I REVIEWED THE FIRST season quite a few years ago. They brought it back! Many of the same rugged characters in a good cast. While the new season imagines a sequel that allows for lost time, they fiddled with fidelity to the book as I remember it.

Violent, globe skipping, and full of the same ruthlessness, the early episodes of Season Two (perhaps because they more closely mirror present conflicts) take us back to Latin America and arms trading, power-seeking, and traitorous elements in MI6.

Tom Hiddleston returns as the former hotelier-turned-spy, identities swapped-out like suits and ties.  Olivia Coleman is still around as “Jonathon’s former hander.  It’s early and, in keeping with most of the content for streaming these days, demands that you suspend your disbelief. Yet that is what we want sometimes. Does Hugh Lorrie return from the dead as Roper?  Tune in and time will tell.

 

WRH