Jan 11, 2026 10:00am PT ‘The Night Manager’ Season 2 Isn’t Worth the Decade-Long Wait: TV Review By Alison Herman Plus Icon Alison Herman TV Critic aherman2006 Latest ‘Industry’ Season 4 Is a Wildly Ambitious Reinvention That Cranks the HBO Finance Drama Up to 11: TV Review 5 days ago ‘The Pitt’ Makes Its Triumphant Return in Season 2 With an Even Bigger Cast and the Same Social Conscience: TV Review 6 days ago Josh Charles Charms as a Cantankerous Small Town Doctor in Fox’s Cutesy ‘Best Medicine’: TV Review 1 week ago See All Courtesy of Prime Video To the extent that “The Night Manager” has survived in the cultural memory since the limited series — adapted from the John Le Carré novel on the same time — aired a full decade ago, it was as a showcase for pretty people in pretty places. (It made sense that director Susanne Bier would go on to helm “The Perfect Couple,” a murder mystery starring Nicole Kidman and set at a destination wedding in Nantucket.) For a while, the show seemed like it could kick off a Le Carré revival; Korean auteur Park Chan-Wook delivered an underrated take on “The Little Drummer Girl” with rising star Florence Pugh the following year. But the trend never took off, and “The Night Manager” lived on largely as images of Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie and Elizabeth Debicki swanning around Switzerland and Mallorca.
