> and I thought "the night manager" was terribly adapted
Can you expand on this? As someone who loved the series and the book it'd be interesting to hear a different viewpoint.
Can you expand on this? As someone who loved the series and the book it'd be interesting to hear a different viewpoint.
Trouble was it took a subtle suspenseful novel and turned it into a formulaic and predictable US TV series. It was uninspiring TV wallpaper but in fancy locations. Quality source and cast let down by horrible direction and story adaptation. The best I can say is it wasn't terrible. Nor was it a patch on the old or new BBC adaptations of Tinker Tailor.
I grant that it far from le Carré's best novel, but it was a damn sight better than this!
The only reason you can read it without it seeming Bondish is that Le Carre manages to make all that strangely bland, if not outright dull.
The TV adaptation could have made it feel more le Carre, by adding more depth to the supporting characters, and more of the tradecraft and blurred grey areas.
Ian Flemming's older brother Peter worked with with people like Colin Gubbins who was head of the SOE for most of the war.
The Serialization just bigged it up too much.