The Honourable Woman [BBC 2]

JP Liz V1

The Honourable Woman follows Nessa Stein who, as a child witnessed the assassination of her father who was a Zionist arms procurer. As an adult, inheriting her father’s company, she dramatically inverts its purpose from supplying arms to laying high-spec data cabling networks between Israel and the West Bank. Now in her thirties, her sudden appointment as a life peer, apparently due to her tireless promotion of projects for reconciliation between the Israelis and Palestinians, creates an international political maelstrom. Following the murder of a Palestinian business man, Samir Meshal, after he had just been awarded the latest cabling contract, Nessa and her brother Ephra find themselves placed under the scrutiny of both Whitehall and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6).
The cast includes Maggie Gyllenhaal, Janet McTeer, Tobias Menzies, Stephen Rea, Lindsay Duncan, Andrew Buchan, Katherine Parkinson, Lubna Azabal, Genevieve O’Reilly and Igal Naor. The executive producers are Polly Hill, Hugo Blick and Greg Brenman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQYsZEbu1RI

Starts tomorrow night

Harry Palmr

This shall no doubt be as brilliantly acted and as headbanginly obtuse/frustrating as The Shadow Line.

Bring it on!

Alfred Borden

On at 9. Finally something decent on a thursday night for the summer.

Addle

Does anyone know if the 1st episode is due to be repeated on tv?

JP Liz V1

Addle wrote: »

Does anyone know if the 1st episode is due to be repeated on tv?

Is it not on iplayer?

Addle

I don't have access to the BBC player.
I'd prefer to watch it on tv rather than online.

JP Liz V1

Addle wrote: »

I don't have access to the BBC player.
I'd prefer to watch it on tv rather than online.

I don't think it is on BBC 2 sorry

Harry Palmr

Enjoyed part two rather more, the FBI woman and her taxi was the highlight, very much Blick at his most "Blickness". Pity the Anglo-Jewish family are rather hard to like, the security shenanigans much the best part of this.

mafaa

The Honourable Woman won't return for second series, says Hugo Blick

Alfred Borden

mafaa wrote: »

The Honourable Woman won't return for second series, says Hugo Blick

Thats disappointing, finding it very enjoyable.

Raf32

Raf32 wrote: »

Thats disappointing, finding it very enjoyable.

Have yet to watch the show but the fact that it's standalone is great. Far too many one offs end up getting a second series pick up and the writers hastily rewrite what they have to set up that second series.It's nice to have a show which knows what it wants to do and isn't going to try and string it out.

Addle

Why does she sleep in that room?

Harry Palmr

Addle wrote: »

Why does she sleep in that room?

Its a "safe room" and everyone wants to kill or kidnap her.

Alfred Borden

I really think this is the show of the summer.

HeidiHeidi

Raf32 wrote: »

I really think this is the show of the summer.

I thought that for the first few episodes, but feel it's slowing down a lot the last couple.

Doesn't help that I'm UTTERLY lost most of the time, have to keep looking up online synopses afterwards!

M.G.'s very. slow. deliberate. delivery. is starting to grate a bit on me as well.

Missed tonight's but hoping some of the cloud lifts - looking forward to it tomorrow night!

Addle

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Its a "safe room" and everyone wants to kill or kidnap her.

But why the fake bedroom so?
And would a safe room have to be so clinical looking?

I missed the first episode unfortunately, but still love the show. I think Maggie Gyllenhaal is great.

Caprica

Just finished watching the last episode this evening. A fantastic show, very well acted and scripted, loved the music. I was a bit unsure of Stephen Rea and Hayden Hoyle starting of but I came to like and enjoy him greatly towards the end. Hopefully it wins some awards, very impressed with Maggie Gyllenhaal. Definitely the show of the summer for me.

I think it's right to end it at this point, dragging it into a second season would have ruined it, it's nicely wrapped up now.

Gingervitis

Yeah; this, Rectify, and to a lesser extent Happy Valley and Utopia, have been the stand out shows of the summer.

Not sure how I can go back to Homeland after watching this. Phenomenal work, and I can't wait to see what Stephen Rea does next. I've always rated him as an actor, but he's really hit the heights with a George Smiley-esque performance.

I think I prefer the mini-series format to your typical network 22 episode run. This is punchy, direct, no fluff quality. Heartily recommend.

HeidiHeidi

I thought Stephen Rea was borderline comical at first, he was trying FAR too hard at the posh brit accent! But he fairly settled into it, and he was brilliant in the last few episodes.

I'd had enough of Maggie Gyllenahll by the end, I thought she over-egged the pudding just a bit. Not saying she wasn't brilliant - she was, and that accent! - but it was just a bit OTT for my liking.

My head was in a complete spin by the end of the last episode, trying to figure out all the double/triple/quadruple-crossings that were going on. I'm still not sure I have the whole story straight.

It was quite the body count by the end.

Overall a brilliant series - anyone who hasn't seen it, if it comes up on repeat or on a player somewhere, catch it.

leonards

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

I thought Stephen Rea was borderline comical at first, he was trying FAR too hard at the posh brit accent! But he fairly settled into it, and he was brilliant in the last few episodes.

I'd had enough of Maggie Gyllenahll by the end, I thought she over-egged the pudding just a bit. Not saying she wasn't brilliant - she was, and that accent! - but it was just a bit OTT for my liking.

My head was in a complete spin by the end of the last episode, trying to figure out all the double/triple/quadruple-crossings that were going on. I'm still not sure I have the whole story straight.

It was quite the body count by the end.

Overall a brilliant series - anyone who hasn't seen it, if it comes up on repeat or on a player somewhere, catch it.

Just watched it on US netflix. Best TV in a long time. Head spinning. Looking firward to my first trip to Israel in two weeks time....

JP Liz V1

PeterDuggan wrote: »

The Honourable Woman, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, starts on TG4 on Thu, 2/4/15 at 9.30pm. Once again fair play to TG4.

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evolving_doors

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

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Just started now... looks interesting but i get the feeling you'll have to be paying attention... a lot.