- Network: BBC America , BBC Two
- Series Premiere Date: Jan 21, 2016
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 53 Ratings
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Positive: 42 out of 53
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Mixed: 4 out of 53
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Negative: 7 out of 53
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London SpyYour Score0 out of 10User ScoreGenerally favorable reviews- based on 53 Ratings
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Jan 21, 2016This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Muscular writing and powerful performances.... You can get sucked in by the spycraft, but this is also a parable about queerness, and a fascinating character piece for Whishaw.
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Five episodes might sound like a perfect, lithe treatment for such a tale, but the truth is it really only needed two or three. London Spy should have been a movie. To be fair, the storytelling does pay off frequently enough that I don’t regret having sat through the whole thing. Those strong character relationships feel all the more real because of the amount of time spent with them. And the drip-drop pacing allows for some exquisitely terrifying climaxes.
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Creator Tom Rob Smith's story may eventually seem far-fetched (or so I choose to hope), but Whishaw's performance as an emotional drifter who finds a focus only when it might be too late is too good to miss.