child on Disney, inbetween National Theatre at Home plays but there's only so much online theatre you can watch in a week.