The Little Drummer Girl - BBC 2018

[not-bono-ever]

the cars are literally the high point for me in this- the W123 Merc she was suppsoed to have driven from Athens to Austria would have been a fantastic run along the adriatic at the time

I hitched that route in the 90s when i was a kid with a penchant for danger- took a week but was wonderful

 

[Griff]

the cars are literally the high point for me in this- the W123 Merc she was suppsoed to have driven from Athens to Austria would have been a fantastic run along the adriatic at the time

The glorious brown Granada and '77 XJ6 this week were great.

My wife is loving the dresses and lampshades.

 

[Reno]

Director Park Chan-wook (Oldboy) is an unsual choice for this. I haven't watched it yet, but I'm curious to see how they've mocked up my former council estate to look like the Olympic Village in Munich (my home town).

 

[Spymaster]

Director Park Chan-wook (Oldboy) is an unsual choice for this. I haven't watched it yet, but I'm curious to see how they've mocked up my former council estate to look like the Olympic Village in Munich (my home town).

You used to live around the corner from me.

Anyone who knows Rowley will recognise it immediately but for those who don't there's enough similarity (ish) to just about pull it off. There are inside shots that very obviously can't have been filmed at Rowley Way but it's not a bad substitute given that the vast majority of the audience will be familiar with neither that nor the Munich village.

 

[belboid]

I'm still quite enjoying it. It looks great, Pugh and Shannon are highly watchable (even if their characters are highly annoying). It is a bit odd that for something so slowly paced it's largest failings have been with the couple of bits which have happened too quickly (Charlies conversion - although it is apparent that she was always a bit shallow and vapid - and the whole training thing with daft Comrade Abdul). The plotting isn't even particularly ridiculous, all this kind of shit did happen in the seventies.

 

[The Fornicator]

They have some made appreciative use of Bevin Court (Gardi's London pad), which is always nice to see : Bevin Court - Wikipedia

 

[Sprocket.]

I remember reading something about John Le Carre attending the premiere of Little Drummer Girl and saying, (I’m paraphrasing here) that viewers would not get the whizz, pow, bang that they saw in The Night Manager.
Also he thought his earlier work, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, would make an excellent six hour rollercoaster ride.
He said viewers fell in love with night manager’s Roper but viewers would just be glad they weren’t Charlie, who he based on his sister the actor Charlotte Cornwell of Rock Follies fame.
I will try and find the text I read.

 

[Spymaster]

This was fucking crap. Lame as fuck. Not intriguing, not even interesting, with Grand Canyon sized plot holes. Total waste of time but at least the terrorists all get mullered.

 

[spanglechick]

I quite liked it. I found it a lot more engaging, less annoying and less shallow than the Night Manager. And it was a beautiful showcase of modernist design.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Deeply unsatisfying and too many questions that were raised but never answered- maybe the book deals with these better. I had no sympathy or engagement for anyone in it eventually.

 

[editor]

Daft, wildly improbable, but still entertaining enough

 

[Idris2002]

Finally caught up with this one - very well done.

I got the impression from the book that JLC was trying to keep a double set of books, to be for both Israel and Palestine. It's all in the trick of the wrist.

 

[Idris2002]

So I said to Mrs Idris after we watched the second episode, that part of the intended audience is young wans who dream of a Heathcliff-esque boyfriend to whom they can play Bond girl.

Having lit the blue touch-paper, I then moved out of arm's reach, but she said "no, that's fair".

 

[Idris2002]

On to episode three now. Couldn't help thinking of Abu Ghraib this time. It may be set in the late 70s, but it's very much a post-Iraq war series, this one.