The Daily Beast/Prime Ten years between TV seasons is a veritable eternity, and to lure people back into its spy games, The Night Manager delivers a long-awaited follow-up which shifts networks (from AMC to Prime Video, via BBC One), changes directors (Georgi Banks-Davies, replacing Susanne Bier), and relocates from Egypt to Colombia. Yet in every appreciable way, it fails to live up to its shiny reputation. Mechanical and predictable, this six-part sequel (Jan. 11) sends Tom Hiddleston’s British intelligence officer on an overseas mission to thwart the nefarious activities of an arms dealer who’s a lot like his prior nemesis, doing almost nothing novel with its template save for coloring its action with a bit of out-of-left-field homoeroticism. Its every step foreseeable and marked by corny dialogue and de rigueur twists, it’s a failed bid to recapture the original’s Emmy-winning magic. Read more at The Daily Beast.