Night Manager Episode 1

[bratty_jedi]

I have an online meeting at 10:30. It is required for my funding this year and I hate it. 10:30 is the worst possible time for me. I usually write best in the mornings, say 9:30 to lunch. If I start at 9:30, I'll barely get going before the 10:30 meeting interrupts but then it isn't over until basically lunch time. So on days when we have these

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[chemina42]

Now I'm slightly disappointed to read that there was Canadian content in the original book that won't be in the mini-series, but I guess that just means I need to get on reading the book STAT

[bratty_jedi]

The Canada section in the novel is cool for getting to know Pine's character more intimately, but it isn't really central to the larger plot and has no place for Colman or Laurie's characters. It's months of Pine hiding out to establish his underground backstory that he'll use to infiltrate Roper's organization. It works well in the novel when you're more in Pine's head, but I can definitely see why it was cut for the TV series.

[qwentoozla]

I just watched the first episode and thought it was fantastic! So well done, lots of great scenes. I'm really looking forward to more interaction between Pine and Roper too--I was just waiting for them to meet the whole time. It will be great to see more of Hugh Laurie... he already had a kind of hidden evilness going on, but I want to see more! I'm so glad they changed the spy handler's role to a woman because I LOVE Olivia Colman and am always happy to see her in anything.

It's interesting to hear about the adaptation! I was wondering how they had updated it. It makes sense that they would eliminate the Canada and South America portions, as the Middle East conflict feels a lot more current. Thanks for linking to the articles, it was great to see what John le Carre and Tom Hiddleston had to say about it. Le Carre's thoughts about adaptation were very interesting.