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Re:Ian Fleming explains how to write a thriller (2019) by yodon on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @03:06PM (#33899504)
If you enjoy Le Carré and haven't checked out the Slough House series (novels and mini series on Apple TV) you're in for a treat. It's not exactly Le Carré, but it's definitely Cold War caliber spy fiction set in the present day with a very Smiley-esque old spy master and a budding young spy who is learning to think like a Smiley rather than act like the Bond he's been trained to be.
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Re:Ian Fleming explains how to write a thriller (2019) by astro-codes on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @03:13PM (#33899611)
Slow Horses contains absolutely none of the complexity of Le Carre. They're in the same genre, but are not comparable.
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Re:Ian Fleming explains how to write a thriller (2019) by tptacek on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @06:40PM (#33901983)
The series you really want is The Night Manager.

Obviously, this assumes you've seen the BBC Tinker Tailor with Alec Guinness, the canonical Smiley.

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Re:Ian Fleming explains how to write a thriller (2019) by LgWoodenBadger on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @05:15PM (#33901109)
It also stars an actor who played George Smiley in another film.
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Re:Ian Fleming explains how to write a thriller (2019) by stevenwoo on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @06:56PM (#33902148)
The conversations are pretty snappy and deadpan, reminiscent of one of the writer's previous work on Veep and The Thick of It, this show is often funnier to me than many comedies.
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Re:Ian Fleming explains how to write a thriller (2019) by GavinMcG on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @03:11PM (#33899593)
Slow Horses?
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