Black Doves Is Everything You Could Want From a Spy Thriller
Happy holidays, you get a spy show! As we round out the year, an array of espionage is at your fingertips: Eddie Redmayne is having a blast under old-man prosthetics on The Day of the Jackal; Ted Danson is creeping around a retirement home in A Man on the Inside; there’s heady, slick dialogue about spycraft on The Agency and heavy-handed, tiring dialogue about spycraft on Lioness. These series each have their selling points, but only one meets all the genre requirements and also throws in a few delightful extras: spirited characters and lively world-building, frenetic action and fizzy conversation, Ben Whishaw’s luscious hair, Keira Knightley smiling like she wants to rip you apart with her teeth. Black Doves is the platonic ideal of a spy thriller, all of its elements fully in sync for a fun time.