Episode #1.6 

As Burr faces questions and drastically reduced resources, Jonathan is pushed to the limit.

Director:

Susanne Bier

Writers:

John le Carré (based on the novel by), David Farr

Stars:

Tobias Menzies, Jonathan Aris, Sara Stewart

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Tobias Menzies	...	Geoffrey Dromgoole
Jonathan Aris	...	Raymond Galt
Sara Stewart	...	Barbara Vandon
Katherine Kelly	...	Permanent Secretary
Olivia Colman	...	Angela Burr
Neil Morrissey	...	Harry Palfrey
Adeel Akhtar	...	Rob Singhal
Simona Brown	...	Grace
Tom Hiddleston	...	Jonathan Pine
Mohamed Boussalem	...	Military Courier
Hugh Laurie	...	Richard Roper
Elizabeth Debicki	...	Jed Marshall
Natasha Little	...	Caroline Langbourne
Alistair Petrie	...	Sandy Langbourne
David Avery	...	Freddie Hamid

Storyline

Angela's failure to catch Roper red-handed leads to the closure of her department but a call from Jonathan sends her and Joel to Cairo, where Roper is hoping to close a deal with Freddie Hamid, boyfriend of the dead Sophie. Thanks to Jed Angela is able to secure documents incriminating Roper and Jonathan gets closer to avenging Sophie. But Roper is now suspicious of both Jed and Jonathan, making demands on them both and if Jonathan is to bring him down, save Jed and exonerate Angela he must use what he has to complete his task

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-MA

Details

Country:

UK USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

24 May 2016 (USA)

Box Office

Budget:

£30,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

62 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Neil Morrissey (Harry Palfrey) & Michael Nardone (Frisky) also worked together on Line of Duty (2012) as Morton & O'Neill respectively.

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Goofs

The Arabic on the secret document handed to Jonathan in the hotel lobby is not written correctly, as the letters are all separate rather than joined up.

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Quotes

Angela Burr: Aw, no joy? Must be a peculiar feeling is it? VIP rooms, five star hotels. You're now on the wrong side of the velvet rope. Do you feel quite discombobulated?
Richard Onslow Roper: I suppose you've been preparing this for a while. Practicing in front of the mirror, have we?
Angela Burr: Yeah. Since the sports day, in Kurdistan. I always thought those kids could do with more protection. So that's what's happening now. Me and Jonathan, we're protecting them. Not the ones you've already killed, obviously. But the next ones.
Richard Onslow Roper: ...
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Connections

Featured in The Graham Norton Show: Ice Cube/Kevin Hart/Hugh Laurie/Olivia Colman/Sir David Attenborough/Elle King (2016)

User Reviews

a very rare thing..

The Night Manager

The Night Manager is a character driven mini-series adapted from the novel by John Le Carre, that swept away three Golden Globes on the acting category and was nominated for the best series too.

As much as simple the plot is, despite of its genre, it doesn't unnecessarily grows convoluted or even attempts to make impossible possible. And such simplistic reasons is why it connects with the audience instantly and stays true to its tone throughout the course of it.

The adapted screenplay by Farr is smart as it glorifies each little moments with equal dignity keeping the audience enchanted in its self-created tense bubble that doesn't pop but explodes. Addition to that, it not only is edited perfectly but each character's perspective is accounted in perfectly for it to justify the actions.

It is rich on technical aspects like sharp sound effects, stunning live locations, alluring costume design and metaphorical cinematography that seeks viewers' attention through it.

Beir; the director, is ahead of her game and the viewers, for her description of a sequence is not only electrifying but thought-provoking too; she is in your head from the start. The performance objective is the ace in the hole for the series, since the casting pays off more than well, as Hiddleston, Laurie and Colman have genuinely invested their heart into it.

Pragmatic conversations, three-dimensional characters, tense environment and stellar performances are the high points of this mini-series. Beir's world in here is bolder, faster and scarier than it may seem and no matter how many times the makers play their "close call" theme, it never gets old, it never gets dull.

The Night Manager isn't shady or twisted as one's usual spy thriller and is instead beautiful on visual aesthetics and neat on terms of projecting the questionable morality where "the dirty work" is left upto viewers' imagination; a slick move.

Episode 6

An adequately handled finale of the season especially since all the characters get their own stand-out moments and factors in effectively with a close call agenda rather than pulling out a rabbit from the hat, which is always safe and smart to do so as it works like a charm.