The Night Manager (2016) Review: Espionage in Silk
★★★★☆
The Night Manager turns John le Carré's novel into a glossy spy thriller, with Tom Hiddleston's hotelier going undercover among arms dealers across two seasons.
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★★★★☆
The Night Manager turns John le Carré's novel into a glossy spy thriller, with Tom Hiddleston's hotelier going undercover among arms dealers across two seasons.
★★★★½
The Office is Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's BBC mockumentary about a deluded Slough boss, a 12-episode sitcom that still sets the standard for cringe comedy.
★★★★★
The Pitt is HBO Max's real-time emergency room drama, each season one Pittsburgh shift, and Noah Wyle's weary attending makes it the new benchmark for medical TV.
★★★½☆
The Protector, Netflix's first Turkish original, makes an Istanbul antiques dealer the city's last guardian against immortals: brisk, handsome, thinly plotted fun.
★★★★½
The Queen's Gambit is Netflix's seven-episode chess drama about an orphaned prodigy, a stylish, absorbing miniseries built on Anya Taylor-Joy's mesmerising lead.
★★★½☆
The Rings of Power is Prime Video's Second Age Tolkien prequel, a visually lavish fantasy epic whose sprawling cast and stately pacing keep it from true greatness.
★★★★☆
The Romance of Tiger and Rose is a 24-episode Chinese fantasy rom-com in which a screenwriter wakes up inside her own script, a playful genre spoof led by Zhao Lusi.
★★★★☆
The Sandman is Netflix's adaptation of Neil Gaiman's comic about the King of Dreams, a gothic, reverent fantasy at its best when telling small, strange stories.
★★★★☆
The Scarecrow is a 12-episode Korean thriller drawn from the Hwaseong murders, a slow-burn procedural that turns its anger on the system as much as the killer.
★★★★★
The Sopranos is David Chase's HBO drama about a New Jersey mob boss in therapy, a darkly funny, novelistic masterpiece that set the template for prestige TV.
★★★★☆
The Testaments is Hulu's adaptation of Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale sequel, a tense coming-of-age drama set inside Gilead and led by a breakout Chase Infiniti.
★★★★☆
The Traitors is the BBC's castle-set reality game of lies and paranoia hosted by Claudia Winkleman, the rare format that makes group psychology gripping television.
★★★★½
The Umbrella Academy is Netflix's comic-book saga about estranged superpowered siblings racing to stop the apocalypse, a funny, stylish family drama in disguise.
★★★★☆
The Uncanny Counter is a Korean webtoon adaptation about spirit hunters based in a noodle shop, a fun supernatural action series powered by found-family warmth.
★★★★½
The Untamed is a 50-episode Chinese xianxia epic about two young cultivators bound by loyalty across death, a lavish fantasy whose central bond won a global fandom.
★★★★☆
The Vampire Lestat turns Anne Rice's brat prince into a rock star with a confession to make, an audacious gothic series built around Sam Reid's commanding lead.
★★★★½
The White Lotus is Mike White's HBO anthology of holidays gone wrong, a cruel, funny class satire that opens each season with a death and then dissects the guests.
★★★★★
The Wire is David Simon's five-season HBO drama that turns a Baltimore drug case into a portrait of a whole city, and it remains TV's most ambitious crime saga.
★★★★☆
The Witcher is Netflix's dark fantasy saga about Geralt of Rivia, a mutant monster hunter bound to a sorceress and a lost princess: lavish, uneven and gripping.
★★★★☆
Three-Body is Tencent's 30-episode adaptation of Liu Cixin's science fiction novel, a faithful, atmospheric mystery that rewards patience with intellectual chills.
★★★★☆
Time is Jimmy McGovern's BBC prison anthology, two short, harrowing seasons about guilt and survival behind bars, powered by outstanding performances throughout.
★★★★½
Top Boy is Ronan Bennett's raw, gripping drama about drug dealers on an east London estate, eight tense episodes that treat everyone, dealer or child, as a person.
★★★½☆
Trese is Netflix's animated take on the Filipino komiks about occult detective Alexandra Trese, a striking folklore noir whose six episodes feel thinly plotted.
★★★★☆
True Beauty is a 16-episode K-drama about a bullied teen who reinvents herself with makeup, a charming, prettily cast high school romance that skims its big themes.