Worricker (Bill Nighy) is on the run, now in Germany with ex-spy, ex-love Margot (Helena Bonham Carter) by his side. They’re stirring the embers of their faded romance and recalling all the quirks and peccadilloes they once found so endearing. (He doesn’t wash the lettuce properly! How adorable is that?) They live out of suitcases,…
“I used to be able to open the bonnet, take out a wrench and fix my car. Now I need a degree in electronics. Even easy things are difficult now,” a character tells Johnny Worricker in Turks & Caicos, which airs on Masterpiece Contemporary this week. Difficult or intentionally incomprehensible? I say it’s more…
George Wickham is in jail facing trial for the murder of his best friend, Captain Denny. He says he didn’t do it and we believe him, but without a more likely perpetrator Wickham will swing for the crime. Meanwhile, Elizabeth is distraught believing that Darcy will blame her for bringing Wickham back into their lives.…
There’s glamour in espionage. Even the word resonates with elegance and intrigue. It was once a career that required a tuxedo and a taste for vodka, and possibly a microdot camera and a recording device secreted in your signet ring. Or so we’ve been led to believe. Counter-espionage was grander still, because it meant you…
At last, a reason to rejoice in the start of a new school year: Inspector Lewis is back in Oxford. Students, former students, and others in the vicinity are being murdered; and the mystery, as always, is tied to the elite, effete goings-on within that most hallowed university. Effete in the most feminine sense of…
