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teddypining

trying really REALLY hard to get back to my meta series it's just like. the swimming pool scene is killing me like. there's just SO much to write about i'm flhgdfkghdghdhg

olemisekunst

omg I miss those so much, man. They were always so delicious.

teddypining

ahhh thank you - i was wondering if anyone would still read them, since it's been a while 🥰!!!

bignerdtreetops

Ahhh, please please, I’d read the heck out of them, if you’re inspired, please share with us! But no pressure. You write such wonderful stuff, full stop!

boitterfly

it’s so special to me that so much of fan culture is textual analysis for the love of the game. like thank god there are people in my phone who are also thinking about this thing i love so much that they are writing transformative fiction as character studies and setting clips of the show to music with theme-relevant lyrics and writing long text posts analyzing every line of dialogue like!! yay!!!

#yup #fandom

teh-nos

happy pride to this meme that came true.

#i only wish corky had been around to see teddypine he'd have been so pissed off he'd have thrown a little strop 😭#<- prev: 100%! the biggest stroppiest silent flouncy strop you’ve ever seen- would have been so fun!#the night manager season 2 #the night manager #happy pride 🌈#you made this pre-S2?! fantastic work :))

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The idea of returning for a second season of The Night Manager was challenging, if not downright impossible, the stars and creators say.

Of all the things Tom Hiddleston remembers about the 2016 release of The Night Manager, a moment with Joe Biden immediately comes to mind.

The actor, who played Jonathan Pine in the original BBC One/AMC production and its subsequent season on Prime Video, remembers how the 46th president approached him at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner to say how much he loved the John Le Carré adaptation about an undercover night porter who spies on Hugh Laurie’s arms-dealing Richard Roper.

“All sorts of extraordinary people would approach me to say how much they loved it, like President Joe Biden,” remembered Hiddleston. “It’s an extraordinary privilege to make something that has an impact like that, that the audience really took the show to their hearts, and it seemed to reflect something honest about the state of the world at the time.”

Hiddleston was joined by his The Night Manager co-star Diego Calva, director/executive producer Georgi Banks-Davies, executive producer Stephen Garrett and creator/executive producer David Carr for a conversation at Deadline Studio @ Prime Experience. Watch their conversation below and scroll down for photos from the event.

As compelling (and Emmy-winning) as the first season was, Farr unwittingly “painted ourselves rightly into a narrative corner,” admitted Garrett. That made the idea of returning for a second season challenging, if not downright impossible, because “we’d actually ended the story.”

“We’d done what so many shows now that come back don’t do, leaving audiences frustrated because they’re setting up a second season,” he added. “We had no intention of setting up a second season. It’s a difficult story to tell and all credit to David and everyone else involved that [Season 2] turned out the way it did.”

Credit for the success of Season 2 – which launched on Prime in January – goes to the “fresh ignition” that is Calva (Babylon, Bird Box: Barcelona). He plays Teddy Dos Santos, Roper’s illegitimate son who has taken up the family business.

“I had a thought about Teddy as a character, this very strange, lonely, other son who’s sexually fluid, odd,” says Farr. “Then the next piece of the jigsaw, just to kind of keep the momentum, was to find an actor who could take that on. Suddenly the show had its own color and feel. It was an exciting moment for all of us.”

What transpires in Season 2 is an extraordinary journey of two men who become unwitting partners in a quest to destroy Roper once and for all. Now living under the alias Alex Goodwin in London, Hiddleston’s former intelligence officer character finds out that Roper is not only alive and kicking but backing a military coup in Colombia and using an illegal charity to train kid soldiers. Teddy wants to please his absentee father but learns through Pine that daddy will never love him the way he adores his blue-blooded white son back in the UK.

One of the more provocative moments of the six-episode second season is when Pine and Teddy perform a seductive dance with Camila Morrone’s Roxana, who ends up looking like a bit of a third wheel.

“It’s about power,” explained Banks-Davies. “It’s about using sex as power. Roxana is using it against Pine in the first instance and then bringing Teddy in to weaponize the moment. Those shields kind of slip. The connections start to truly come together. Some of that is sexual chemistry, and some of it is just friendship and camaraderie and danger. For one simple dance, it’s quite complicated.”

“It’s really dangerous,” continued Hiddleston. “So much of what Diego and I talked about with Teddy and Pine wasn’t necessarily about their physicality. It was about their spiritual bond that they connected through so many shared experiences, even though they’ve had very different lives. They both recognize each other. They’re both orphans and perhaps not literally, but they feel as though they are. They’re alone in the world. They have deep wells of private pain and deep wells of complex interior life. They understand the tension between the external and the internal and they recognize each other very quickly. We had a phrase which Diego translated from it takes one to know one…”

“Como el que sabe sabe,” says Calva.

“There’s almost a brotherhood between them,” continues Hiddleston, to which Calvo responds, “and a common enemy.”

The Night Manager, which also marked the return of Laurie and Olivia Colman as Angela Burr, will return for a third season.

fforsythiaaa

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

verylittlebird

distraptor velociraptor = ———————-

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batmanisagatewaydrug

sorry to be a broken record every month but christ menstruation is a stupid concept. oooooh excuse me for not getting pregnant, why the fuck is there goo falling out of me about it? grow the fuck up and reabsorb that shit for nutrients.

just-barrow

🧸🌲 56/∞

sgt-cookie-2

Me (A time traveler visiting 20-year old Mozart): OK, so, this is called an electric guitar, basically instead of the body functioning as a resonance chamber, it produces music by harnessing the power of lightning. Do you have any other questions?

Mozart (Currently shredding Violin Concerto No. 1 on the guitar, having figured it out within 30 seconds): What other music can be made from harnessed lightning?

Me (Loading up some heavy dubstep): Oh, we're just getting started.

a-wild-torterra

The twelfth doctor posted this

teh-nos

perfectdevils

Tom Hiddleston and Diego Calva as Jonathan Pine and Teddy Dos Santos in The Night Manager Season 2 Episode 4 (2026)

pinesloki

Some thoughts on teddypine's vulnerability and their love languages

I have had so many thoughts about them this week they're insaneeee

Starting with the shed scene.

There are guards literally right outside the door, or they're pretty damn close. Teddy and Jonathan are not surrounded by solid walls here, either. It's literally just a ramshackle shed with wooden beams and GAPS. SO MANY GAPS!!! it really scared me when I watched this for the first time cause I was like ... surely they're gonna be heard. It's already a high stress & risk situation, and to make it even more so, they are literally talking about fooling Roper and (to me) faith to get out of this alive. WHERE PEOPLE CAN HEAR THEM. They are literally having a very emotional and intimate one to one goodbye wound tending scene asking for trust and faith. !!???? And if they are heard, Teddy and Jonathan are dead. No doubt. Like, this is not a safe space for them to be doing what they're doing and saying what they're saying. Granted this whole situation is NOT a safe space and maybe that’s the point, narratively putting them at the focal point of danger and all.

But they make each other weaker. They care. They care so deeply, which makes them susceptible.

We have seen vulnerability with them before, probably what makes them so drawn to each other. There's the church scene, the dance scene (which is whole other crazy levels of physical and emotional intimacy), the boat scene, the Cartagena office scene.

And then the cliff scene where they talk about said Cartegena office scene with such aching tenderness from Jonathan’s side and a hesitation yet a clear YEARNING to let someone in from Teddy’s. But he can't. He's closing himself off a little I feel here, because Teddy is no longer untouchable within the operation. He is very much in danger. He is facing the reality and difficult feelings from sending his father down, the only person he has ever looked up to and loved, and who he thought loved him back.

He wants someone to see Eduardo Vidal - without even knowing it. And Jonathan does - without even trying.

The waterside scene is like a whole goddamn painting of their vulnerability, an ART. Jonathan learns of Teddy's past, his greatest and deepest and most painful truth and one he has pushed aside - in Diego's words, 'felt in the back of his mind his whole life'. In this scene, Jonathan understands that vulnerability needs to go both ways, and he tells Teddy the key parts of himself, laying himself bare just to get Teddy to listen. And not just for the sake of the mission and taking down Roper - no, Jonathan cares at this point.

A lot.

And there are so many more examples of vulnerability between them, basically in like every scene they have.

We also have Diego saying that Teddy's need for love is his biggest weakness, and I think it's pretty obvious that Jonathan's savior complex (esp for people dragged under Roper) is one of his. Then there's also Teddy drugging him to get information / make sure he can trust him.

Jonathan is stripped of all guards and ability to lie, to cover his tracks. It is literally a situation all about trust and betrayal and lies, and they still end up having a very emotionally intimate bond.

And it grows.

And then here they are in the shed at the end of all things. In Tom's own words, 'it's just him and Teddy'. I think for them to have this goodbye scene with SUCH tension and a beautiful undertone of care and love in such a high octane situation is Vulnerability at its best.

Teddy is supposed to be interrogating Jonathan and probably hurting him a lil bit more. But there's nothing but caring mutters and touches and the cradling of faces that say more than words ever could.

Teddy knows he is not going to be able to kill Roper, and he knows this is going to end badly for him. And so to me this is him saying goodbye to Jonathan with the only love language Teddy knows - acts of service. The first one was (according to Diego) putting him on that plane to Paris instead of killing him. And now, these are his final acts. Jonathan is a captive and a tortured man and a dead man in the eyes of Roper and the thugs in the jungle, but Jonathan is untied by Teddy simply for the mercy of being free for the few last moments they have together. Jonathan's wounds (that he obtained in the first place primarily to make his and Teddy's 'act' believeable) are tended to and cared for.

Jonathan HAS to be the one to get hurt. He was pulled into the world of Roper by Angela ten years ago and no way in hell can he get out until Roper has been slain. Yes he put himself forward for this Colombia mission but even so, he is traumatised and obsessed and has ptsd from both his army days and his first Roper mission. And I think Teddy despises seeing blood and bruises on Jonathan. For a man used to violence who is now learning what it is to be with someone in the sense of trust and genuine companionship, I think that it wrecks him with guilt that he has so far come out of it all physically unscathed. And so the only way Teddy can absolved of this guilt and worry and shame is to care for Jonathan like this.

And so this very last face cradle moment to me feels like Teddy being so grateful and thankful to have even met someone like Jonathan in the first place. To have gained his trust but most IMPORTANTLY his genuine affection and his love. I think, kneeling down in front of Jonathan, it is almost another attempt at religious imagery. The first was the pool scene, and this - I think Teddy has spent his entire life looking for forgiveness and strength to have faith and I think that right here, this is it. Jonathan is his faith. Of course he will always have his Catholicism, but I also think that mercy and forgiveness and goodness and moral hope and hope for a better world have become his faith in a different way. I think that through all this vulnerability, Jonathan helps him to learn more of humanity and genuine human love, something he's never had till now.