'The Night Manager' Season 2 Reviews Are In: See How Critics Feel About the Long-Awaited New Season
The Night Manager returns today (January 11)!
In Season 2 of the Prime Video series, which arrives one decade after the first season, “Jonathan Pine (Tom Hiddleston) thought he’d buried his past. Now living as Alex Goodwin – a low-level MI6 officer running a quiet surveillance unit in London – his life is comfortingly uneventful. Then one night a chance sighting of an old Roper mercenary prompts a call to action and leads Pine to a violent encounter with a new player: Colombian businessman Teddy Dos Santos (Diego Calva).”
“On this perilous new journey, Pine meets Roxana Bolaños (Camila Morrone), a businesswoman who reluctantly helps him infiltrate Teddy’s Colombian arms operation. Once in Colombia, Pine is plunged deep into a deadly plot involving arms and training of a guerrilla army. As allegiances splinter, Pine races to expose a conspiracy designed to destabilise a nation. And with betrayal at every turn, he must decide whose trust he needs to earn and how far he’s willing to go before it’s too late.”
The show just launched its first three episodes of Season 2 on Sunday (January 11) on Prime Video, which will also premiere on BBC iPlayer and BBC One in the United Kingdom.
But what are critics saying about the show so far?
Keep reading to find out more…
The Night Manager Season 2 currently has a 90% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Daily Beast writes: “Its every step foreseeable and marked by corny dialogue and de rigueur twists, it’s a failed bid to recapture the original’s Emmy-winning magic.”
The Times gives it 3 out of 5, writing: “Look, it is well written and well made and it is too early to judge, but I am not getting that ‘I must see the next episode immediately’ feeling yet.”
TIME says: “Everything clicks into place after a revelation at the end of Episode 3.”
Guardian gives it 4 out of 5, writing: “None of this is to say The Night Manager is suddenly average: it still floats far above most of the competition. But it no longer feels pristine.”
The Independent gives it 4 out of 5, writing: “Gripping without being excessively silly, compelling without being indulgently cerebral, The Night Manager pulls off the, increasingly rare, trick of knowing its audience, understanding its success, and replicating the formula.”
Empire gives it 4 out of 5, writing: “Fast-paced and tons of fun, this return makes you wonder why nobody thought to make a sequel years ago.”
BBC gives it 4 out of 5, writing: “Jonathan has the good intentions of a hero plus the dangerous, bad-boy allure more often seen in a villain. Despite a few clumsy missteps, The Night Manager Season 2 is as enticing as he is.”