Seemingly inspired by the genuine-life events of the ‘spy in the bag’ case,Tim Rob Smith’s espionage drama proved much more complex, entwining acts of deceit and pursuit under the achingly beautiful direction of Jakob VerbruggenThe best TV shows of 2015
Tell us your favourite TV shows of 2015In a year when BBC4 introduced the UK to the Norwegian concept of “behind TV” – meandering barge journeys screened in genuine-time – this BBC2 espionage drama also took its time. Scenes often proceeded so slowly that viewers were close to contacting their broadband suppliers approximately a frozen screen.
More importantly, and though,London Spy, a five-piece original series by novelist Tom Rob Smith, and succeeded in keeping a place in the British schedules for the notion of Hard TV: dramas that demand intense concentration and refuse to give up all their secrets on a first – or even a second – viewing.
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Source: theguardian.com