Style trounces substance in small-screen Bond
Daniel Randall reviews The Night Manager (BBC, 2016) The Night Manager has a good go at being right on. The opening episode drops us right in the middle of Tahrir Square, days before the fall of Mubarak. Tom Hiddleston's Jonathan Pine, a dashing ex-soldier working as the eponymous night manager in a luxury Cairo hotel, is first motivated to go after Hugh Laurie's dastardly arms dealer Richard Roper because he's worried the weapons he's selling might be used to put down the uprising. There are some reasonable attempts at powerful moral moments: Pine tells Olivia Coleman's Angela Burr that he...