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It's British. In Britain 6 episodes is a series ;)

Tell that to EastEnders :)

And quite a long one. I had to buy a whole new box of tea to get through it all.

You forget the academy award winning Olivia Coleman

She was heavily pregnant when shooting the night manager and nobody noticed.

I grew up with Hugh Laurie when he partnered Stephen Fry in their comedy turns on the BBC. To see him portray a villain with such steely eyed certainty was breath taking. The first and last episodes are something to behold - he absolutely gravitates malign intent.

I mean, if we're talking television adaptations, the BBC Tinker and Smiley's People are hard to top; Alec Guinness is George Smiley.

It has the most satisfying ending of any series that I have watched.

Personal opinion, it was a well done series, but trying to update the timing of the events to make it related to the post-2010 "arab spring" didn't do anything good for the story. The original story was a product of the time it was written, in a pre-smartphone, pre-widespread-internet use era.