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Black Doves Season-Finale Recap: I’ve Built My Dreams Around You


After all the spy games, gunfights, kidnapping, and murder, it’s nice to end the season on the importance of friendship.

The big showdown with the Clarks — featuring the Tracey Ullman in a far-too-short guest role — ends with several bangs, courtesy of Sam, who insists on protecting Helen from both harm and regrettable murders, and also with the whimper of realizing the whole revenge plot was kind of a nothingburger. That argument is further bolstered by how little it shows of the CIA vs. Clarks gun battle in the warehouse’s courtyard and by Jason’s warm-hearted, deeply risky MI5 report exonerating Helen. • Speaking of Reed, the sight of her calmly wrapping Christmas gifts in her enormous, window-rich apartment and, with equal equanimity, cutting herself off from anything resembling responsibility for everything that’s happened in the last 24 hours is one of the most chilling scenes of the year.

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