The Night Manager - General Discussion

Aethera · December 29, 2018

This topic replaces the old The Night Manager forum which has been vaulted at the location below:

http://forums.previously.tv/forum/2383-the-night-manager-v/

ElectricBoogaloo · February 25, 2019

Olivia Colman won the best actress Oscar for her role as Queen Anne in The Favourite!

FormerMod-a1 · February 22, 2020

I am finally getting around to watching this.

Brookside · February 25, 2020

Olivia Colman's scene in episode six about going undercover as a pregnant woman is genius.

Hava · August 16, 2021

In the first episode, Pine gives MI6 what appears to be an agreement between Ironlast (Roper's company) and Freddie Hamid that describes, in detail, the illegal arms that Ironlast will be selling to Freddie. Even if you ignore the ridiculous notion that an illegal arms trade would have a paper trail like that, how is that the Roper was never charged/convicted based on this evidence alone? Also, doesn't it go against Roper's M.O. to use his own company, Ironlast, in business dealings like this when, later in the series, he explains to Pine that he uses a middleman to create a front company to actually make the deals?

Any help would be much appreciated because, while I very much enjoyed the series, this one thing is really ruining it for me lol.

supposebly · April 20, 2022

So, I finally watched this acclaimed thing. It was very disappointing and rather boring. With the exception of Angela, who apparently was supposed to be a male character, the women were fridged and stupid and barely more than impetus for man pain and male stupidity. So, no more than a cliche.

This all felt very 1980s with the plot fairly standard undercover spy stuff. With camera sweeps and Bond-like music and Mallorca as background. Roper even had a big supervillain lair!

Laurie was ok, I don't find Hiddleston particularly compelling, and Hollander was good too. The one thing that kept me really watching to the end was Olivia Coleman.

I guess I thought the Night Manager would actually BE a nightmamager for the whole series, not just in the first episode until he became undercover spy who stupidly sleeps with the supervillain's girlfriend.

I barely paid attention at the end because I was so bored.