#and that plus or minus a bit of passport forgery and staged kidnapping the grand espionage plan is just.

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The target audience for this post is approximately three people but. Apart from Olivia Colman as genderswapped Leonard Angela Burr, one of my favorite things about the TV adaptation of The Night Manager is how hard they leaned into the fact that the villains are just Everyman: Worst Capitalists You Know edition. It’s that simple. They’re literally just dime a dozen shitty rich guys with a shady government contract, a wallet where their consciences should be, and an unfortunately well-justified sense of impunity. Their great exploitable weakness is the deeply banal and human fact that Richard “Worst Man In The World” Roper would do anything for his kid except drive him to the airport when he has a business meeting (HE IS HIS OWN BOSS. HE SETS THE MEETINGS), and Sandy “Worst Husband In The World” Langbourne emotional-labors his wife’s ear off with all the gory details of their illegal arms smuggling operation and then cheats on her with the au pair and anything else that moves.

ANYWAY not to belabor a previous point in a circuitous fashion but. This is part of what I mean when I say that the Imperial Coruscant vibes on Andor were absolutely impeccable