An expensive perfume commercial with an espionage story that is full of plot holes and cliche. Tom is classically trained at Cambridge and RADA. I’m pretty sure he can act. But he did such a bad job in this show that even his Aegean blue eyes were not able to save it. The director herself was clearly a “Hiddlestoner”. So much so that the entire series became utterly an admiration of Tom’s intoxicating gazes and bright grins and his marble statue like body, which significantly derailed the story line and distracted audience’s attention. I enjoyed staring at Tom’ s face and body, enormously. I mean who wouldn’t? Tom was beautifully shot in most scenes. But it aren’t working for this show. It aren’t working for any show. We say that Tom is so attractive that “I can even watch him vacuuming an empty house over and over again without feeling bored”. Well I guess it aren't true. At least not for me. You gotta be careful about what you wish for. If there is something that’s worth mentioning it’s probably the so called “female gaze”, which presents the appreciation of a male’s body from a female’s prospective. For instance the “suiting up” scene and all the sex scenes and nonsex scenes that involved Tom in it. Inadequate acting, bad directing and worse story telling made The Night Manager a piece of work that’s even worse than a mediocre in this genre. It didn’t do le Carré justice. Although, I do believe Hugh Laurie and Olivia Coleman both deserved a Golden Globe. Their acting was fantastic and incredible. But Tom? He was definitely not ready for the role of the next generation “James Bond”. And he should probably take some time off and think about his choice of roles (and choice of life too). I mean, Crimson Peak? Skull Island? Taylor Swift? Seriously? (Don’t get me wrong. I’m a huge Taylor fan. But still).
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