Unlike some TV hits that have been following the same characters since 2016, The Night Manager prudently acknowledges that its returning cast is now a full decade older. A short introductory sequence has Hiddleston’s Jonathan Pine meeting his stalwart partner, Angela Burr (Colman), in Syria four years after the events of Season 1 to identify the body of the villain they brought down, Laurie’s Richard Roper. (If you should, quite understandably, need your memory jogged regarding the details of Roper’s downfall, read this.) With that loose end knotted, we jump to present-day London, where Pine has a cat, a neighbor who’d like to be his girlfriend, a new alias (Alex Goodwin, not that he keeps it for long), and a desk job running an afterhours MI6 surveillance unit called the Night Owls. Despite his flair for undercover field work, he professes to have no interest in doing more of it. In fact, he seems to have no real purpose or identity at all these days, a problem on which the show gratuitously lingers, giving the people around him be-careful-what-you-wish-for lines like: “Tell me who you really are.”