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

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.

i think its on youtube if thats not a major turnoff

Don't know if anyone on here can answer this, but is the movie version in any way comprehensible to people who have neither read the book nor seen the miniseries? It barely made sense to me, and I felt that was only helped by my familiarity with the story.

The movie was the first form I consumed this in and I found it comprehensible even though it was highly elliptical.

the bern episode of smiley's people is top 3 of the 12 IMO

ive seen the movie a few times, the miniseries twice and read the book and last night i knew what was happening but at two key stages i didnt know how smiley knew what he knew

but im no smiley tbf

The movie cuts a complicated plot down to the bone. Spy intrigue as impressionistic dream logic.

the answer is FLUCHT NACH VORN, toby is the man who spotted it

(it translates as smiley saying "fuck it, let's to it and be legends")