"The Night Manager" on AMC

is this a remake of that Barbra Streisand/Gene Hackman film?

I, myself, plan to watch it.

Tom Hiddleston looks really good in the previews.

Brit here, no spoilers. Plot, variety of locations and fine cast ensured I stayed with it. No expense spared. Gay interest (apart from Hiddleston).

It evidently had watercooler appeal, in that viewers united to discuss the show, 'just like back the old days.' The original TV 'Tinker Tailor' was for me the benchmark Le Carre, which I periodically re-watch.

'Night Manager' despite its feature film budget didn't for me quite match the downbeat glamour of 'Tinker Tailor', but then I'm old. Be interested to see what DL makes of 'Night Manager.' Recommended!

I couldn't get through the whole show. The casting was odd and unconvincing. I did not buy Hugh Laurie as the bad guy, and Tom Hiddleston is not even poor man's James Bond. The woman playing Laurie's wife can't act her way out of a paper bag. Olivia Colman and Tom Hollander make it watchable.

Been there and done that...watched it on BBC iPlayer. Loved Oliva Coleman....enjoyed her performance.

It looks great, but the writing is weak. Olivia Colman steals the show from both Hiddleston and Laurie, whose characters make little sense.

I haven't seen it, but Colman is the name I keep hearing when it comes to the reason to watch, to the point that maybe she should be the new Bond.

I'll definitely be watching

I've had him

We know, Ken

I'll take R4's advice and watch it.

If for nothing else, just to ogle Hiddleston.

It premieres tonight, if anyone cares.

Once again this site is infested with fraus.

I'm trying to watch it but it's pretty dull.

What R15 said. Rather cheesy.

It is dull, R15, isn't it?

Visually, it's beautiful, though I did have to laugh at Morocco trying to pass for Egypt. It was obvious it was the former and you don't have to be some globetrotter to know it.

Hiddleston is a very attractive man, but I have to admit, it's the first time I've ever seen him in anything.I've never seen his other work. I think he's a good enough actor, but I do hope this series gets better because it was as if they were satirizing a Bond film.

Any other DirecTV customers' have trouble recording this show? I set up the recording last week to record all new eps, starting with this week's premiere and when I search for the program it shows that it's set to record, but it didn't record the ep. Ughhhhh...

I wanna make love to him slowly and religiously--like they do in the Bible.

I tried watching this last month and gave up after the first episode. It was boring

Very third rate show. Going to get canceled after season 1. Hiddleston's character was flat out dull.

R22, it's a 6 part miniseries.

The ratings were crap, but the show has sold everywhere and made AMC and the BBC loads of money already. It is absolutely going to get renewed if the people involved want to continue with it.

I watched the first episode yesterday, and I loved it. It reminds me of the Sean Connery era Bond fillms. The scenery was gorgeous. Tom Hiddleston was extremely watchable, and I found Hugh Laurie very convincing as the bad guy. He's menacing. There are the usual slimy bureaucrats inside the government, and I found Morocco convincing as Sgypt. So there.

So the show's had an absolutely huge jump with time-delayed viewing. Interesting. Looks like the BBC and AMC will probably be pushing hard for a second season now.

How can a six-part miniseries have a second season?

Considering what you wrote here...

"I watched the first episode yesterday, and I loved it. It reminds me of the Sean Connery era Bond fillms. The scenery was gorgeous. Tom Hiddleston was extremely watchable, and I found Hugh Laurie very convincing as the bad guy. He's menacing. There are the usual slimy bureaucrats inside the government, "

...quelle surprise regarding this:

"and I found Morocco convincing as Sgypt[sic]. So there. "

"So there" is essentially the equivalent of Chris Rock's joke about taking pride in your ignorance. Don't.

Hiddleston is hoping he did enough in this to get Bond but he didn't seem gritty enough to me.

"How can a six-part miniseries have a second season? "

Hiddleston gets a psychedelic van, a dog and a couple of people going around the world solving crimes.

In Britain six episodes is a season. And yes, they desperately want to extend it, but Laurie and Hiddleston want le Carre to write a sequel first.

I am watching 2nd episode. So far, I'm liking it.

[quote]Laurie and Hiddleston want Le Carre to write a sequel first.

At a guess this seems like a reach. Le Carre is now into his 80s, very rich, the subject of a biography and soon to publish his own memoir. He's still prolific, so doubtless has another novel (remote from 'NM' buzz) underway.

I think it unlikely he'd be seen to turn to a sequel not necessarily of his choosing at the behest of the BBC and two popular actors, even if they are both Old Etonians. We'll see.

I think it's unlikely too, BUT it's le Carre's sons that own the production company that brought The Night Manager to TV screens. To say he has motivation is an understatement.

[quote]I did have to laugh at Morocco trying to pass for Egypt. It was obvious it was the former and you don't have to be some globetrotter to know it.

Mary! or should I say, Fatima!

[quote] ...quelle surprise regarding this:

Oh my God--and you know French too! You really [italic]are[/italic] Miss World!

We enjoyed it here in the UK, but r5 is right. Its a series based on a novel (and was changed considerably from the book) so how can there be a second series unless Le Carre writes one? I hate it when great series such as Homeland are ruined and diluted by continuing with several weaker series until people lose interest.

I'm surprised with this being DL (and the only place I've ever heard of him) that no one has mentioned Russell Tovey in the first episode.

Who's Russell Tovey?

The British embassy guy with the unfortunate ears. He's openly gay and DL was the only place I ever saw him mentioned

As soon as I saw that sleazoid Tovey, I lost interest in the show.

Overused plot. Nice guy falls in love with gangster's whore. Whore gets murdered. Nice guy brings down those responsible.

It's not innovative and life changing but it's bloody entertaining, beautifully filmed, with a good cast. Hiddleston is very bangable in it.

Its an expensive production but ruined by the girl playing the love interest - Elizabeth Debecki or suchlike - she is a total blank. What would the Laurie character have seen in her?

The Laurie character is at the very least a narcissistic sociopath, so would likely go for eye/arm candy who is totally malleable. Bought and paid for. Or so he thinks.

Actually my main problem with TNM is Laurie. He looks devilish enough, but comes across to me as a pantomime villain: way too many line readings with the same rasping emphasis. He appears second-rate up against Hiddleston, who has more vocal range and nuance.

[quote]Its an expensive production but ruined by the girl playing the love interest - Elizabeth Debecki or suchlike - she is a total blank.

Agree. TERRIBLE actress.

R4 said there was gay interest.

Is there?

Corky (Tom Hollander) is gay.

Tom Hollander is usually gay - has any actor played more gay roles?

That should have been 'has any other actor played more gay roles? !

R45 Laurie's accent choice is absolutely terrible. Posh English accents have softened over the last 20-30 years. Even the Queen's has changed. It just made his character seem ridiculous.

R45 is spot-on. I adore Laurie as an actor, but the moment he introduced himself as "Dickie," I felt like he was playing a caricature of a villain. Granted, I'm only two episodes in, but I think Laurie is a lot like Clooney or Hanks in that it's hard to see Laurie as "serious" or "evil." Probably didn't help that I watched the second episode right after I watched "Veep."

I'm enjoying it so far.

Laurie is a good actor, but he's far more suited to playing characters who straddle the line between good and bad. I just don't 'believe' him as an out and out villain. His comedy skills are second to none though, and boy does he know how to fall over!

Poor Russell Tovey - the British masculine gay - has been relegated to less than 2 minutes screen time. He was basically an extra.

Why did R41 call Tovey a "sleazoid"? Does he have a reputation?

Neither male lead is ideally cast. Laurie glowers well, but I don't find him threatening enough. Hiddleston is more attractive here than in any of his other films/shows (I'd do him in a nanosecond), but this part needs someone more like a young Michael Caine. Honestly Tom Hardy would have been much better, but I doubt he would bother with a TV project right now. Also, there's no real chemistry between Hiddleston and any of the female characters.

I haven't read LeCarre's book, but while the story is mildly engaging, it seems pretty familiar territory and the production overall seems second-rate.

Tom Hollander is mildly amusing, but he's basically playing a nasty, dangerous queen - something he can do with his eyes closed.

I don't know much about Hollander. Is he gay?

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R59 here - I forgot that DL redacts posts with links to The Independent. Anyway, there's a recent interview with him there where he states that he isn't gay. Given that his being out wouldn't harm his career IMO, there's no reason to disbelieve him. He certainly plays gay well.

My favorite Tom-Hollander-playing-gay movie is called Bedrooms and Hallways. It's a funny little movie from around 2002 with the very hot James Purefoy and Kevin McKidd as one quasi couple and Tom Hollander and Hugo Weaving as another. Tom is hilarious as a kind of a tart. I recommend it.

Do the two Toms hookup at any time in The Night Manager? That would be worth watching.

I prefer my Americans be played by Americans.

Little Tom's attraction to Big Tom adds to the unfolding psychological game in hand. It becomes a point of middling but effective importance.

Can someone catch me up on the plot?

I caught episode three, but I'm sort of lost. The story is hard to follow, because there's so much being un-said.

Is the Hiddleston character gay? He seems like it. I agree, though... he's totally fuckable.

Who did Russell Tovey play? I missed it.

There's a marathon today on AMC, so I might catch it.

Tovey was in the first episode. He played the embassy guy who gets the documents from Hiddleston's character. Tovey sends these documents to Colman's character and that gets the ball rolling. Later in the first episode Hiddleston's character begs Tovey's character to help the mistress to go undercover and Tovey's character denies his request.

Russel Tovey received quite a backlash two years ago for some remarks he made. I've got to admit the controversy put me off bigtime and it was one of the reasons why I wasn't in the mood to watch the second season of HBO's Looking.

r66 he was right

r67, no he was not. He thanked his dad for making him butch. That's a self loathing douche move.

In Britain six weeks is not a "season" , r31.

I think it was ok. Coleman and Hollander were the best thing about it. Hiddleston was boring and wooden, just an extension of his polite Eton schoolboy training. Laurie had surprisingly little psychological depth.

A second series wouldn't work with the whole cast - certainly not the Hughe Laurie character - as that would completely undermine series 1 .

I found it good couch potato viewing, but nothing compelling. I wasn't a fan of the Danish director, what she was aiming for didn't seem to match with the direction the storyline was going in.

[quote]In Britain six weeks is not a "season"?

Do you mean that in a literal sense, as in that Britain uses the term series instead of season? Because otherwise there are shows like Absolutely Fabulous which had, in their first two seasons, only six episodes (in later series / seasons they added specials and one or two episodes more and season 6 were just 3 episodes). Vicar of Dibley series / seasons had from just 3 episodes to up to 8 episodes, including specials, per series / season.

The latest season of Grantchester, which the British call a "series," was only six episodes.

What word do the Brits use to describe an entire series, i.e., one with multiple seasons?

Okay, so I caught the first three episodes in the AMC marathon, and I absolutely LOVED it!

I finally get why people love Tom Hiddleston. He is so fucking sexy! His hair, his body, his face, his demeanor. I also see why people are speculating that he should be the next James Bond. He's basically a younger version of Daniel Craig, which is awesome.

That evil little queen who is the thorn in Hiddleston's side, is perfection. He plays that role so well, and I'm surprised that the show made him the villain. But I'm happy they did, because he is great. You just want to smack him in the face.

i agree that the Hugh Laurie character is very subdued, and I'm not sure I believe that he would take the Pine character into his fold so easily. Especially since the circumstances are so questionable. So the night manager in a Swiss hotel, all of a sudden shows up as a cook in Mallorca, Spain, just in time to save his son from kidnappers? Yeah, right.

The real revelation of this show is the woman who plays the British intelligence officer, in league with Pine. Man, she's a fine actress, and she really is the driving force behind this show.

There are many familiar faces in this mini-series, and I can't wait to see how it ends up.

Oh, and more naked Tom Hiddleston, please!

I love Tom's beautiful blue eyes.

R72, in the UK their word for seasons is series as in Series 2 Episode 4.

Most shows have 5 or 6 episodes. Some shows have 2 or 3 90 minute episodes - at times shown in two 45 minute segments. However, I think the magic number is 13 for it to get picked up for foreign distribution.

Something popular like Vikings went up to 20 episodes this year - their 4th series or, in Americanese, their 4th season.

I love that British individual episodes run for whatever time it takes to properly tell the story. Some 44 minutes some 57 minutes. It's all over the board.

You miss the point, R75. When considered in their entirety, The Sopranos, The Wire, Homicide, and every other show that lasts more than one season are referred to as a series. Each show constitutes the series. Each season is a season. My question was "What word do the British use to describe [bold]the entire run of a show[/bold]?" It's not "series," because "series" means "season" in Britain. So what is their word?

[quote]The real revelation of this show is the woman who plays the British intelligence officer, in league with Pine.

Olivia Colman. She is indeed great, and has been in any number of UK TV shows worth watching. Happily, she's now getting good film parts.

Colman has one scene in particular which is phenomenal, Brando-in-the-back-of-the-cab good: what gives the speech such impact, apart from OC's high talent, is that it expresses the moral core of TNM. Unforgettable.

At a guess, the performance will send another BAFTA her way.

[quote]It's not "series," because "series" means "season" in Britain. So what is their word?

I believe in the UK they simply call it the show and mabe specify like "the whole/entire show" or "the whole/entire show's run" .

r76, here is a link to a discussion about your question. I hope it clears it up a bit a bit.

Primarily in the sense that it's a "series" not a "season", r70, but one could also argue it's a mini-series. In fact, in the strictest terms, it may not even be a series as it was supposedly initially intended as a one-off, based on the Le Carré novel. But, since it was popular and can sell abroad, there is clamour for more.

R73, a lot of people already know who Olivia Coleman is, so she's not really a "revelation". She's so well-known that the strength of her status alone was enough to change the character from a male in the book to a female on screen. But, yes, she is the driving force in a programme that otherwise has very little drive.

Damn, he's hot. I would lick every inch of him.

I didn't know much about Tom before this show, but I'm starting to believe that he's gay. He hasn't been romantically linked with a woman for an extended period of time, and he seems to be very "stylish," if you know what I mean.

Maybe he's in the closet in hopes of becoming a huge star. Who knows?

In any case, he's a very sexy man.

I wonder who would be top, Tom or Teacher?

Yum.

The locations are gorgeous especially where they shot that house on the cliff over the ocean.

I only knew Olivia Colman as the goofy cop in Hot Fuzz so I was totally surprised at how good she is in this. She is great. As is Tom Hollander (but he's usually good so I wasn't surprised)

R85 - And who can forget Olivia Colman in "Broadchurch". I think she stole the show from David Tennant. The first season was gripping. I didn't enjoy the second season as much.

[quote] Colman has one scene in particular which is phenomenal, Brando-in-the-back-of-the-cab good: what gives the speech such impact, apart from OC's high talent, is that it expresses the moral core of TNM.

R77, are you referring to the scene in which she explains to Pine that he needs to do it for his country?? If so, that's exactly the scene that made me realize what a wonderful actress she is.

That scene was so powerful, I was just blown away. That lady is a force.

I didn't know who she was before this series, but I'll definitely never forget her after this.

[quote]I didn't know much about Tom before this show, but I'm starting to believe that he's gay.

I'm sure you are. Sorry, he's banging the respectable Olsen sister.

[quote] Sorry, he's banging the respectable Olsen sister.

Anyone who fucks one of those freaks loses all of my respect.

Elisabeth Olsen isn't a freak dude.

Re: R87, actually not that scene but another, later, when she tells a colleague exactly why she's pursuing Roper so obsessively. Won't say any more, you'll know it when you see it.

Are they actually still together? I mean I know she broke off her engagement as she was fucking TH during filming of that shit Hank Williams movie.

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The God of Tumblr fanfiction! Squeeeeeeee!

Colman is well known in the UK, not in the US.

I think she's a very good actress, but I was shocked she was only 42. I thought she was 50 (even with the pregnancy).

I think this is my first experience with a John Le Carre project. Just got caught up to the US airings. Is all of his work this, um, broad and hammy? The promos for the show had me expecting something a tad more sophisticated, but there are enough surface pleasures to keep me engaged for at least another week even if I don't really buy a single thing going on with the characters.

BTW, what the hell is up with - in 2016, when the world is flat - the BBC still hiring British actors who do AWFUL American accents? Talking about the black CIA guy who's partnering with Oliva Coleman and the smaller part of some American intelligence official - middle aged white woman who was in that meeting that Olivia Coleman's boss was called into. Their American accents are almost as bad as Hugh Laurie's was in HOUSE.

[quote]Is all of his work this, um, broad and hammy?

Le Carre has often sold his work to screens big and small, and quality control only goes so far.

'The Spy Who Came In From The Cold' was a well-received downbeat b/w thriller which gave Richard Burton a suitably seedy if compelling leading role. 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' was great TV, not least because Alec Guinness had the power to amend the script; it was a masterclass in character acting, nuance and mood, all but flawless. (Surprisingly the recent film didn't flounder in its wake, and was gripping on its own terms.) Other recent film adaptations 'The Constant Gardener' and 'A Most Wanted Man' were similarly watchable thrillers, very accomplished, if hardly upbeat about how the world works.

'The Night Manager' by contrast I did find a mixed bag. Colman and Hiddleston among others were spot on, true to the realpolitik spirit of Le Carre; but the 70s style credits and Hugh Laurie's Sideshow Bob impersonation just reek of yes, 'broad and hammy.' Le Carre isn't Ian Fleming, and producers/directors shouldn't attempt that compromise. Still, at least the work mentioned above, and other titles, show that some directors at least capture the author's spirit well.

Perhaps I wasn't clear enough by referring to UK TV shows as "shows," but I did get your point, R76.

They are called shows. Simple as that.

R97, I'm with you. I think you have to watch it for what it is and nothing more. No real depth, just a soapy spy series/show/season/program (that about cover it? Don't want to offend any of you).

Liked the woman who played the rich arabs mistress, Hate the blond. I think it will be eventually revealed she has some kind of essential connection to a deal in progress. There is just no there there with her.

R98 le Carre's sons produced 'The Night Manager' so he would have had at least some sway. A lot of the problems stemmed from the fact that they tried to update the novel to make it more relevant by setting the start of it during the 'Arab Spring'. It didn't work though. The whole thing still reeks of colonialism, which made it feel outdated.

LeCarre's more cerebral work doesn't usually adapt well to the screen, especially with directors increasingly going for pacing over nuance. SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD and A MOST WANTED MAN are probably the most successful feature film adaptations of his work. The recent TINKER, TAILOR... was OK but little more than a Cliff Notes version of the novel and it pales next to the miniseries.

THE CONSTANT GARDENER suffered from a overly-hectic, ADHD style of direction, in spite of Feinnes and Weisz. I haven't seen THE TAILOR OF PANAMA, but the worst adaptation of all is THE LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL, which should have been a terrific movie and is wrecked by the disastrous casting of Diane Keaton (in a role based in part of Vanessa Redgrave - the part cried out of Judy Davis) and the flat direction of George Roy Hill.

..cried out for Judy Davis, I meant.

I would love to live on that Mallorcan estate. It's so gorgeous.

Supposedly some British banker bought "La Fortaleza Mallorca" for 40 million Euros. Damn!

I guess he loaned it to them for filming.

Wow, that scene with Corky making an ass of himself in the restaurant was SO uncomfortably good. It was completely cringeworthy.

The actor who plays him, does a fantastic job of being the biggest prick in the entire world.

Poor Corky - just another twink who thought all straight gorgeous men are at least a little homoerotic. Had him on his knees, face first in a man's crouch, in a public restaurant, with no takers.

John le Carré does actually have a cameo role in the series. Read r107 for a clue as to which scene.

This was a fantastic episode. It's getting exciting!

Yes, the Corky scene was very awkward. When he started mimicing the waiters and calling them "greaseball," it made me very uncomfortable.

And what was with Pine fucking the blonde??? Is he an imbecile? Yes, that's the smartest fucking thing in the world to do... sleep with your benefactor's whore. Oh no, that won't get you killed.

The intel-lady did a bang up job, once again. She really takes over every scene she's in. If this were an American series, she'd probably win an Emmy for her performance.

So who killed Mr. Apostle?

This beautiful hotel in Mallorca has a very similar setting - you have to scroll through to see the peninsula that it's set on. When I first watched the NM, I thought they were using the grounds of this hotel but after a few more episode it looks like somewhere slightly different.

The couple killed in the end. Who were they?

Spanish guy who met with Angela Burr in the church.

Haha, I agree, that scene at the resto was so funny, the way he was grabbing his ass...I wonder how many times they had to shoot that scene...lucky bastard!

Yes, lovely spanish views! really pretty!

The way Hiddleston defused the situation in the restaurant was pure James Bond. It felt like a set piece audition for the role. He was so commanding in that charming Etonian manner that Bond is supposed to have.

[quote] The couple killed in the end. Who were they?

His name is Apostle, and that was his wife.

He was in partnership with Roper at the beginning of the series, but when his daughter committed suicide, he decided to partner up with British intelligence.

How many more episodes?

Hiddleston would be a great Bond and it would give him a break from playing the comic book villain with the helmet that makes him look like the Tick.

I haven't seen the latest episode yet, but what I'm getting from these comments is that Corky makes a Fool of himself in a restaurant, is rude to the waiters, and grabs Tom Hiddleson's ass and puts his face in his crotch? Nice.

Bumping this for the moron who doesn't know how to use the search feature.

Thanks Mother Teresa.

I think Hiddleston would be better as Bond than this role, he is a bit too posh. The actress playing Jed would be better suited to play the more attractive sister of Brianne of Tarth.

r16 Like you'd ever find one who would want to fuck you

Jed is supposed to be a femme fatale but she comes across as a bit transgendery.

Damn you George Smiley! Damn you and all who sail in you! Welcome to Siberia.

nice

Hiddleston is desperate to be the next Bond but despite his muscles he still seems too narrow-faced and delicate for the role. There needs to be an element of brute in Bond.

2 more episodes. Oh Corky.

Tom Hardy or Aidan Turner would be more convincing as Bond. Hiddleston is too ferret-like, but a hot ferret nonetheless

WTF is R123 talking about?

There was a scene in the Night Manager where Roper tells Pine that he is handsome among other attributes. Hiddleston gave him a sightly embarrassed, simpering look. It was very queeny.

Howcome no one has mentioned that Tom HIddleston has a quite a bubble butt??

The way he filled out those tailor made pants, was.... so nice.

R131 That was one of the things that convinced me he's not straight. Amongst many others.

Hiddleston is definitely gay, in my book.

But why don't we hear more discussion about this? Is he THAT deeply closeted, that there are no rumors about him?

I don't see much of a bubble butt on him at all. Looks quite average

R131 and his love scene with the Amazon Blonde was painfully lacking in chemistry.

Every time he blushed when Roper's character complimented him, I laughed. There was far more chemistry between Hiddleston and Laurie than there was between him and the blonde, even though I'm 99% sure Laurie prefers women.

R124, probably that actress being 6'2-3/4" adds to the tranny-seeming factor (Christ! that tall is past model-tall and into basketball players, LOL)

Yes, R138, she was supposed to be this divine female that all men were in love with, but in my experience men don't fall for women who are inches taller than them, or even the same height. TH is tall - they should have found him someone who was about 5' 8'.

Killing the gay villain. Ever so original. I don't watch shows with Bury Your Gays. Fuck this show and fuck the people how declare this good or acceptable.

Just watched episode 5. Only one more to go...they show make more!

Best episode thus far. Mostly because it was so action packed that you didn't have time to appreciate how ridiculous and hamfisted most of it is. Hope they keep this swift pace in ep 6. Also, wonder why the Broadchurch gal took this gig. What a boring, thankless role that could have been played by any no name actress.

It really was action packed!

Wouldn't Roper have questioned the fact that Pine killed Corky? Even a little bit? I mean, he could've just subdued him instead of killing him. That didn't really make sense.

Also, the gf seems like a liability at this point, and Roper surely would've killed her, if he was the ruthless man that the show has made him out to be.

I have a feeling that the intelligence lady is going to get killed in the end. She knows way too much for the "powers that be" to let her live. The agents from "The River" all seem so evil. To think that we truly have government agents in power (in real life) who are partnered with real life Richard Ropers, is scary.

I don't know how Pine is going to continue fooling Roper, especially in Egypt, where everybody knows him.

Once Corky was dead, Roper's major concern was to get rid of him.

If you think Roper did not question that death, you must have missed the last few minutes.

If you think Roper brought Pine to Egypt accidentally you weren't paying attention. He brought Pine to the EXACT SAME fucking hotel that Pine used to work at. That was no accident and certainly no coincidence.

Pine's cover is officially blown. Roper totally knows it was Pine that provided the invoice copies to the Brits.

You are right about "the intelligence lady" being endangered. I think the fact that she is pregnant is bound to be important during the last episode.

I guessed that Roper knew about Pine when he gave him the new identity "Birch" and stressed the C and H, as in Cairo Hotel

R145 - Yes! Good catch on that. Yeah, clearly he knows (or, at a minimum, deeply suspects that Pine is the 'mole'). I don't think preggers-Broadchurch-gal is getting axed. I don't see this show getting that dark.

That's interesting, R145.

So he must've been pretty damned upset when Pine killed Corky, although he didn't really show it.

Roper must also know that Pine is fucking his girlfriend, so I wonder why he hasn't killed them both already.

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$68M??? Jesus Christ. I don't believe for a second that he was offered that and turned it down.

"Pine's cover is officially blown. Roper totally knows it was Pine that provided the invoice copies to the Brits. "

Just couldn't get into this. And I love Olivia Colman. She's doing a really bad Northern accent.

What's with her constantly calling her husband "Mr. Birch." WTF is this, a Jane Austen novel?

$68M must include profits. Still that is staggering. Daniel Craig must be loaded and really ready to move on. Next.

R148 Hiddleston's team have been crawling for that role for him, in spite of his protestations that it's all just rumours and speculation. Good luck to the guy though! He'll be able to retire and stop with the bearding after 4 or 5 Bond films.

Daniel Craig must be an idiot, R153, to turn down that kind of money.

Most (grateful) actors would do anything to get such a plum role. But he has already proven himself to be an entitled and arrogant asshole, so...

R154, TH is not gay - what's all this nonsense about 'bearding'? You sound like a Larrie.

R155, Brits don't care as much about money. Once we have a few million, that is fine and we don't do a single thing we don't want to do just to get more. DC has a dodgy leg from filming fight scenes and probably doesn't fancy all the action sequences and being doped up on opiates to get through.

Oh come one. Now Hiddleston is gay? Please. I recall threads on here about him from years ago from people who went to RADA with himsaying he wasn't gay, just luvvy and effete. This isn't a Cavill situation where I used to see threads about him before I ever knew who the fuck he was, but I sure as hell knew that some actor I had never heard of was gay.

Aside from the gay version of fangurl fanfiction about him with Branagh, I don't recall any thread on here about him being gay. I mean I wouldn't be surprised if he was, but only now that he has more name recognition am I seeing gays coming out of the woodwork to proclaim he's gay. This isn't a Cavill situation, so don't start with this shit where you have no clue about his sexuality.

on* not "one"

Hiddleston looks old for 35. He has a scrunched up look between his eyes and might benefit from Botox. Craig had a lot of work done before he attempted Bond. I saw a re-run of Enduring Love and he looked pretty gnarly in it even though it was 12 year ago.

Is he gay or just British? He would be a switch back to the effete Bond of Pierce Brosnan-- yawn. Can't we get a hairy chested, swarthy Scot or Irish lad to play Bond? In the Connery mode? That would be hot. Hiddleston is a tad to fey for me, but his ass did look nice is those cargo pants.

Like Aidan Turner, R160.

I think Hiddleston is cute, but I agree about the hairy chest and TH doesn't have that.

Hiddleston is not very attractive. He's better on screen than in photos but he is far from leading man material.

If Bond is a modern day Bond then one could do well with a minority actor such as Idris or a handsome Middle Eastern. But they need to be smooth. Smooth and dapper.

The original script had Olivia Colman's character killed off in the fifth episode. Adjustments had to be made to allow for a possible second season.

Olivia Colman's character was pretty clunky and would have been killed off had she behaved the way she did.

[quote] Hiddleston is a tad to fey for me, but his ass did look nice is those cargo pants.

I've been saying all along that he has a bubble butt! You could see it nicely filling out the military pants that he was wearing.

[quote] Is he gay or just British?

Nope, not gay. haha

Nah, R165. Get back to me when you have something like this:

I love Olivia Coleman. She injects a lot of life into this series. The black dude from Homeland is good too.

I think of him as the black Martian from Supergirl...!

oooh tom

TH looks very good in this show, if he worked out more, he could look the part for James Bond.

R160 is absolutely right.

Tonight's the series finale.

You just know that Roper's going to jail.

I think that Pine's cute kitchen worker friend in Cairo is going to help him out.

I was rooting for Roper and Jed and her pout irritate me.

I enjoyed watching this show, I think TH could be the next James Bond. Sad it's all over...

R172: Well.................................................................................................

That was a very satisfying ending. The woman who played Angela Byrd was the best thing about the show.

I just loved seeing the hot Arab guys in the final episode. In particular, the guy who played Yousef and the guy who played Freddie Hadid. Both very handsome, and they both had a lot of chemistry with Tom Hiddleston. Even more chemistry than TH had with the tall blonde lady.

That scene at Freddie's house was particularly homoerotic. Watching Freddie hanging all over TH, who end up in a nice, big house all alone and drunk. And hearing Freddie say that the house is used for business... and pleasure. That would have been the perfect opportunity for Freddie Hadid and Jonathan Pine to get it on! Making sweet love, by the pool. Damn.

Glad to see that Roper got what he deserved in the end. It was worth sticking with all six episodes.

Haha R176, I was waiting for Andrew Birch to get down on his knees and start servicing a very drunk Freddie Hamid.

That would have been so hot!! The actor who played him (David Avery) is very handsome, and he has some great lips.

I think Hiddleston is nice-looking, but he's not Bond. He just isn't.

The guy who played Yousef was handsome too.

I'd like to cum all over Yousef's face and then in his ass

Hiddleston needs to play Bond soon before he loses all his hair. He receding and thinning badly for a 35 year old.

He's a bit ginger too. Bond should have dark hair ideally.

It's funny thinking that the actors who played Yousef and Freddie Hamid are Egyptians, and then hearing them speaking with British accents in real life.

Here's Amir El Masry who plays Yousef.

David Avery who played Freddie Hamid is so damned sexy, too.

Did Tom make sex sex with those two young studs?

yummy

I'm very late to the party, but I just finished watching the whole series, and it was fantastic. Very entertaining, and they didn't waste a single minute in all 6 episodes. Quite well-done.

R184 If he did then no one here would know. DL has been taken over by fraus from PurseForum & Lipstick Alley.

I discovered Debicki in "The Kettering Incident" and loved her in it. She has a bit of Scott-Thomas/Swinton thing going for her, doesn't she?

o tommy

u had a shot at bond, and other prime roles, till u chose as beard the dreadful taylor swift, and she/la lez has bearded for so many gays previously, just a bad pick.

good luck man, i know ur hot ass tits and face will secure u many fab roles in the future.

plus ur brilliant!

R134 You have to go to Reddit and 4Plebs. Commenters there who sometimes work for pr firms know men he’s slept with. I’ve seen the comments from people who work in Hollywood know Tom is gay.

I think she’s Cate Blanchett’s protege. She’s Definitely no Tilda Swinton. She’s simply not weird or unique enough to be that.

what did the reddit and other one say bout who he slept with

gosh i cant plow thru all the comments they have bout tom....

THANK U

What frau is kicking this thread up again?

Here’s just one thing R192. But there’s plenty of things across the net.

I would definitely trust industry insiders. A fat pathetic frau cunt on Tumblr is not an industry insider.

I work in PR (not entertainment) and have a coworker who used to work at a larger entertainment PR firm. We were talking about this relationship when she told me that it was pretty well known throughout the agency/industry that Tom was gay, so you may actually be right on that. This is just hearsay of course, but I'd believe it.

Your mama R193