Black Doves: Season 1

...packs a lot of action, humor into six tight episodes

Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw’s gleefully pulpy Christmas gift.

My holiday wish is that the streaming suits work fast to get Knightley and Whishaw back into production so we can gorge ourselves on another Helen-and-Sam adventure come Christmas 2025.

...propulsive and briskly paced, with multiple high-tension race-against-the-clock chase sequences and dramatic shoot-outs.

...doesn’t try to avoid the genre clichés, but instead finds its very individual personality by mashing and twisting them into something surprising, thrilling and much more fun than 90 per cent of current offerings.