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Black Doves: Netflix Miniseries starring Keira Knightley and Ben Wishaw in the leading roles, set in London. She‘s an undercover spy who has spent the last decade as the wife of a rising Tory politician, he‘s a freelance gay assassin (used to have a steady employer), they‘re bff from her early spy days, and things go pear shaped for both of them in the week before Christmas. There are various dastardly organisations involved, and if there‘s a vibe I‘d say early Alias (the tv show, not the comic) without the Rambaldi stuff as our antiheroes go through various suspensefully executed spyfare set pieces, there‘s of course a shady older handler, Mrs. Reeds (though she owes more to Margo Martindale as Claudia in The Americans‘s first season, actually), and the emotional heart of the piece is their passionate loyalty to each other as they come through for each other in crisis after crisis. In the meantime, our antiheroine while trying to maintain her cover (and the family gained therein) also has a fridged-in-the-pilot (male) lover to avenge (shades of Sydney from Alias, as I said) while our antihero can‘t resist reconnecting to the boyfriend he had to leave after said boyfriend discovered what he does for a living, and also there are a couple of very entertaining female assassins who at various points of the plot are foes and allies.
It‘s very enjoyable if you like spy stuff, and Keira Knightley and Ben Wishaw, all of which I do; I think I may have found a new Christmas story to enjoy rewatching in future years.
Skeleton Crew, episodes 1 - 3 (so far): aka a new Star Wars show on Disney + that started three weeks ago and which I had no real urge to watch until hearing good noises. Squarely aimed at children and incredibly charming. I watched with captions on, so when in the very first scene said captions identified a character leading a bunch of pirates as „Silvo“ and a scene later we got introduced to a boy called „Wim“, I thought, hang on, is this a Treasure Island/Star Wars crossover? And the answer so far is… kinda, kinda not?
( Slightly spoilery from here )
In conclusion, I‘m greatly enjoying this, and would like to thank whichever wage slave or freelancer pitched to the Mouse that the world needed not just any but the pirate story in the Star Wars universe.
It‘s very enjoyable if you like spy stuff, and Keira Knightley and Ben Wishaw, all of which I do; I think I may have found a new Christmas story to enjoy rewatching in future years.
Skeleton Crew, episodes 1 - 3 (so far): aka a new Star Wars show on Disney + that started three weeks ago and which I had no real urge to watch until hearing good noises. Squarely aimed at children and incredibly charming. I watched with captions on, so when in the very first scene said captions identified a character leading a bunch of pirates as „Silvo“ and a scene later we got introduced to a boy called „Wim“, I thought, hang on, is this a Treasure Island/Star Wars crossover? And the answer so far is… kinda, kinda not?
( Slightly spoilery from here )
In conclusion, I‘m greatly enjoying this, and would like to thank whichever wage slave or freelancer pitched to the Mouse that the world needed not just any but the pirate story in the Star Wars universe.
