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Black Doves Season-Premiere Recap: Hello, Darling
Keira Knightley stars in Netflix’s answer to Slow Horses, and it makes for a fun, fizzy holiday mystery.
The fast-paced, expectation-subverting series — in a category I shorthand as Banter & Bullets — was renewed for a second season before its premiere on Netflix, so feel free to get invested in these characters and their attempts to stay alive long enough to exact vengeance against London’s worst, shadowiest bad guys. She’s an exemplary agent, particularly on the soft power and cover-preserving aspects of the role, managing her family’s social life with ease and style — we see her listening sympathetically to Wallace’s concerns about the suspicious death of the Chinese ambassador, then bundling him and their elementary school-aged twins Jacqueline and Oli into a cab to attend their annual Christmas party/charitable fundraiser — but Reed has perceived cracks in Helen’s veneer of sunny capability. It emerges as a major source of Sam’s melancholy when he attends a quiet dinner with his long-ghosted civilian friends Arnie and Zack: it’s been seven years since he fled London without a word to them, but they still love him, and bring him up to speed about his ex-boyfriend Michael, who has moved on with his life and is now a father, via surrogacy.
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