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No matter the role, Freddie Fox is playing your new favorite unlikable snot.

Is the part you’re reading for kind of an unlikable snot, the type of character the audience is meant to hate, not so much in a This person is evil and dastardly and I hope our hero defeats him way as an Uggghhh, I need to see this guy get injured and/or humiliated way? He plays a character named James “Spider” Webb, an insufferable and pompous dweeb who works in British intelligence and seems to exist solely so that hecan get punched or shot or foiled once every season as a form of cathartic release for the audience. The closest we’ve come is “tried to slither out of duty to go get drunk with his buddies and in doing so made the dumbest character on the show — Criston, blech — look smart for the first and only time in his entire life,” which would be more annoying if the bar hadn’t just been set at “Hitler aficionado.” That’s going to throw off the readings for a while.

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