The Honourable Woman

[llywela]

Okay, so we're now five out of eight episodes into the one-off series, The Honourable Woman, and it's still got me tuning in every week, my only live show currently. Topical in a way the programme makers probably couldn't have anticipated when they began work on the project, the show is a mystery drama centering around the Middle East conflict, specifically people connected to that conflict from afar yet also not really part of it, on the outside looking in, and how the high stakes politics they dabble with impact on their lives as individuals and as family. Everyone here is deeply flawed. Everyone has a distinct point of view, individual aims and motivations and biases, which come into conflict in often unexpected ways. And everyone has secrets. It isn't always easy to watch, but is intriguing, compelling viewing.

I came into it largely for Andrew Buchan, whose work I always love, so did not expect to find myself this upset over Tobias Menzies - I really liked his character!

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[solosundance.livejournal.com]

I haven't yet seen the latest episode, but I was totally gripped by last week's - harrowing stuff. Up to then each week I'd been ready to give it up. Not sure I'm totally a fan of Hugo Blick's very stylistic filming or even, at times, his script, but I enjoy the pacing and many of the characters (Atika and Hayden-Hoyle in particular - and yes, I really liked Tobias Menzies' character too!).

[llywela13.livejournal.com]

I am wise to their tricks now. If this show spends an episode making me really like a side character, it means they are going to die. Don't get attached!

Two episodes on, I have not yet forgiven Nessa for Bloom. I liked him! And so did she, that makes it so much worse.

I think the show has flaws, everything does, but I knew from the first episode that I was in it for the haul - I want to know how it all plays out in the wash.