The Little Drummer Girl

A thrilling and exciting , though slow-moving TV series formed by six episodes that has certainly its good moments , outstanding the enjoyable interpretations. It deals with an Israeli counter-intelligence agent : Alexander Skarsgard recruits a stage player called Charlie : Florence Pugh , sympathetic to the Palestine cause to trap fanatic terrorist leaders by impersonating a devote follower . Charlie is placed into a world where she starts being an actress , then becomes a spy, then is trained by Palestinians as a guerrilla and ultimately is sent to deliver a bomb . She is chronically confused by how far she is actually supposed to go in her embodiments and how much herself she must give up. " You want to crack the terror target these days you practically have to build yourself your own terrorist first" . She is the creation of ruthless men . She is Le Carre's drummer girl . She will become their most deadly weapon . As long as they can make her fall in love .

Director not only takes his time , well over 6 hours , with this TV version of the recently deceased John Le Carre , but doesn't do too well at getting us to believe that a pro-Palestinian actress in England could be recruited to the Israeli cause to help root out the very people whose cause she has espoused . This treatment of a fine story takes inspiration enough in too many departments, though lacks more movement and action , however , there's some suspense towards the end . Solid interpretations abound sustaining interest enough through a puzzling , sometimes boring , frustating and tiring tale . Florence Pugh is at or near her very best , she gives a compelling acting , as well as Alexander Skarsgard as an Israeli counter-intelligence officer. Along with other notorious secondaries providing notable performances as Michael Shannon, Max Irons , Katharina Schuttler , and Charles Dance as a British agent . There is another cinematic version dealing with this maze of espionage titled "The Little Drummer girl" 1984 by George Roy Hill with Diane Keaton , Klaus Kinski , Yorgo Voyagis , Sami Frey . Rating 6.5/10 . Decent TV series .

The series was well and professionally directed by Chan-Wook Park Park. He is a prestigious South Korean writer/producer/director . As he has made notorious films , such as : Joint Security Area JSA, Old Boy , Sympathy for Lady Vengeance , Stoker , Handmaiden, among others .