I've finished watching The Night Manager on Saturday. It's a great piece of television which shows the benefits of investing in the right screenwriters, actors, directors, other crew members, and stumping up for location shooting. Tom Hiddleston is brilliant in it, as are Hugh Laurie as 'the worst man in the world' and Tom Hollander, who managed to be both sympathetic and terrifying, particularly in the scene involving a lobster salad.
It is a story which can't be done in a two-hour film and needed a six-hour miniseries to properly do the events and characters justice.
If you haven't seen it, it's out on Blu-ray/DVD shortly (if not already), so do yourself a favour and rent or buy a copy.
I began watching the fifth season of The Sopranos last night, but will probably take a break for couple of nights to watch a rental of the first season of The Tunnel (the English/French remake of The Bridge).
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