The Company

This is great storytelling; one of the best spy thrillers I've ever seen. It's refreshing that the film manages to avoid relying on one death-proof superspy, instead favoring a far more nuanced and long-term view of espionage in Europe and the Americas. This is what The Good Shepherd should have been, rather than the excruciatingly boring film it turned out to be.

There are a lot of things wrong in this series, but the things it gets right are so good, and so subtle, that it deserves more attention. I loved seeing an ensemble age over time and see actual changes in their characters.

Speaking from my own experience, the portrayal of East Berlin was quite silly. No way these guys could move as freely as they did. What other lesson we can learn from this? It only shows the failures of the Company.