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‘Treason’: Netflix’s Paranoid Christmas Gift



For those of us who can’t get enough stories about double agents, secret codes, and backstabbing of all kinds, betrayal It is the best gift that Netflix can give on these dates. In another example of countless good Thriller British, Charlie Cox (Back on the platform after reckless(plays Adam Lawrence, a British intelligence agent whose world is turned upside down when his boss)Ciaranalways annoying) suffers an assassination attempt and has to make the transition from Deputy Chief to Head of MI6.

The person responsible for the precision attack is Kara (Olga Kurylenko), (ex) an agent of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service who shares our hero’s past and has come to collect debts that Lawrence didn’t even know he had. With her new mandate, her ex-lover will be able to give her the necessary files to find out how and why five people close to her died in Baku (the capital of Azerbaijan) fifteen years ago.

The third vertex of the triangle is material (Una Chaplin), Lawrence’s second wife and former army captain, is a curious woman who is matched only by her compassion. She feels that her husband’s children are truly hers, Ella (Bo Gadsdon) and Callum (Samuel Leakey), who accepted the demands of their father’s new position with varying levels of enthusiasm; Only the boy finds it interesting to walk around with an armed escort.

Many other people revolve around these characters, as well as many institutions, but it would be a real betrayal to reveal other details of an ever-changing plot. We will suffice to say that, as in all good spy stories, neither the characters nor the viewers should trust anyone or anything. Maybe not even in yourself.

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Spielberg screenwriter

betrayal It is creation and production Matt Charman, Oscar-nominated (with the Coen brothers) playwright for Best Original Screenplay for Spies Bridgeby Steven SpielbergThis relaxed approach to the history of James B. Donovan (Tom Hanks), the insurance attorney who negotiated the release of CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers in exchange for Rudolph Abel (rylance tag), a Soviet spy who had defended him in court.

As in, shadow Lou Curry His brain teasers are long, but Sharman wanted, as he explained to the media, “to also approach the way Americans usually approach this subject.” This means that the brain is joined by the muscular and emotional aspects of the epic Bourne. Above all emotional: Much of the series takes place behind closed doors, in the privacy of a family riven by great threats, wrapped in a sickly paranoid climate.

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Some of the plot twists may be a little implausible, but the main cast manages to anchor a heightened illusion of emotional truth. That Charlie Cox is not a huge star is a complete mystery. We already knew about Kurylenko his ability in action and drama: his career spans from How much consolationfollower bond seriesto the epitaph of a romantic writer (Terrence Malik) How do to the wonderland.

in his collection of Thriller spy with family drama, betrayal He could return to such a cult series Nick name Above all, The Americans: Personality hopelessly mixed with professional secret or more disturbing. During the first two episodes, one could also consider a somewhat less urgent (but not much less) version of the first season of 24. Without reaching the status of those classics, it is presented as an option to really consider bathing these days in some flowery angst. Interest in the work of the director Louise Hopper (the magician or end Sandman), capable of hypnosis with london night a la michael mann or streak shot.

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