The Night Manager Part 2 review: Anil Kapoor and Tillotama Shome remain the best bits of this serviceable thriller
Part 2 of the Night Manager picks up pace when compared to the first one that took too long to establish the basic plot. But it remains a serviceable thriller.
We didn’t have to wait for Part 2 of The Night Manager for this long. And I don’t mean it in a good way. The Indian adaptation of the 2016 British thriller series of the same name dropped its first four episodes in March and the viewer had to wait for more three than months to finish what they started.
The problem with this two-part distribution and the long wait between them was two-fold. Firstly, the original version, starring Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie, Olivia Colman and Elizabeth Dickie, is already available in full for viewing in India. Secondly, the Indian adaptation had binge-watch written all over it. Not because it’s nail-bitingly edgy and pacey, but one would’ve preferred to snort it and get it out of the way in one go.
Overall, however, The Night Manager remains a middling entry in the crowded room of thrillers that mingle in the Indian streaming space today. It lands somewhere between a slow burn and an edgy thriller, constantly battling an existential crisis. The focus dwindles from plot to characters, thus restricting the narrative to optimally juice either of them.