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Positive:
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Critic Reviews
RogerEbert.comApr 19, 2016
Season 1 Review:
Nearly everything about The Night Manager works, from the high-powered cast to the gorgeous locales. And it’s thematically dense as well, as le Carré and Bier examine the games people play with each other to get what they need, and how far we’re willing to go to deceive for the greater good.
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Apr 18, 2016ColliderApr 15, 2016
Season 1 Review:
The Night Manager has something for everyone--fans of spy craft, fans of cinematic television, fans of good storytelling or just of Tom Hiddleston (or Hugh Laurie, for that matter). It will pull you into its story completely and allow you inhabit its world, but at a terrible cost: brevity.
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RogerEbert.comJan 12, 2026
Season 2 Review:
Season two of “The Night Manager” proves itself once again to be a diamond in the rough, at times allowing the espionage to take a backseat to a thrilling and alarmingly tender relationship between three very different people. Hiddleston and Calva are a match made in heaven.
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Apr 18, 2016
Season 1 Review:
The Night Manager overcomes cliches, objections and a few wobbly American accents, in large part thanks to the combined appeal and talents of Hiddleston, Colman, Laurie and Hollander. Together, they prove that action TV can be made at a high level of quality, and quality TV can be entertaining.
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IndieWireApr 19, 2016
Jan 12, 2026
Season 2 Review:
Everything in the season gets better in the second half — especially Calva, who initially comes across as a hunky-but-wan Roper substitute but eventually turns that apparent failing into the arc of a comprehensibly vulnerable performance. From the cast, only the wasting of Colman and Varma feels irritating.
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Jan 12, 2026
Season 2 Review:
It moves at a faster clip, and it never lets Teddy lull Jonathan and the audience into a treacherous sense of safety quite like Roper did. But perhaps most crucially to its mission and the audience’s enjoyment, it lives with the unsettling reality that the past is never dead.
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Jan 9, 2026
Season 2 Review:
The unbalanced season mostly compensates, in the final accounting, for the time it wastes up front. Watch the first half while you’re folding laundry or cooking dinner or trading texts with a devastatingly attractive person who will prove to be either your savior or your ruin. After that, though? Put your phone away.
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The TelegraphJan 2, 2026
Radio TimesJan 1, 2026
Season 2 Review:
Points of greater divergence may present themselves down the line – we've still four hours to go – but even if this season winds up being a tribute act for the first, at least its homaging quality material. After such a long absence, fans will hardly be sorry to watch The Night Manager again.
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The Daily BeastApr 20, 2016
Season 1 Review:
We’ve seen this all before. The good guy’s descent into darkness, the cat-and-mouse thriller, the escapist action series, the on-location porn. Does The Night Manager do it any better than we’re used to? Sure, quite often. But at least it almost never does it any worse.
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Apr 19, 2016
Season 1 Review:
Unapologetically sleeker and more sentimental than any George Smiley tale, and streamlined to the point of simplicity when compared with the recent "London Spy," it is tense but linear, clearly framed to take full advantage of its stars' strengths and, it must be said, their cross-demographic fan base.
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Apr 18, 2016
Season 1 Review:
The Night Manager is slick, but can occasionally veer into hollowness. ... This lush miniseries nevertheless has much to recommend it. Tom Hollander, David Harewood and Douglas Hodge capably round out the fine cast, and as it heads into the middle of its run, it weaves together a generally exciting cat-and-mouse tale, full of skulduggery in elegant homes, classy restaurants and shady ports.
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TV Guide MagazineApr 14, 2016
Season 1 Review:
The Night Manager has been adapted and updated into a thrillingly suspenseful Mission: Impossible playing out on a grand international canvas. [18 Apr-1 May 2016, p.18]
The Travers TakeJan 23, 2026
Apr 19, 2016
Season 1 Review:
[The Night Manager] makes the most of some gorgeous spots. Viewers, however, may find themselves anticipating the plot. Hiddleston is the draw and the catch. With a less capable lead, this story would only be mildly interesting. ... He proves here he’s ready to serve her majesty’s secret service and then some.
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Apr 18, 2016
Season 1 Review:
Hollander more than succeeds in making Corkoran completely repulsive, despite the fact that the character is unwaveringly loyal and smart enough to realize Pine isn’t who he seems to be. That said, the role is offensively homophobic. ... Otherwise, The Night Manager is a class act, not only because of the care that has gone into the writing, direction and performances, but in the great respect the creators show to the quality of le Carré’s novel.
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Jan 12, 2026
Season 2 Review:
If you’re going to wait a decade to create a second season of a show, it’s got to do two things: It’s got to remind people who watched the first season what the connections back to that season are, and it’s got to tell a new story that’s just as compelling as the first season was. The second season of The Night Manager definitely accomplishes the first, but hasn’t yet proven that it’ll accomplish the second.
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Apr 19, 2016
Season 1 Review:
Any show that refers to the bad guy as “the worst man in the world” may not be terribly subtle, but the brisk pacing and Hiddleston’s regular displays of sly spy trickery and vigorous punches to the soft guts of decadent baddies will really get a viewer’s pulse quickening.
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Apr 15, 2016
Season 1 Review:
The Night Manager is a treat. ... For all its locations, the storytelling canvas is somehow small. And there are some ludicrous plot holes and twists which nudge the The Night Manager in a campy Bond direction. But it never strays near comedy, which makes the six episodes pretty much a nonstop fear-fest.
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The TimesJan 2, 2026
Apr 19, 2016
Season 1 Review:
While it's a well-produced and entertaining series, it's disappointing to see writers and filmmakers heading back to the well to rehash lesser John le Carré works when current spy novelists like Olen Steinhauer, Charles Cumming, and Chris Pavone have modern novels that could easily be adapted--and likely with superior results.
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