We’ve now reached the halfway mark. Was there ever any doubt that Charlie would accept her mission to ferry explosives across multiple borders? _SPOILER ALERT: This recap contains spoilers for episode two of The Little Drummer Girl. You can read the episode two recap here_ When does the “theatre of the real” get too real? Episode three of the Little Drummer Girl started with a God’s eye view of a red Mercedes lined with explosives snaking through Greek country roads, and ended with that same vehicle erupting into a fireball on a German autobahn. Staged by Kurtz (Michael Shannon) and his team, it was a coolly calculated and highly extrajudicial execution: killing Salim/Michel and his pretty courier Anna, perpetrators of the Bad Godesberg bombing that opened the series. An act of vengeance, then, but one purposefully designed to keep the conflict going. Continue reading...
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