Fun Fact for those unfamiliar, James Bond is actually the reason le Carre began writing. One day he read Ian Fleming and thought "This isn't accurate at all! I'm going to write a spy book that's actually realistic and it'll be twenty times better than this! With blackjack! And hookers!" The rest, as they say, is history.
I suppose its the difference between a desk jockey vs an active spy From what i understood ian fleming worked at mi6 during ww2 but wasnt a field agent. He took inspiration from the stories and reports hed heard or read, and it was even said Christopher Lee(ian flemings cousin, who he once promised to Lee that hed try and make it so he can star as a villain for a movie, which he did after flemings death), whos job was so covert hunting nazis during the war that its still classified even after his death, was one of the main inspirations for james bond.
Books vs Movies in the UK an ad was on for this every other programme after 6pm when it was on - (I know the BBC don’t have ads, I mean “promos” for its own shows. It was kind of burned into my brain to the point where I sort of forgot it existed for four years then saw this and all the ads flooded in at once like some kind of PTSD nightmare. It apparently didn’t do that well in America, and it wasn’t expected to for some reason, so it probably wasn’t heavily advertised.
I definitely need to check this out now. Tom Hiddleston is a great actor and honestly, I think gets confined by the Loki role. And, honestly I'd love to see Hugh Laurie in a spy thriller. I loved his book The Gun Seller
I remember Hugh Laurie mentioning in an interview once that he had always wanted to play Johnathan Pine in an adaptation of the Night Manager, but by the time it was made he was too old to play him, so he settled on his second favourite character. Great casting and a great show
American here and yeah, totally ignorant as to this shows existence. Just from the clips alone I find it MIND BOGGLING this hasn't been talked about a bit more since the production values do look amazing.
I think I saw commercials for it when I watched Mad Men so I'm guessing it was on AMC and that would explain a lot. AMC can really suck at advertising some of their shows. It was one of those shows I kept telling myself to watch but never got around to it.
I remember seeing some Tim Hiddleston interviews where he talks about it and some taxi ads, but if I hadn’t been in NY at the time I probably wouldn’t have noticed
Tom has the capability of having a serious facial expression that really shows that he's in deep thought and "the life of this tough man is tough right now" but you still want to pinch his cheek and give him a cookie.
@Rebecca Woolf I love Be Kind Rewind videos and would recommend them highly to anyone. Her Little Women video stuck to the four major motion pictures and was excellent even if it didn't include tv versions. Her focus is on Actresses in the movie industry, but, like Dom, she does amazing research and is very knowledgeable!
2:23 "They don't all have the word 'spy' in the title... he is a _little_ more subtle than that." That's true, not all of them have the word "spy" in the title. Some have the word "Smiley" instead.
@BeyondEnchantment Dom seemed to imply that it did not do well in the US, and I'll reiterate, I've never heard of it, at all, until this video, period. I don't know, maybe 'highest rated AMC show' isn't a high bench mark?
The toupee bit sounds to me like a technique I've heard of for resisting torture by picking a mundane but personally meaningful detail as a focus to maintain a sense of your identity. Can't remember where I heard that factoid, but it would make sense if that was a technique the author had been trained in
When I first heard of "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy". I thought it was about a guy named Tinker Tailor, who was a Soldier Spy, whatever I thought that was.
I feel more peaceful than I ever expected to be just in the knowledge that Dom liked the Good Omens adaptation. I know its LIA is pretty far down on the paid requests lists so until then it made me unexpectedly happy to know this much.
Well, naturally you're going to get a better result if you hire the Martian Manhunter to help your operation... I'd love to see the "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" film on this show one day.
I'd like to see a comparison of the TV and movie versions of TTSS. The TV version was made in 1979 while the film was made in 2011 but set in the '70s. They're both good adaptations but different styles. (The BBC also did two excellent radio adaptations.)
Yeah, as an American I hadn't heard of this show even a little until I saw it shared over a bunch of Tom Hiddelston stan accounts. It looks worth a watch, I'm not usually into spy thrillers but every once and a while I find one I like.
Loki will be my main reason to get Disney+ and I am still kinda angry at Disney for launching it's own streaming service because every streaming service added to the market makes it harder and more expensive to watch all the stuff you are interested in That said, I am Disney's bitch and Loki's too, so what's a girl gonna do 🤷
They did Loki dirty in all, *all* their movies, and then gave him a clown wig and a red nose in Ragnarok, screwing his mental state yet again into suicidal helplessness. If anything decent at all is gonna come out of this show, I believe it would be Tom's own performance. But with his confusion over character he spent decade playing differently in every movie, hope he's not gonna be exhausted to the point of not giving a damn about the show.
It's weird to me seeing Hiddleston being mostly lauded and fangirled about right now due the Loki role, as I'd previously only ever seen him in this very different series...? (Haven't actually seen the Marvel movies - not my jam - but it's pretty impossible to dodge seeing chunks of them in the film criticism space 😏)
If they cant convince Tom Hardy (my personal choice for next bond) id love to see hiddleston play bond. The guy irl is a very good impressionist of various accents (i think he also knows several languages) and is a good actor in general so itd be believable that on a dime he could masquerade as someone on the mission. One thing weve been missing for a while is infiltration in bond films
You weren't kidding about the cast and production values. I've got a couple of thriller fans I know that will definitely watch this (while I hide behind a pillow because I don't do suspense and intensity very well sometimes)
Also, I think the reason it didn't do that great in the US is the lack of advertising. I have it on my prime watchlist, but that's because I will watch everything with Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie. I think I saw maybe one ad before a movie about the show since it came out in the US.
"Mister Dalliard! We've been activated!" A Bit of Frye and Laurie and Blackadder are some of my favourite Hugh Laurie roles. But then, I'm a bit of an Anglophile, so I like dry humour and sarcasm. . .
It was a co-production with AMC in the USA which is where the budget came from and actually did pretty well with the Boomer Demographic. I heard about it from my parents and when I went to recommend it my clients they are their friends were already watching it.
Nerdy Wolverine I think it might be a bit of an obscure joke. One of the nicknames given to intelligence officers by the British armed forces is “Box”. A bit different from square, but it still might have been the intention
Thank you SO MUCH Dom for this! I guess I was one of the few Americans to see & fall in love with this! In fact, I didn't care for Dr. House or Loki at all until I saw this. I'm now a huge Tom Hiddleston fan, with Crimson Peak being one of my all-time favorite horror/supernatural thriller movies. I also didn't notice Olivia Colman in TNM so I'm definitely going to go back and watch this series again.
Wow. How could you not notice Olivia Coleman, it's not a small role? I thought she did a great job. I normally mind when they gender swap a character but it was fine in her case, probably because of how good she is.
Yeah, I remember it a complete sausage fest as well. I guess because she gets stymied by all the other agencies and all those freaking condescending men. She apparently wins in the end so maybe I should try re-watching it given I love her now.
I am absolutely MINDBLOWN at how many people have not seen this show. Tom Hiddleston is so beyond good in it, I just- the entire cast is fucking fantastic.
Honestly le carre's fondness for stories ending either with nothing really resolved, or with out and out tragedy, says a lot about what espionage is actually like. Even Tinker Tailor, where the plot does wrap up satisfyingly, it's still a real downer
I watched the series on Amazon, mostly because of my love of Hiddleston and Laurie. I thought it was incredible, and I enjoyed your review of it and the book.
I was in a Hiddleston lust-worthy binge and watched an entire hour-long interview with him (and I think the director of "Night Manager) where I thought I'd like to see this. I've already had an interest in detectives and spies so I hoped it be good. On the edge of my seat the whole mini-series and have it to blame for a more involved interest in LeCarre since. I can totally see LeCarre wanting to better Fleming's work and I think he has. The ending of the mini-series is MUCH better than what is described of the book (I still haven't read this one).
I dunno - I kinda think the original book ending is more realistic of how these things work in real life 🤷♀️ Excellent show though, thoroughly recommend!
Yeah in real life the evil criminal gets to continue his business for 20 more years then he gets murdered by a another agency for a different random reason like "he went to that wedding"
I'm one of the Americas that didn't know about this show when it came out. I hadn't heard of it until I saw this video in my feed, so I just watched it on Prime and it was really good. I'm surprised also surprised that it didn't get much attention in the US. I also like that it's a miniseries, but definitely wouldn't have been sad if they had made a second season.
LeCarre's first three novels, including his first big hit _The Spy Who Came In From the Cold_ , were written while he worked for British Intelligence. His cover was blown by Kim *mother-loving* Philby which meant he couldn't stay with whichever MI he was then working with. Fortunately, he was by then a well-known author. My dad, who briefly worked with one of the MIs in the late 1960s as an exchange officer, loves LeCarre. in his words, "[LeCarre] shows spies as they really are: boring little men in trench coats with bad breath." Not that you asked, but my two favorite (interlinked, but not sequels in any sense)novels of LeCarre are: _Russia House_ and _The Secret Pilgrim_
This show is one of the best shows I've ever seen, and I must have rewatched it... 6 times now? The cast is stellar (Olivia Colman and Tom Hollander make every movie or tv show they appear in worthwhile) and the tension is fantastic! I would recommend it to everyone who has not seen it yet!
Now, I am a huge fan of spy films and the book(s) sound dope and the series looks intriguing. Given your review, I can mostly agree that I already know I'm not going care for the book ending, but, I've read worse endings 🤷🏿♀️ sad that we here in the States didn't eat this up, but if it's on Prime, I will definitely check this out. Thanks for the great review!
First time I actually stopped a video to watch the show first and not spoiler anything for myself. And boy, I did not regret investing the time to watch it. Then came back to finish the video, thanks for bringing my attention to the show :)
I think I remember him saying it had been requested on Patreon, but that it was pretty far down the list. So it's probably forthcoming, but maybe not for a while still
Me: I wonder if Dom liked the Good Omens adaptation as much as I did. Dom: Good Omens is worth getting Amazon Prime if you don’t have it already. Me: Guess so. :)
9.25- Now *that’s* how you do a subversion of expectations. I was expecting the usual cliche where the boss is all like, ‘this has gotten out of hand- we’re shutting it down; your man’s on his own’-type thing - to go in the opposite direction, was really satisfying.
It's very much le Carre's style to have the ending be downbeat where the protagonist goes through hell for very little apparent gain. I can understand the show wanting a more definitive and upbeat ending.
Dom has a really great voice for this stuff, glad he's feeling better, Lost in Adaptation's audio is one of the few things to hit my "immediate calming" receptors.
I watched this a little over a year ago and enjoyed it. I'd only heard about it in passing through a friend who was obsessed with Hiddleston. I can't recall any advertising for it or buzz, so it's no wonder it got so little attention here in the States.
Great review as always Dom, but a slight correction regarding 2:41 : the BBC actually made an adaptation of The Little Drummer Girl a couple of years later and I personally think they did a pretty damn good job. I'd definitely recommend it.
You know, all of these audiobook-related plugs make me wish that I could actually handle listening to them, but they're always read *so goddamned slowly* and it's so aggravating.
granted, I did watch the entire series in the last 7 hours of a trans-Atlantic flight home, but I seem to have missed a ton. may have to give it another look
I utterly adore the Night Manager! It's one of the few TV Series that actually made me want to read the book. While I don't think it was as good as the series, I still adored Pine and breathed a sigh of relief when he was rescued. Also did you guys hear we're getting two more series of this? I'M HYPED! 🤩
Ok, so the fact that you are shocking Ray J's earphones is surprising, refreshing &, from what I hear of the product, shows quality is a thing of yours...SEXY. 10 POINTS RAVENCLAW 🏅
On the strength of the description of the show at the beginning of the episode, I paused it and went and watched the whole thing. It's really really good. Stellar cast and thrilling story. Amazing, and a treat, to see Laurie playing genuinely chilling evil.
I quite enjoyed this show! Each episode left me wanting to know what happened next, and, I can't lie, getting to watch Tom HIddleston is always a treat. Hopefully this will entice more people here in the US to watch it.
I’m still so glad I saw this. It had amazing tension and strong acting. I tend to follow the careers of specific actors I really like, so I saw this when I was initially getting really into Tom Hiddleston’s work.
This is one of my favourite books of all time and as much as I liked the tv show the turns of phrase and descriptions in the book have stayed with me forever. That being said I sometimes just flip last while chapters on the spy stuff when I’m rereading.
I remember seeing promos for this in America And watching it live. It didn't seen very popular over here and I was confused why. It's tom hiddleston playing what is quite literally a real james bond. People had been wanting that for years. Glad to see it at least did well in the uk...
Just to pre-empt a question that might get asked;
MI5: domestic counter-intelligence
MI6: foreign intelligence
Not all heroes wear capes!
MI9 3/4: magicall intelligence
MI7: Space Intelligence?
To complete:
MI8: Middle Earth Inteligence
MI10: Narnian Inteligence
MI413: Skaianet.
Fun Fact for those unfamiliar, James Bond is actually the reason le Carre began writing. One day he read Ian Fleming and thought "This isn't accurate at all! I'm going to write a spy book that's actually realistic and it'll be twenty times better than this! With blackjack! And hookers!" The rest, as they say, is history.
The day I discovered Le Carré I immediately threw Fleming in the fucking bin. You can't beat Smiley
Concidering the number of movies...
He sadly failed. :/
I suppose its the difference between a desk jockey vs an active spy
From what i understood ian fleming worked at mi6 during ww2 but wasnt a field agent. He took inspiration from the stories and reports hed heard or read, and it was even said Christopher Lee(ian flemings cousin, who he once promised to Lee that hed try and make it so he can star as a villain for a movie, which he did after flemings death), whos job was so covert hunting nazis during the war that its still classified even after his death, was one of the main inspirations for james bond.
Thus was born the comparison between the two kinds of spy fiction; "Martini" and "Stale Beer."
I think you mean "*without* blackjack and hookers!"
A spy thriller starring Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie, and Oliva Coleman. Why was this kept from me for so long?
Books vs Movies in the UK an ad was on for this every other programme after 6pm when it was on - (I know the BBC don’t have ads, I mean “promos” for its own shows. It was kind of burned into my brain to the point where I sort of forgot it existed for four years then saw this and all the ads flooded in at once like some kind of PTSD nightmare.
It apparently didn’t do that well in America, and it wasn’t expected to for some reason, so it probably wasn’t heavily advertised.
@@Ashethetics how did they not advertise it at all? They couldn’t literally just say Tom Hiddleston is in this and boom a crap ton of viewers!!!!
I definitely need to check this out now. Tom Hiddleston is a great actor and honestly, I think gets confined by the Loki role. And, honestly I'd love to see Hugh Laurie in a spy thriller. I loved his book The Gun Seller
You had to prove your worth by demonstrating your espionage skills to find it.
"Because I have six hours worth of show to work with this time"
Like thats going to stop him from analyzing Good Omes frame by frame
I remember Hugh Laurie mentioning in an interview once that he had always wanted to play Johnathan Pine in an adaptation of the Night Manager, but by the time it was made he was too old to play him, so he settled on his second favourite character. Great casting and a great show
American here and yeah, totally ignorant as to this shows existence. Just from the clips alone I find it MIND BOGGLING this hasn't been talked about a bit more since the production values do look amazing.
I remember there being a lot of billboards in LA at the time for it.
I think I saw commercials for it when I watched Mad Men so I'm guessing it was on AMC and that would explain a lot. AMC can really suck at advertising some of their shows. It was one of those shows I kept telling myself to watch but never got around to it.
It's fantastic, great acting and great production, definitely worth a watch.
It looks amazing and I don't even watch spy thrillers.
I remember seeing some Tim Hiddleston interviews where he talks about it and some taxi ads, but if I hadn’t been in NY at the time I probably wouldn’t have noticed
"the series is super loyal to the book for 4 episodes then blows up and goes off the rails for the last two"
Hey, welcome to the world of Anime!
im still bitter about soul eater
@@Conankun66YT one day they will fix it... One day... Keep up hope...
You’re 100% right
Please watch this video about it th-cam.com/video/a4S9NuI6NKo/w-d-xo.html
Unless your FullMetal Alchemist, where you do a series that goes off manga. Then readapt in a new series that's more fateful to the manga years later.
I like how he decided the husband is the character from the book.
its a very cute headcannon
Dominic Noble, Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddleston all in one video. my life is brilliant!
This is his most British episode to this date
Don't forget Olivia Colman!
This this this
Tom has the capability of having a serious facial expression that really shows that he's in deep thought and "the life of this tough man is tough right now" but you still want to pinch his cheek and give him a cookie.
Please do an episode comparing every film adaptation of Little Women.
@Rebecca Woolf What about all eight, though?
sounds like a perfect DomOscars episode.
I can't believe they made another adaptation.
@Rebecca Woolf I love Be Kind Rewind videos and would recommend them highly to anyone. Her Little Women video stuck to the four major motion pictures and was excellent even if it didn't include tv versions. Her focus is on Actresses in the movie industry, but, like Dom, she does amazing research and is very knowledgeable!
2:23 "They don't all have the word 'spy' in the title... he is a _little_ more subtle than that."
That's true, not all of them have the word "spy" in the title. Some have the word "Smiley" instead.
The reason it probably didn't do well in America is that I've never even heard of it. So, apparently it was poorly marketed.
If it wasn't on PBS I didn't watch it. I can only afford an indoor antenna.
Well thanks to Dom...
...who knows!? 🙍
Yet these series was shawn on Russian TV, but I'm not sure how sucessful it was. I've never heard about original book, though.
It's on Amazon Prime, so ofc no one's heard of it.
@BeyondEnchantment Dom seemed to imply that it did not do well in the US, and I'll reiterate, I've never heard of it, at all, until this video, period. I don't know, maybe 'highest rated AMC show' isn't a high bench mark?
The toupee bit sounds to me like a technique I've heard of for resisting torture by picking a mundane but personally meaningful detail as a focus to maintain a sense of your identity. Can't remember where I heard that factoid, but it would make sense if that was a technique the author had been trained in
I am a simple woman, I see Tom Hiddelston, I click
Same
Caroline Schaffner Same and I’m a straight man
So true... Jus charm transcends sexual orientation
Not gonna lie, I started watching this series for Tom Hiddleston and I stayed for the plot... and Tom Hiddleston
When I first heard of "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy". I thought it was about a guy named Tinker Tailor, who was a Soldier Spy, whatever I thought that was.
A spy in the army, of course
the tinker, the tailor, his soldier, her spy
I thought it was a Goodies spin-off; "Tim Brooke-Taylor, Soldier, Spy."
I've seen "The Spy Who Came in Out of the Cold" with Richard Burton. It really doesn't pull any punches about how dirty the business is on all sides.
That's Le Carrė for you.
Wow a rare case of The Dom liking the changes more than the original version....
this was cool, loved the mini series. Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie were fantastic together
I know, right? I'd like to see more collaborations of those two gentlemen....
@@Galvion1980 maybe next time, they can be on the same side
The book was better?! That never happens!
Hugh Laurie! Tom Hiddleston! You are spoiling us, Sir!
I feel more peaceful than I ever expected to be just in the knowledge that Dom liked the Good Omens adaptation. I know its LIA is pretty far down on the paid requests lists so until then it made me unexpectedly happy to know this much.
Well, naturally you're going to get a better result if you hire the Martian Manhunter to help your operation...
I'd love to see the "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" film on this show one day.
J’onn has previous experience.
I'd like to see a comparison of the TV and movie versions of TTSS. The TV version was made in 1979 while the film was made in 2011 but set in the '70s. They're both good adaptations but different styles. (The BBC also did two excellent radio adaptations.)
Yeah, as an American I hadn't heard of this show even a little until I saw it shared over a bunch of Tom Hiddelston stan accounts. It looks worth a watch, I'm not usually into spy thrillers but every once and a while I find one I like.
Hmmm. Tom Hiddleston is a pretty good selling point. Btw everyone else looking forward to the Loki show on Disney+? I know I am.
Loki will be my main reason to get Disney+ and I am still kinda angry at Disney for launching it's own streaming service because every streaming service added to the market makes it harder and more expensive to watch all the stuff you are interested in
That said, I am Disney's bitch and Loki's too, so what's a girl gonna do 🤷
They did Loki dirty in all, *all* their movies, and then gave him a clown wig and a red nose in Ragnarok, screwing his mental state yet again into suicidal helplessness.
If anything decent at all is gonna come out of this show, I believe it would be Tom's own performance. But with his confusion over character he spent decade playing differently in every movie, hope he's not gonna be exhausted to the point of not giving a damn about the show.
i'm looking forward to any project with Tom Hiddleston. he's a brilliant actor and he's gorgeous
Not really, I think they did everything they could with the character in the movies.
It's weird to me seeing Hiddleston being mostly lauded and fangirled about right now due the Loki role, as I'd previously only ever seen him in this very different series...? (Haven't actually seen the Marvel movies - not my jam - but it's pretty impossible to dodge seeing chunks of them in the film criticism space 😏)
Aaaand here’s the problem with being a Patreon. Initial excitement over new episode notification followed by “Wait...I’ve seen this one.”
Dom is the only TH-camr who can keep me engaged while pimping his sponsorship. That is some serious comedy chops.
Tom Hiddleston, I think, could be good for the next Bond. Just a thought.
Samuel Barber if not bond, certainly a Bond villain
If they cant convince Tom Hardy (my personal choice for next bond) id love to see hiddleston play bond.
The guy irl is a very good impressionist of various accents (i think he also knows several languages) and is a good actor in general so itd be believable that on a dime he could masquerade as someone on the mission. One thing weve been missing for a while is infiltration in bond films
I whole heartedly agree with you, Tom Hiddleston would be perfect.
Have any le Carre spies played Bond? I know M was in The Spy Who Came In From The Cold and Ralph Fiennes was in The Constant Gardener
Tom Hiddleston would be a very low-key Bond.
You weren't kidding about the cast and production values. I've got a couple of thriller fans I know that will definitely watch this (while I hide behind a pillow because I don't do suspense and intensity very well sometimes)
Also, I think the reason it didn't do that great in the US is the lack of advertising. I have it on my prime watchlist, but that's because I will watch everything with Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie. I think I saw maybe one ad before a movie about the show since it came out in the US.
"Mister Dalliard! We've been activated!" A Bit of Frye and Laurie and Blackadder are some of my favourite Hugh Laurie roles.
But then, I'm a bit of an Anglophile, so I like dry humour and sarcasm. . .
Tom Hiddleston! Tom Hiddleston! Tom Hiddleston!
All you need to know, in my opinion. ;-D
Say that while looking in a mirror, you might get lucky.
They mentioned in the show that Pine's father was in northern Ireland, since I think the show's Pine would have been too young to have been there?
Yeah hes a bit too young to have been active military during the troubles
It was a co-production with AMC in the USA which is where the budget came from and actually did pretty well with the Boomer Demographic. I heard about it from my parents and when I went to recommend it my clients they are their friends were already watching it.
5:40 was that a hint a Good Omens Lost in Adaptation is coming soon?! Also, I'm taking that to mean you liked the Good Omens adaptation 👼😈
It will come, but not soon
I didn't know the show was on Amazon. Thanks.
I think it's an interesting note that the author has his own head canons of the show.
I love being called a beautiful watcher 🥰
I watched this show, and this video, and for both of them I was so distracted by just how good Tom Hiddleston looks in those suits.
You didn't mention Le Carre's cameo. It's actually at such a pivotal point in the series.
When?
@@Carewolf The resturant. I think he's the man Pine apollogises too, thereby proving himself superiour to Corky in Roper's eyes.
It amuses me that he chose "the square" as his penname
“Get outta here ya fuckin square!”
“Yes that *is* my name. You are correct.”
He is the superlative square
@@robertwyatt3912 "I'm not a square... I'm _the_ square."
Nerdy Wolverine I think it might be a bit of an obscure joke. One of the nicknames given to intelligence officers by the British armed forces is “Box”. A bit different from square, but it still might have been the intention
Thank you SO MUCH Dom for this! I guess I was one of the few Americans to see & fall in love with this! In fact, I didn't care for Dr. House or Loki at all until I saw this. I'm now a huge Tom Hiddleston fan, with Crimson Peak being one of my all-time favorite horror/supernatural thriller movies. I also didn't notice Olivia Colman in TNM so I'm definitely going to go back and watch this series again.
Wow. How could you not notice Olivia Coleman, it's not a small role? I thought she did a great job. I normally mind when they gender swap a character but it was fine in her case, probably because of how good she is.
Yeah, I remember it a complete sausage fest as well. I guess because she gets stymied by all the other agencies and all those freaking condescending men. She apparently wins in the end so maybe I should try re-watching it given I love her now.
I am a simple woman, I see Dom and I click
I read "I lick"... I had questions... but this is alright, I guess xD
It ain’t much, but it’s honest work.
He is single... sooooo
I See A Glade 👀👀👀😅
I am absolutely MINDBLOWN at how many people have not seen this show. Tom Hiddleston is so beyond good in it, I just- the entire cast is fucking fantastic.
Honestly le carre's fondness for stories ending either with nothing really resolved, or with out and out tragedy, says a lot about what espionage is actually like. Even Tinker Tailor, where the plot does wrap up satisfyingly, it's still a real downer
I'd love to see an episode compairing the Tinker Tailor novel to the 2011 movie.
I watched the series on Amazon, mostly because of my love of Hiddleston and Laurie. I thought it was incredible, and I enjoyed your review of it and the book.
Dom: (makes a bad joke; tries to hide his smile because he thinks it's funny)
Me: God, I would walk through fire for this silly brit
I was in a Hiddleston lust-worthy binge and watched an entire hour-long interview with him (and I think the director of "Night Manager) where I thought I'd like to see this. I've already had an interest in detectives and spies so I hoped it be good. On the edge of my seat the whole mini-series and have it to blame for a more involved interest in LeCarre since. I can totally see LeCarre wanting to better Fleming's work and I think he has. The ending of the mini-series is MUCH better than what is described of the book (I still haven't read this one).
I dunno - I kinda think the original book ending is more realistic of how these things work in real life 🤷♀️
Excellent show though, thoroughly recommend!
Yeah in real life the evil criminal gets to continue his business for 20 more years then he gets murdered by a another agency for a different random reason like "he went to that wedding"
I'm one of the Americas that didn't know about this show when it came out. I hadn't heard of it until I saw this video in my feed, so I just watched it on Prime and it was really good. I'm surprised also surprised that it didn't get much attention in the US. I also like that it's a miniseries, but definitely wouldn't have been sad if they had made a second season.
LeCarre's first three novels, including his first big hit _The Spy Who Came In From the Cold_ , were written while he worked for British Intelligence. His cover was blown by Kim *mother-loving* Philby which meant he couldn't stay with whichever MI he was then working with. Fortunately, he was by then a well-known author.
My dad, who briefly worked with one of the MIs in the late 1960s as an exchange officer, loves LeCarre. in his words, "[LeCarre] shows spies as they really are: boring little men in trench coats with bad breath."
Not that you asked, but my two favorite (interlinked, but not sequels in any sense)novels of LeCarre are: _Russia House_ and _The Secret Pilgrim_
I like the Toupee side note. It's so silly, but something human enough to hold onto. Like a very strange coping mechanism from the life he lead.
This show is one of the best shows I've ever seen, and I must have rewatched it... 6 times now? The cast is stellar (Olivia Colman and Tom Hollander make every movie or tv show they appear in worthwhile) and the tension is fantastic! I would recommend it to everyone who has not seen it yet!
I enjoy the lavender shirt, royal purple tie combo.
Thank you Raycon for supporting some of my favorite youtubers but I'll buy wireless earbuds when I'm in hell
Same, I would lose those things so fast
I know exactly where and when those things would fall out of my ears. Right when I'm walking past a drain.
Loki as a spy, I admit that’s relatively plausible
Now, I am a huge fan of spy films and the book(s) sound dope and the series looks intriguing. Given your review, I can mostly agree that I already know I'm not going care for the book ending, but, I've read worse endings 🤷🏿♀️ sad that we here in the States didn't eat this up, but if it's on Prime, I will definitely check this out. Thanks for the great review!
First time I actually stopped a video to watch the show first and not spoiler anything for myself. And boy, I did not regret investing the time to watch it. Then came back to finish the video, thanks for bringing my attention to the show :)
I really enjoyed the mini series. They had it on the channel AMC in the U.S. wish more people saw it here .
"That's all folks" I laughed far more than I should have.
I watched the Night Manager on AMC when it aired....mostly because Tom Hiddleston. Didn't even know what it was about but I mean....Tom HIddleston.
Are you going to be making a video of your thoughts on the Good Omens adaptation? (and if not, what are your opinions? I personally enjoyed it).
I think I remember him saying it had been requested on Patreon, but that it was pretty far down the list. So it's probably forthcoming, but maybe not for a while still
That's one I'd click on,I hated the film personally😊
@@markletts2000 How come? (I'm just curious, everyone I know liked it)
@@markletts2000 film? It was a mini-series?
@King Peppy I enjoyed the Dirk Gently series but it's In Name Only IMO.
That actress who played the gender swapped character seems to be locked into police like roles now but I like her so I think I'll check this out
"That actress", Olivia Coleman is an Oscar winner and a British national treasure. Great series all around but yes, she's fantastic in it.
She's brilliant and a great person
Her Oscar speech is one of the best ever.
She's the new actress playing the queen on 'The Crown' if you're into that kind of show.
@@reneelasswell3734 I'm so bad with actor names so thanks for filling that in for me 😊
She also plays queens!
Me: I wonder if Dom liked the Good Omens adaptation as much as I did.
Dom: Good Omens is worth getting Amazon Prime if you don’t have it already.
Me: Guess so. :)
9.25- Now *that’s* how you do a subversion of expectations.
I was expecting the usual cliche where the boss is all like, ‘this has gotten out of hand- we’re shutting it down; your man’s on his own’-type thing - to go in the opposite direction, was really satisfying.
It's very much le Carre's style to have the ending be downbeat where the protagonist goes through hell for very little apparent gain. I can understand the show wanting a more definitive and upbeat ending.
Time to pause the episode, watch the show and then come back. Sorry Dominic, see you in a week
So I take it you liked good omens? Thank goodness cause I bloody loved it XD
This is a comment designed to fuel engagement as per the request of our Dom. Now, Internet! Engage!
Dom has a really great voice for this stuff, glad he's feeling better, Lost in Adaptation's audio is one of the few things to hit my "immediate calming" receptors.
Currently watching this show 😊 Hugh Laurie and Tom hiddleston are two of my favorite actors 😍
Every LiA episode I get more impressed at the number of ways one can describe this show
OT: I discovered I could get the 'Good Omens' series free on Prime, and watched it this weekend. Totally brilliant!
I have watched this series twice on Amazon Prime and truly enjoyed it both times.
Just came to the cast....Hugh Laurie and Olivia Colman... Ill be back after I've seen it. You're creaping up on 2oo K subs. So Very derserved😊
Well let’s add this one to the list of „things I wouldn’t have discovered without Dom“. I really wanna get into both the book and the show. Thanks man
I watched this a little over a year ago and enjoyed it. I'd only heard about it in passing through a friend who was obsessed with Hiddleston. I can't recall any advertising for it or buzz, so it's no wonder it got so little attention here in the States.
I love the fact that it takes a 16 minute youtube video an hour to play while once again the commercials will play perfectly.
Sir Terry is so ADORABLE! Dominic your nice to look at too!
Great review as always Dom, but a slight correction regarding 2:41 : the BBC actually made an adaptation of The Little Drummer Girl a couple of years later and I personally think they did a pretty damn good job. I'd definitely recommend it.
You know, all of these audiobook-related plugs make me wish that I could actually handle listening to them, but they're always read *so goddamned slowly* and it's so aggravating.
granted, I did watch the entire series in the last 7 hours of a trans-Atlantic flight home, but I seem to have missed a ton. may have to give it another look
Ogod, trans-Atlantic brain ... I could probably forget a real life murder on the plane after 5-6 hours ...
I utterly adore the Night Manager! It's one of the few TV Series that actually made me want to read the book. While I don't think it was as good as the series, I still adored Pine and breathed a sigh of relief when he was rescued.
Also did you guys hear we're getting two more series of this? I'M HYPED! 🤩
Glad to hear you liked Amazon's Good Omens
Ok, so the fact that you are shocking Ray J's earphones is surprising, refreshing &, from what I hear of the product, shows quality is a thing of yours...SEXY. 10 POINTS RAVENCLAW 🏅
On the strength of the description of the show at the beginning of the episode, I paused it and went and watched the whole thing. It's really really good. Stellar cast and thrilling story. Amazing, and a treat, to see Laurie playing genuinely chilling evil.
The Spy that Came in from the Cold still stands up.
I loved this series as I’m a hiddlestoner, Tom Hiddleston was fantastic, and Hugh Laurie was awsome too
*sigh* This also reminds me how much I miss Hiddleston's Loki. Let's hope the series is going to be good.
I quite enjoyed this show! Each episode left me wanting to know what happened next, and, I can't lie, getting to watch Tom HIddleston is always a treat. Hopefully this will entice more people here in the US to watch it.
Not really a fan of spy thrillers but I do remember all the Hiddleston fangirls going nuts over this. I might check out the show now.
I had no idea what the show was about when I started it and got absolutely absorbed by it. The actors are brilliant and it is outstandingly made.
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As a person in customer service, sounds legit.
I’m still so glad I saw this. It had amazing tension and strong acting. I tend to follow the careers of specific actors I really like, so I saw this when I was initially getting really into Tom Hiddleston’s work.
I‘d love a Lost in Adaptation about the Cormoran Strike Series tbh 👀
Oh my god you did my favourite le Carré book.
This is one of my favourite books of all time and as much as I liked the tv show the turns of phrase and descriptions in the book have stayed with me forever. That being said I sometimes just flip last while chapters on the spy stuff when I’m rereading.
Thank you so much for bringing this show to my attention, would have never even noticed it on Amazon Prime as it was buried when I went to find it.
I remember seeing promos for this in America And watching it live. It didn't seen very popular over here and I was confused why. It's tom hiddleston playing what is quite literally a real james bond. People had been wanting that for years. Glad to see it at least did well in the uk...
Ohhh I cannot wait for that Good Omens review - teeheehee! ^.^