The Night Manager

The Night Manager

Dan: Well, I joke, I just told Did we catch that? No. Oh.

Sidey: Shame

Reegs: always. Just before the mic's on, you've

Dan: I know. Yeah,

Reegs: absolutely

Pete: when you're at your

Dan: that's that's surely

Pete: and most entertaining and least boring. But anyway, carry on.

Dan: Thanks

Sidey: Speaking of boring.

walking, football update.

Dan: Wow.

Sidey: It's been a while since we've had one. 'cause we haven't had game.

Dan: No. Game. Yeah. We, what would the holiday We should be reviewing Atonement.

Sidey: Yeah.

Well that's next week.

Dan: Okay. We, we lost,

Sidey: Invincibles tag has gone.

Dan: It's gone.

We were un beaten all through last year, season. Yeah. Ish. Pretty much all last year was we. It would've been most of it.

Sidey: No, no, it wouldn't have been. But this season we were we had a tough game against a title rival.

Dan: Yeah.

Pete: Oh, last season champions

Sidey: Yeah. Every season. They've won it every year.

Pete: Are I didn't

Dan: since records began,

Pete: when was that? Two years ago?

Dan: Yeah.

think

Sidey: been going four or five years anyway. Yeah, I [00:01:00] didn't get to plan it boys, unfortunately. I was. Had an off day That was bad.

Dan: We all had an off day.

Reegs: What is

Pete: you and Michael Jackson

Sidey: Yeah.

Reegs: You've gotta play them again, haven't you?

Dan: Yeah, I

Pete: riggs.

Yeah. We gotta play them When, when I say on our home turf, I mean on exactly the same pitch that we played. 'cause every, it's

Sidey: What's happened though is they are fucking off to the algar for some sort of Whoopi do competition in the middle of the league season, which means that the fixture we have against them has been rearranged. So like 2029 or

Dan: August, August 29.

Sidey: league decided. I mean it actually could be. It could be a final.

Dan: Yeah.

Reegs: My God, I can't imagine people aren't interested in the minutia

Sidey: that's the only reason people listen. Did you see that one day last week? Something? We had some mad download

though. Yeah.

Dan: And this is quite a fruity wine, as you pointed out there.

Pete: It, it is. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Sidey: Epstein.

Dan: So, links nicely into the, the film that we were not reviewing because it's not a film, it's a, it's a series.

Sidey: We've gone for a [00:02:00] TV series.

Dan: you've gone through a TV series.

I've been watching the night manager and I've watched this before, but the second season's taken so long to come out that I re-watched it recently and, and kind of binged it quite quickly, and I was so pleased I did because I remember the first time round.

As it started getting to, there's only six episodes as it started to get to episode five and six. I was like, fuck. It's just, you know, when you just get too nervous to watch it and you're like, oh my God,

Pete: wasn't that gripping.

Dan: was gripping. And I didn't actually watch the whole series because

Janna,

the Mrs went ahead and watched it, and I was

Sidey: Oh, unbelievable.

Dan: I will, I will just save it.

Sidey: That's grounds for divorce.

Dan: Only

Pete: you were

Dan: only, only for about 18 months or so.

Sidey: Big. You always watch, you always watch series with the misses.

Pretty. If you went ahead, if you went like episodes ahead, that would be like a, that

Reegs: that is not acceptable.

Dan: I can't do that to somebody.

I just,

Pete: [00:03:00] do, you know, I, what I used to do during Game of Thrones at, at its like peak when it was at, its like absolute best, you know, in like John Snow, we kind of all knew he's coming back and stuff like that.

I'd get up at like four in the morning or whatever to watch it when it like literally landed on HBO, watch it then, then go back to bed. And then it would record, and then I would watch it that evening with the misses as well. So I'd always watch it ahead, but I'd never give anything away. She knew that I wasn't sneaking out of bed and I was cheating on her the whole time as well.

Dan: Yeah, it was, a thing then that I'd left to marinate over this 18 months until they bought out a second series and

Sidey: know they were doing a second

Dan: that, that it's out there.

Sidey: I

Reegs: It's hiddleston.

Sidey: I know that it is there now.

Pete: Well, gi give us a flavor of the first series, Dan. I like the fact that something was so gripping that you couldn't watch it

Sidey: Huge lorries in it

Pete: is

Dan: huge lorries in it. Okay. He's a Richard Roper, the worst man in the world, and basically.

Pete: an official title [00:04:00] or

right,

Dan: Huddleston plays a guy called Pine.

Yeah,

He, he's, he's, he used to play at what number eight for Spurs? Hiddleston.

Hiddleston.

Sidey: Lo.

Pete: so he's got a bit of a stellar car to this.

Dan: Yeah. Hi Hiddleston, he's the night manager in a, a hotel in Egypt, a top kind of hotel and he fixes and sorts things. And a lady comes to him one time and she's the mistress of a man that is involved in the Arab Spring. But on the bad and. She has sneaked some papers

Sidey: It's just point of view, Dan, you know?

Dan: Yeah. Well

Reegs: the Jedi are evil

Dan: she, she,

Pete: from a certain point of view.

Dan: You're right. He was a good guy. But

She's

Reegs: she tried to run him

Dan: trying and giving him to, to Pine, which is Huddleston Hiddleston, Tom Huddleston. And because she's seen him boating out with somebody she [00:05:00] recognized from the British Embassy and she'd asked her, how do you know him? Like, so she's got the credentials and said, you know, if anything was to happen to me.

Could you make sure that these papers find their way? And he's ex-army and he looks at these and it just sees its arms, it's loads of So he goes, right. There's some legs in there as well and there's some other body parts, but it's mainly arms. And so she's, then he gives these papers, they fight, it gets back to her.

Gets back to the baddies that these papers have gone missing. And it goes to show how far these leaks are all around in the British government because she end up being killed and he feels guilty and so starts his kind of personal war against this guy and the guy that was buying and selling these guns.

And so it goes over the, the six series the six episodes. And he is [00:06:00] recruited by the British who's played by the wonderful Coleman, Olivia. Olivia, Harry.

Pete: Gary. Oh, okay.

Dan: Yeah. Olivia Coleman, she's in it. She's the one, she plays a lady called Angela Burr who's running agents and things, and she says, look, she really wants to.

To get this guy, and she says, do you know why I want to get him a little bit later on in the episodes? And she goes, I went to a a school sports day and there was, I know like 150 kids and they'd been napalmed and bombed and all this. She said Richard Roper was Richard Roper.

Reegs: score Sports stage where I've wanted that to happen. To be honest,

Pete: whoever pressed the button. I know how they feel. Yeah. So

Dan: So Richard Roper is, is the badie who's, who's played by huge lorry. He went to that as well. And the lady she's telling us and goes, what? He did it? And he goes, no. Rope saw business opportunity then, and then started [00:07:00] buying and selling those bonds and things so he could do more of it.

And she goes, that's why we want to nail him. And it's just gripping from start to finish. There's so many brilliant performances in it. He go, needs to go undercover. He, he has to get a whole new legend, a whole new kind of identity. He has to get on the inside of ropers.

And like

Sidey: like, sounds horny.

Dan: yeah, his, his kind of inner circle.

He has to get on the, in

Sidey: worse.

Yeah.

Dan: inner inner side. Inner side. And the, the characters that he's replacing kind of know they've got good instinct that there's something fishy about this guy. I don't

Reegs: there's a mole,

Dan: but because he. Part of the, the legend was that he ended up saving roper's little boy's life and taking a beating for it.

That nearly left him. It went all a bit fucking sc with, and he broke an arm of a guy who was just meant to do a little bit of damage. So they actually did fucking [00:08:00] leather the shit out of him, and that all helped him like. Be, be, have a little more credence. Like, look, you fucking, they've nearly killed this guy, but he did save my boy.

When they get him fit and fighting again. He's the one that starts being trusted with deals starts getting a little more involved with that inner circle. There's a girl involved, obviously.

Pete: Always is,

Dan: always is. She's really hot. They're all over him all the time. Every single girl, he just seems to attract everyone.

They all love him. And

Reegs: all bond

Dan: guy. Yeah, kind of like that. And, but there's so many just like sketchy moments. Like he's, he's gotta run into the office, he's gotta open a door when the alarm goes off and he's gotta get back out. People are wandering around and is he gonna be caught? Or you think, oh my fucking God is, it's just gonna be absolutely horrible if he gets caught here

Reegs: cliffhangers galore and all that. How many

Dan: So there's six episodes. It resolves itself in the first season, [00:09:00] but then follows, so the second season's just dropped and it's on B, B, C, the only two episodes into that and we've watched one.

Sidey: Right.

Pete: got questions. I've got questions. Daniel what sort of time, you know, where is the, when is the

Dan: So the Arab Spring, the Egypt, what's that in 2000 and, yeah, 11, 12, something like that kind of time. And so. Set around there, and then it jumps four years into the future. And then this l latest one is four years again. After that, there's so many fantastic characters. It goes right up into the, the British government and the on the river, you know, so the MI six and, and everything and how many leaks and how many people are taking money and bribes there.

And how they can't be touched because they're just too high up and sometimes you just gotta take the fish that you can actually get, you

Reegs: How many people are they paying because they tortured them?

Yeah,

Dan: is, it's really, really well put [00:10:00] together in one scene. The guy who he's replaced as roper's, right hand man, is really pissed off and he's getting drunk and everything, and they've, they've put a few kind of stories against him out there and roper's beginning to mistrust him.

And Hugh Laurie's fucking a giant in this. He's absolutely brilliant. The ranger of that act. Oh man. I mean, from Jeev and Worcester to this, you think?

Pete: Well, he was, yeah, he was. Yeah. Black had a

Sidey: Who wrote the source material?

Dan: So this is all based on John L's book, the Night Manager, and he features in one of the scenes.

So in one scene in the restaurant, Corky. Who's the, the right hand man? Of the the right hand man of the roper. He's being seen now and he's drinking too much and he starts like in this posh restaurant just throwing around and kicking off and everything. And Tim Hodson has to come over and and kind of [00:11:00] apologize to a guy on the table.

Who is John Le Carey?

So he is

Sidey: But you're a bit of a fanboy though, aren't you?

Dan: cameo. Yeah. I think he's, he's just,

well, he was the best British writer we've produced, certainly in that genre. Nobody can touch him. I mean, it's just absolutely fantastic. Tinker Taylor, soldier Spy, but this is right up there with some of his best work that's been adapted

Sidey: to Yeah, yeah.

Dan: to screen.

Although,

Pete: And he was like, based on our pod that we conduct, that he was by real life

Dan: Yeah. that's it. Well, he worked in MI six and had that and he was always quite kind of secretive to it. There's a documentary called the, the.

Pigeon Detective or something like that on Apple tv, A pigeon street,

Sidey: long

Dan: it. Long distance. Clara's in it and and la and he talks a little bit about that. I think the mystery helps him as well in the sense that you never quite knew what he. [00:12:00] He did, and people don't really talk about it, the fact that two of those writers have had inspiration from MI six, but inspiration is one thing actually going to put together the characters in the books.

But this is on BB, C at the moment,

Sidey: available to all. It's a

Reegs: isn't it, as well? It, it's

Dan: It's.

Reegs: a lot

Pete: I've never even heard of it, but it sounds

Sidey: I've heard people just wax lyrical about it over and over again, but I've never seen

Pete: well, it's like with that cast with like Tim Huddleston

Reegs: Huddleston,

Pete: Tel

Reegs: huge. Laurie, Gary Coleman and Gary Coleman. Yeah, it

Pete: it's, it's gonna be an

Dan: Lorry smash. Yeah. There's another couple of actors you would've seen in it then recognized from things that you really like as well.

Pete: More importantly, Daniel? I think Saudi's completely fucked the wine in the air, hasn't he?

Dan: he? Is it Coe?

Sidey: No, I, I took the the foil off and I immediately clocked the cork didn't look right.

And it's cork splintered my pancreas. So I dunno if we're gonna be able to get to it. And I suspect the wine, if we do get into it, might not.

Pete: It

Reegs: [00:13:00] Dan, you've got a collection of Samurai swords

Dan: that's not a problem. I've also got a,

Sidey: it's a, it's a 2000. It's a, from the year

Pete: It is a vintage.

Dan: a pulp.

It

Sidey: it got, it's got the whiff of something that's been left, stood upright

Pete: Yeah. Do you think it's been affected by the millennium bug?

Sidey: Yeah.

Dan: Yeah. We may have

Reegs: to. A lot of

Sidey: where there's the will is a way

Dan: port in the house.

Pete: Well, I'm happy to get on the port, but thank you for walking us through the night manager, Daniel.

That was very interesting and it sounds like you would recommend it strongly.

Dan: I would, yes. No, brilliant stuff. Go for it. It's there. And they're, the only thing is they're, they're dropping dripping.

I've

Sidey: that with fallout at the moment. I'm not starting it

Dan: Yeah, they're dropping drip in the

Pete: I've watched the first season, the all of it will be ready.

Dan: You could binge

Sidey: unless you watched them all tonight

Pete: I'm not gonna do that.

Sidey: Alright.

Dan: go for