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Page Eight: Season 1
  • Network: PBS , BBC Two
  • Series Premiere Date: Nov 6, 2011
  • Season #: 1
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  • Summary: MI5 agent Johnny Worricker (Bill Nighy) is left with a secret file that could bring down the government when his boss (Michael Gambon) suddenly dies. He also grows suspicious of his beautiful, young neighbor (Rachel Weisz) who seeks his company.
  • Genre(s): Action/Adventure, Drama, Movie/Mini-Series

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: Nancy DeWolf Smith
    Nov 4, 2011
    90
    [Bill Nighy] is the riveting, breath-stealing, can't-take-your-eyes-off-him center of drama where every actor and every moment is like that, too.
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ken Tucker
    Nov 4, 2011
    83
    If you can get past the notion of Nighy being irresistible to every woman he encounters (I almost did), you'll get caught up in the carefully modulated intrigue.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Alessandra Stanley
    Nov 4, 2011
    60
    It's the right cast in the right setting but with a wrongfully righteous script.

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  1. ClariseSamuels
    5
    I was looking forward to seeing this movie mostly because Bill Nighy has charmed me since I saw him in "The Boat that Rocked," and Rachel Weisz is a curiosity piece now that she's Mrs. James Bond (which is how she's billed on a recent cover of Chatelaine). The movie should have been a perfect selection for Masterpiece Contemporary, but it was mostly talking heads, although the heads that talked were some of the best in British film and theater. Instead of highly stylized art, it was a morass of muddled conversations about art, high government corruption, father-daughter relationships, and more high government corruption. Fortunately, Bill Nighy is so elegant and understated, he can fascinate you even if he's reciting a list, and Ralph Fiennes is also a master of subtlety, absolutely necessary for a film that is trying to be so subtle that if you blink, you'll miss major exchanges of suppressed emotional fury. Everyone else just did their job as well as they could under the circumstances. Weisz was miscast—darkening her hair does not give her the Arabic mystique that she lacks. The minor actress in the role of a journalist looked more Arabic than Weisz. A talented unknown would have been a better choice. Weisz is too famous for this supporting role. In an interview, Weisz said part of the point was to get to work together with Nighy on a project, a dream come true, because she was once a devoted fan of Nighy when she was a young actress—a "proper fan" who pounded on his dressing-room door after a performance. Maybe by the time filming started, she was already engaged to James Bond, because she didn't seem that enthusiastic to be working with her hero. She said the kiss she shares with Nighy onscreen was only a "spiritual kiss," but given she wanted him to take her with him, and they keep kissing until the camera switches to him leaving her after an undetermined length of time, it was clearly supposed to be romantic, as unconvincing as it was.… Expand
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