![]() ![]() I needed to review what I knew and didn’t know at every stage-not just what we had seen, but what had happened off-camera, what had happened in the interim between the episodes, and also what might have been. Late at night, I would often creep back into the study and watch the episode again, just to be sure I had understood all of it, savored all of its intricacies, noted its omissions and implications. For more than two weeks at the beginning of February, we were locked in a ritual that became the center of our day, the center of our conversation-watching first the six-hour original 1979 BBC version of John le Carré’s “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” (not to be confused with the competent but muffled new movie version), and then its six-hour sequel from 1982, “Smiley’s People.” We would watch one episode each evening after dinner. ![]()
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