Starring in Graham Norton i gosti: Cher/Keira Knightley/Michael Fassbender/Josh Brolin/Jalen Ngonda (2024)
Synopsis
Helen embarks on a passionate affair with a man who has no idea what her secret identity is. Caught in the crosshairs when her lover falls victim to London’s dangerous underworld, Helen’s employer calls in Sam to protect her. Bingo, the owner of the guitar shop where Sam gets his guns, is played by Rat Scabies, a member of the classic punk band The Damned.
It starts off very well
It’s one of those run-of-the-mill entertainments where you can’t really fault the acting and the production values are pretty impeccable. You think you’re about to be sucked in and seduced by a complex spy thriller. But it’s no John Le Carre.
Instead, you soon realise that it’s neither serious nor funny
As is often the case these days, the problem is the paucity of story. It has quirky characters, and indeed, characters with all the charm and conversational wit one expects from psychopaths. They might be related to Eve from Killing Eve, but they’re poor cousins and don’t really fit well on the scale of psychopathic DNA inheritance.
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It’s a comic book caricature of a spy thriller with a story that relies on a weak plot and frequent action scenes to fill in the gaps. Sadly, it’s disappointing – it could have been really good. “One Hundred Years of Solitude” is one of the biggest TV and streaming premieres this month.