The Night Manager Season 2 slows early but rewards patience after Episode 3

Time reports that Prime Video and the BBC have produced a belated Season 2 of The Night Manager, with Tom Hiddleston returning as Jonathan Pine and a new director, Georgi Banks-Davies, replacing Susanne Bier.

The sequel opens with a short sequence in Syria identifying the body of Richard Roper and then jumps to present-day London, where Pine works a desk job running an MI6 surveillance unit called the Night Owls before a routine operation sends him to Medellín. New characters include Teddy Dos Santos, a Colombian mogul played by Diego Calva, and Roxana Bolaños, a femme fatale played by Camila Morrone; many of the standout actors from Season 1 are either absent or relegated to smaller roles, and the season shifts its focus from illegal weapons dealing in the Middle East to interventions in Latin America.

The review notes a prolonged slow first half that only coalesces after a revelation at the end of Episode 3, after which Teddy and Roxana gain depth, Angela Burr becomes more active, and the show’s plotting tightens; Amazon’s release plan mirrors that pacing, with the first three episodes arriving on Jan. 11 and the final three released one per subsequent Sunday.

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Culture, Tom Hiddleston, Georgi Banks-davies, Diego Calva, Camila Morrone, Medellín