Episode 14 · Series · 5 November 2026 · Thriller verdicts
The marriage carries the spy game: sharp, personal, and worth the binge, 8/10
“Her husband runs Britain. She still betrays it.”
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Helen Webb hosts the dinners at Number 10 now. She still passes what she hears to the Black Doves. That contradiction, wife and traitor in the same breath, is the whole engine of season two.
Six episodes, about an hour each, and the best scenes are the quiet ones where the marriage and the double life collide. Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw as Sam carry that tension, with Sarah Lancashire as Mrs Reed keeping the threat cold and close.
The action is the weakest part, oddly weightless at times, with gunfights that change very little. Flashbacks persuade less than the present day material, and the season leans on cliffhangers more than it should.
At 8 out of 10, this is a return, not a victory lap. Season one split critics at 92 percent and audiences at 64 percent, and season two widens the personal stakes rather than just repeating the trick.
Binge it if you liked season one for Helen and Sam more than for the shooting. Wait if you need tight plotting in every hour, because the cracks show most when the show goes loud.
Hero, traitor, or both? The season never lets Helen settle into one label, and the performances carry the places where the plotting wobbles. For a Christmas set spy thriller, that human cost is the point.
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