PrimeWire

Wheels within wheels, and you can’t trust your own side. Usually an interesting premise but here the plotting between various parties and infighting in the team just mangles the narrative and confuses the story. By the end of the season it’s still not clear which side will win, or what the mess in episode 1 was supposed to achieve. Too much grey to sort out the machinations and apply motivations. Dissatisfying.

The protagonist can’t get above the fray and so becomes a victim rather than a hero. The series differs from the book to a large degree through differing plot devices and red herrings.

If the Checquy is a typical example of British Intelligence, God help us all from the dysfunction.