Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie and Olivia Colman anchored AMC's 2016 miniseries adaptation of the John le Carré novel in which a hotel manager is pulled into international espionage and undercover work after he helps a guest involved in the weapons trade.

Full Review | Nov 10, 2021

Jonathan Pine doesn't shoot bad guys, and the one fistfight he gets into with multiple people, he loses badly. Instead, Pine is the most charming, intelligent, seductive spy on television.

Full Review | Nov 26, 2019

With Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie heading a perfect cast and Oscar-winning director Susanne Bier calling the shots, this adaptation-and-update of the John le Carré thriller is a ripper.

Full Review | Jun 20, 2019

Such fear, such dread, and such a dazzling script.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 31, 2017

An elegant but ultimately empty John le Carr adaptation, starring Hugh Laurie.

Full Review | May 23, 2016

From the undulating shapes and symbols in the opening credits to Hiddleston's enigmatic, slightly perturbing performance as the show's hero, the entire product feels like nothing so much as the world's most elaborate audition tape for 007.

Full Review | May 20, 2016

Bier's direction, along with the acting and script, is what makes the production shine.

Full Review | Apr 27, 2016

This bottomless inner life is mostly absent from this version of Pine, but Hiddleston sure keeps the show humming along, scarcely giving us a chance to notice.

Full Review | Apr 24, 2016

Get ready for a tantalizing game of cat and mouse.

Full Review | Apr 21, 2016

All the permutations of its plot, however grisly and threatening, never dominate the show in the way they are meant to.

Full Review | Apr 20, 2016

The Night Manager is so much more than a story built on spy craft, though, as it seamlessly weaves in fantastic bits of character backgrounds, and takes the time to really explore Roper's gilded world built upon a mound of bones.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 20, 2016

The series is well-made and well-acted throughout, and if it's rarely thrilling, it's also rarely dull.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Apr 19, 2016

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.

Full Review | Apr 19, 2016

The Night Manager is very, very old-school, and that is a great part of its considerable charm and fabulously engaging narrative.

Full Review | Apr 19, 2016

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 Carr's novel.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 19, 2016

The Night Manager was Mr. le Carr's first post-Cold War novel... Two decades later, the replacements he found already feel quaint, and the same can be said of this glossy, generic adaptation.

Full Review | Apr 19, 2016

It's so much fun watching the supporting cast that coherence almost seems besides the point.

Full Review | Apr 19, 2016

Each weekly episode of The Night Manager will feel too short. But the pleasure is so great that we should probably thank AMC for letting it stretch out over six weeks.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 19, 2016

There's no denying the excitement of the end product, which pulls viewers along on a strong current of suspense, glamour, and macho regret, and gives us two lead performances worth savoring.

Full Review | Apr 19, 2016

The production and performances really do deserve such adulation, but the miniseries itself feels like a rather by-the-book spy story - which, notably, it is; an acknowledgment that means even more when you consider the author of said book is [Carre].

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Apr 19, 2016