Night Manager (The)
- Director: Susanne Bier, Georgi Banks-Davies
- Writer: David Farr; John le Carré
- Producer: Rob Bullock, Matthew Patnick
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Season 2...
9 years after the first series...The Night Manager returns!
Was it worth the wait?!? Yes!
Older. Bolder. Sexier...bi-sexier! Nastier than before, Laurie takes it - perhaps - a little too far. But...it is the sweaty chemistry between Tom Hiddleston and Diego Calva that commands the centre-stage, their attraction is palpably undeniable...that dance!
The ending is tumultuous...leaving the story wide open for a third/final series...let's hope it's not 9 years away!
Trailer...
Season 1...
Well...if Tom Hiddleston is a favourite to become James Bond...this can do no damage to those prospects. Boyish charm coupled with a chilling and carefree ability to kill!
Hugh Laurie is a bit of a surprise...he does the part justice...vile, cunning and manipulative...with a soupçon of a more mature charm.
Tom Hollander...what a nasty little queen he is...vicious, bitchy and a bit of a slapper...with designs on the future James Bond! Ouch!
And then there's Olivia...grounded - as usual - bringing that maternal quality to the character.
A no-expense-spared quality production, edge-of-the-seat exploding stuff...and, it's all thanks to Susanne Bier, she kept a tight grip on the whole thing.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Season 1...
A night manager of a European hotel is recruited by intelligence agents to infiltrate an international arms dealer's network.
Season 2...
The deeper you go the darker it gets
Jonathan Pine, an Englishman, who works as the night manager of a Cairo hotel, gets involved with a local woman who is the mistress of wealthy playboy Freddie Hamid. Through her relationship with Hamid she has acquired information linking illegal international arms sales with English billionaire Richard Roper. She is soon found dead, murdered because she had this information. Fearing for his own life, Pine flees, ending up working at a remote hotel in Switzerland. Four years later, Roper visits the Swiss hotel, which rekindles Pine's thirst for revenge, and he is enlisted by British Intelligence to spy on Roper. What follows is a dangerous game of intrigue and deception.
Cast & Characters
Tom Hiddleston as Jonathan Pine;
Hugh Laurie as Richard Onslow Roper;
Olivia Colman as Angela Burr;
Tom Hollander as Corcoran;
Elizabeth Debicki as Jed Marshall;
Michael Nardone as Frisky;
Alistair Petrie as Sandy Langbourne;
Douglas Hodge as Rex Mayhew;
David Harewood as Joel Steadman;
Tobias Menzies as Geoffrey Dromgoole;
Neil Morrissey as Harry Palfrey;
Jonathan Aris as Raymond Galt;
Katherine Kelly as Permanent Secretary;
Hovik Keuchkerian as Tabby;
Natasha Little as Caroline Langbourne
Saeson 2...
Tom Hiddleston (as Jonathan Pine)
Hugh Laurie (as Richard Roper)
Olivia Colman (as Angela Burr)
Elizabeth Debicki (as Jed Marshall)
Alistair Petrie (as Sandy Langbourne)
Michael Nardone (as Frisky)
Indira Varma (as Mayra Cavendish)
Diego Calva (as Teddy Dos Santos)
Hayley Squires (as Sally Price-Jones)
Camila Morrone (as Roxana Bolaños)
Hovik Keuchkerian (as Tabby)
Douglas Hodge (as Rex Mayhew)
Slavko Sobin (as Viktor)
Tobias Menzies (as Geoffrey Dromgoole)
Paul Chahidi (as Basil Karapetian)
Noah Jupe (as Daniel Roper / Danny Roper)
Unax Ugalde (as Juan Carrascal)
Diego Santos (as Martín Álvarez)
Tom Hollander (as Lance Corkoran)
Adeel Akhtar (as Rob Singhal)
David Harewood (as Joel Steadman)
José Miguel Hitos Camero (as Intimidating Man #2)
Antonio de la Torre (as Juan Apostol)
Natasha Little (as Caroline Langbourne)
Mario Bolaños (as Horacio Sánchez)