I agree, htis is a shame. I'm a huge fan of spy/counter intelligence fiction, and this is by far the best I've seen since Smiley's People, the second Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy series with Alec Guiness. I've watched Intelligence, Homeland, The Honorable Woman and many other likeminded shows, but this one truely captures the bureaucratic aspect of this work in a very realistic way, remains entertaining while not relying heavily on dramatisation (There's barely a couple of action sequences in the whole series). Season 2 is much much stronger than the first one, and the obvious follow up has a fantastic background to use after the finale's cliffhanger. What I like the most though, is that even if it all always is "to be continued", you could leave it at that and still have a feel of realism, since those stories never end up fully disclosed and often have drastic shifts that makes a unifying thread obsolete.
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pfgpowell-1
8 years ago
I agree entirely. This is in a completely different league and I keep having to remind myself it is essentially TV fiction, so convincing is it all. I think you have to have a certain sensibility to make films and TV of this kind, and sadly the Anglo-Saxon psyche often doesn't get within a million miles of it (by which I mean we Brits and the Americans). It is uncanny how an almost wordless meeting can be so taut and thrilling. I'm now within one hour of finishing season two and I can't wait for season three. But even if that never gets made, I agree the two season are oddly complete in themselves.
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shadowdog3
7 years ago
Good series, about the only thing that got me was how the french coerced the CIA into giving up their mole. The allies are always spying on one another. The french are so lame I can't believe they can't see that. Bunch of whiney cry babies. They rolled over for the germans in WW II like the lap dogs they are. Basically helped load up the Jews in france for the SS. Look it up.
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