Prime Video's Night Manager Is a Perfect One-Day Thriller

The Night Manager remains one of the smartest spy thrillers on streaming and can easily be watched in a single day. The series first aired in 2016; both seasons now stream on Prime Video, and Season 3 is already in development. When Season 2 arrived nearly a decade later it drew 8.7 million views in its first 28 days and became one of the BBC’s biggest launches in years.

Jonathan Pine, a former British intelligence operative, goes deep undercover to expose an international arms dealer. The show focuses less on gadgets and more on what happens to a person who spends too long pretending to be someone else. Tom Hiddleston’s measured performance earned him a Golden Globe for the first season; his work in Season 2 finds Pine nine years older, wearier, and carrying the consequences of his past.

Olivia Colman brings humanity as intelligence officer Angela Burr, while Hugh Laurie is chilling as Richard Roper, an arms dealer whose charm masks cruelty.

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