PBS is featuring the excellent British spy drama Page Eight on this week’s Masterpiece Contemporary. It’s top rate.
How do the British do this so well? First, they cut out all of the explosions and chase scenes. Then they get a high-brow screenwriter – here it is David Hare (The Reader, The Hours, Damage) – to write a character driven whodunit with plenty of paranoid political intrigue. Finally, they deliver a first rate cast: Bill Nighy, Michael Gambon, Rachel Weisz, Judy Davis, Ralph Fiennes, Ewen Bremner (Spud in Trainspotting) and Felicity Jones (starring in this week’s Like Crazy).
Page Eight is definitely worth a Tivo. Look for it.
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