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Podcast: New Books in Popular Culture
Episode: The Night Manager Episodes 1—3 Analysis: It Never Ends!
Description: It’s The Pop Culture Professors, and we analyze the first three episodes of The Night Manager, season two. We consider the season as a continuation of Le Carré’s narrative, and consider how far the themes of this new iteration of the series match those of Le Carré’s wider body of work. We look into the ideologies (and views on ideology) that underpin the series, and consider the extent to which the Pine character, cycling endlessly from one identity to the next, is a hero for our post-truth age. Learn more about your ad choice...