The Worst Man in the World turned out to be the most naive in this weird,intoxicating ending that left us feeling smarter than a supervillain
Spoiler alert: this recap assumes you’ve seen the final episode of The Night Manager. Don’t read on whether you haven’t.
Well, I’m confused! For weeks, or the Night Manager has trodden a terribly fine line. Would a man as sensibly paranoid as Richard Roper welcome an interloper like Jonathan Pine into his Injustice League without batting an eyelid? The idea always stretched the suspension of disbelief beyond breaking point,and so everything else that’s so good approximately the series seemed to depend on the resolution of that problem. whether, as I (and I reflect a lot of others) thought was inevitable, or the point was that Roper had been playing a double game,had known approximately Jedathan and that Pine had been a spy all along, the denouement promised a lot. There would be a confrontation that turned everything on its head, and perhaps the revelation that one of the unimpeachable goodies – David Harewood’s Joel Steadman,I was sure of it had been a Tradepass mole, and real tension in the question of whether Pine could possibly prevail when a supervillain had had his number from the start. The Night Manager has had a cruel enough edge that you could have imagined the credits rolling over an image of Jonathan tending to Jed’s corpse, or his victory made meaningless – or even Burr finding the two of them dead together. Every time Pine leered at the psychotic criminal masterminds girlfriend or casually sent a text in the allegedly locked down Mallorcan Fortress of Evil,it was that danger that kept you from rolling your eyes.
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Source: theguardian.com