Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (novel, miniseries, and forthcoming film to be directed by Tomas Alfredson)

I see that someone asked this same question on the IMDb forum for the series, and here's how someone else answered it:

The business with Tarr and Merlin is complicated, and it’s easy to miss its significance.

• After Tarr flees Lisbon and hides out in Marseilles, Karla is desperate to shut him up. After using Witchcraft to discredit him at the Circus, Karla sends people to look for Tarr.

• Tarr, realizing that he’s being looked for, decides it’s time to come in from the cold. In order to protect his daughter and his daughter’s mother, he sets up a diversion: He secures travel bookings to London for them in the name of “Poole,” to match his own false identity, which he knows is blown. He then gives them the false Swiss papers that he had on him when he went to Lisbon and sends them to an entirely different destination. At this point, the only people in the world who associate the “Poole” travel bookings with Tarr are the Russians.

• In Guillam’s meeting with Alleline et al, he learns that Merlin is relating the “Poole/Tarr family to London” story to the Circus as a way of further discrediting him before he gets to anyone at the Circus. This draws a direct line between Merlin and Karla.

The rest of it is a result of Smiley’s reading of the history of Witchcraft, and his realization from that of how Witchcraft serves the needs of Moscow Centre. While this is the subject of an entire chapter of the novel, the whole thing is explained in a single brief scene in the TV series, and not at all in the recent film. It’s not really surprising that it wasn’t really clear.

The person wrote this is correct that it's not very clear in the series, and not explained at all in the movie. There's no scene where Smiley would connect all these dots, so his claim that Witchcraft is linked to the mole seems to come out of nowhere.

Do we have a thread on Night Manager?

They did a good job on it, despite/because/whatever studding it with big star actors and glamming it up

still no thread afaik but I'm watching it now on AMC and enjoying it

(The Night Manager, that is)

good menswear

pvmic

although the scene in the most recently aired episode had hiddleston's character being sized up by a tailor and the dimensions read off made me think, damn that is one fit dude

I think it was like 41" chest, 32" waist

All fine attributes for modelling men's underwear and boat racing season, but not significant qualities in a half decent actor.

or modelling t-shirts
http://assets.elleuk.com/gallery/23464/tom-hiddleston-elle-feminism-t-shirt__large.jpg

Guinness & Co rule, Hurt & Co drool

lol http://www.hollywood-elsewhere.com/2016/06/sedative/

pretty sure I've used those shows in much the same way many times

although I often don't make it into bed before falling asleep

confession: I didn't finish the blu ray set of the original series. Love the book, the movie is okay-to-good, I didn't feel like the miniseries was leaps and bounds beyond it (aside from having more time to fit material in) and both pale in comparison to the novel.

mini series owns so hard

i liked the night manager alot tho agree w whoever said it was unnecessarily sexed up, especially the scene where they demo the weapons by shooting multiple airplanes out of the sky was very silly

xp otm otm otm fu "karl malone" morelike karla moron

Lol i was so busy linking that i didnt notice it was milo

i dont have a milo/ttss joke

Someone start a Night Manager thread plz, it is completely disrespectful to mention that garbage on this thread.

its by the same author

I am not being completely serious, but he is a terrible writer and i didn't notice this thread was about the movie - rather than the two brilliant series.

also*

yeah night manager was trash

grudging respect for the sun's "tinker taylor snogs a spy"

at least there was some comedy relief added in the ep where TH is developing his drug dealer/tough guy back story or Colman's Yorkshire accent throughout.

actually her accent isn't funny it is just very bad.

I liked Night Manager but it was sooo lightweight

no love for house md smh

I was just listening to a really compelling episode of R4 series Document about Eric Roberts - the MI5 op who uncovered a large network of 5th Column fascists in wartime England. The MI5 fucked him off in the cold war years when he was in Vienna, possibly because of his grammar school background - they probably thought he was a Soviet mole. After which he went into a complete ILXer style huff and followed it up by emigrating to Canada!

Is that downloadable, sounds just the ticket for my drive today

I'm not sure if it's downloadable but link is here.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b061qzwt

i had to make a gif for this

https://i.makeagif.com/media/5-25-2017/W8XGiW.gif

It is perfect.

Best moment of the series

😍

R.I.P. Ricki Tarr :/

Park Chan-Wook is making his TV debut directing a John Le Carré adaptation starring Alexander Skarsgard and Michael Shannon?! pic.twitter.com/N4mRAvQOPi

— sonia saraiya (@soniasaraiya) August 21, 2018

fuckin all right

doesnt sound too shabby

hi lag∞n!

haay

watching again (movie) and rly its excellent

the little drummer girl is pretty good so far

ilm

This is my comfort movie

have u watched the mini series

Do we all love the BBC’s Smiley’s People? I love the BBC’s Smiley’s People. That and Tinker Tailor I’ll watch at least once per year.

its great but its a step below TTSS tbf

I know that TTSS is all about claustrophobic offices etc but it really is fun to see smiley hopping around Europe a bit.

Lagoon I’ve seen the miniseries but it came from the library. I’d probably rewatch that a ton too if it were available digitally.