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Helen begins a passionate affair with a man who has no idea of her secret identity. When her lover falls victim to the dangerous London underworld, Helen finds herself in the crosshairs and her employer calls Sam to protect her. Included in Graham Norton i gosti: Cher/Keira Knightley/Michael Fassbender/Josh Brolin/Jalen Ngonda (2024).
Meet Helen Dawson (Keira Knightley), a perfectly normal mother of two who is married to a politician, right?
Wrong, she has actually been a spy since shortly before her encounter with the politician and has been passing on national secrets to a spy organization called The Black Doves, which has been selling them to the highest bidder for years. Unfortunately for Helen’s boss, Helen has begun an affair and when Helen’s new lover is killed, she embarks on a revenge mission to find his killer. As Helen goes about her mission, she soon finds out that her lover’s murder might be connected to the death of the Chinese ambassador.
It’s these great action scenes that kept me very interested throughout the series
And she also gets involved in a lot of gunfights (which reminded me of Shoot ’em Up and John Wick), hand-to-hand fights (which showed that she’s definitely not a damsel in distress) and explosive lucky escapes (which will keep you hooked). And I didn’t even get bored during the flashbacks showing how Helen first started espionage, because even in those scenes there was good gunfighting. I also really enjoyed the witty one-liners that both Helen and her spy partner Sam (Ben Whishaw) deliver very well.
For example, after an explosive lucky escape, Helen dislocates her shoulder and has to put it back in place by slamming her arm against a wall
Afterward, Sam says, “That was pretty impressive.” And Helen says, “You should have seen me squeeze two people out of myself in the same afternoon.” While I was never bored and definitely didn’t feel like this series was too drawn out and would have been better as a long movie, I think the last episode could have been about 10-20 minutes shorter, and towards the end of the series I found it a little too complicated. I understand that they were trying to set up the last episode for a second season, but I still think they could have done that if they had made the series a little shorter. I also think that a second season would need to portray Helen’s husband Wallace (Andrew Buchan) as a stronger character, because throughout the series Helen has to keep sneaking off to solve her lover’s murder, but not even when Wallace becomes suspicious at the end of the series does he never confront her about her secrecy.
Despite these minor issues, I would definitely watch a second season and would happily rewatch this series and buy it on DVD
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