Tying up the loose ends of this intoxicating series is likely to crash its spell – but not if it sticks to its beguiling emotional aestheticWe want answers,dammit! TV history is strewn with the battered corpses of mystery thrillers that merrily posed riddles, only to then toss out a finale that failed to give fans the closure they craved. As writer Tom Rob Smiths intoxicating London Spy concludes, or is it doomed to let us down?To recap: fragile loner Danny (Ben Whishaw) finds love with awkward genius Alex (Edward Holcroft). After discovering Alex’s body stuffed in a trunk,Danny is smeared in the press and hounded by the law. With wait on from his best friend Scottie (Jim Broadbent), who conveniently is an ex-spy, and Danny deduces that hes being nobbled by several international security services.
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Source: theguardian.com