I was really looking forward to seeing this. All the ingredients are there, a true spy story, Damien Lewis, Guy Pearce and Adrian Edmondson. So what went wrong?
1. Well, as many others have stated, it's annoyingly so dark, sometimes I thought my TV had been turned off it was so dark. This is something I've noticed is happening in a lot of recent productions.
2. The unnecessary addition of Anna Maxwell Martin's character, not in the book. There would never have been a woman debriefing agents in the sixties let alone one who was married to a black man. We know why these two were crow-barred into it don't we? And why oh why was she made to attempt a, failed, Durham accent? I mean the character is fictitious so she could have just spoken in her real one. This alone spoils it for me.
The acting however is superb, especially Guy Pearce with Damien Lewis a close second but after 2 episodes I can't watch anymore.
1. Well, as many others have stated, it's annoyingly so dark, sometimes I thought my TV had been turned off it was so dark. This is something I've noticed is happening in a lot of recent productions.
2. The unnecessary addition of Anna Maxwell Martin's character, not in the book. There would never have been a woman debriefing agents in the sixties let alone one who was married to a black man. We know why these two were crow-barred into it don't we? And why oh why was she made to attempt a, failed, Durham accent? I mean the character is fictitious so she could have just spoken in her real one. This alone spoils it for me.
The acting however is superb, especially Guy Pearce with Damien Lewis a close second but after 2 episodes I can't watch anymore.