I'll watch almost anything British. It often takes a while for the story and characters evolve so I know to be patient and just enjoy the journey. The journey here, after a boring 30 minutes or so, led to two men having sex. The boring continued through the episode and the next until I decided there just wasn't anything else. If that's what you like in a movie, you'll like this. Judging from the absolutely glowing, gushing reviews, there must be a wide audience for boring gay porn.

What is critically revealed in LONDON SPY is the fact that the current use of digital facial recognition for personal security devices, smart phones and online social media is the hidden loop hole for government surveillance data/tracking that can be used against innocent civilians. The AI bioethic/metric programming is already in use.Taking it one step further-a lie detector scan just raised the intriguing high-tech clandestine spy ops a lot higher. Like Genealogy DNA testing, the downside can become falsely used incriminating evidence as depicted. "Enemy of the State"This is the most important take away from LONDON SPY.I'm a huge fan of le Carre-and don't see a copycat here, but a masterfully written storyline on equal tradecraft footing. The homo-erotic S&M; true love thread is solid reality juxtaposed to the GRID/HIV epidemic.And the crypted tumbler coded USB stick is brilliant. (I have one to protect my own Algo formulated network research coded data.)The subtilty of cross-cultural traits are perfected with concise dialogue that carries the plot forward. This is masterfully attained only by a disciplined well educated helmer. Worth a binge watch. Kudos BBC.

It is beautiful, great cinematography. Its is very very very well acted. It has a great story line. It has a slow pace. It has spies as in John le Carre's books. You have to see it in 1 day. It will leave you thoroughly fulfilled and satisfied. Oh, why can't there be more of this around...?

As an old and picky consumer of espionage stories, I was attracted to this series by its title, besides the excellent reviews. After finding myself wasting 5 hours of my life, let me just cry: "don't you dare call this a spy story!" For the review of such bummer, I propose the technique of the "onion peeling", i.e. you remove layer after layer and see what is left at the core. Well, the first layer is the photography, the visuals, the imagery: very sleek indeed; next layer, soundtrack: very cool; then the layer of acting performances: pretty good, as the strong cast was promising. So we have removed all the layers supposed to wrap the core, i.e. the story, the plot, the idea.....ooops, there's nothing less....or, the little that is there is so implausible, so absurd that you would prefer the total absence. So in summary, a lot of window dressing, not much more....