Her stubbornness has its roots in compassionate but clear-eyed morality - matters that don’t much concern Roper.īurr, however, has met her match in the billionaire, who is every bit as tenacious as his adversary but also well supplied with money, influence and hulking armed guards. In that instance and others, it’s easy to see why everyone who runs into the determined, no-nonsense Burr can’t resist helping her, even if it’s likely to get them into trouble. The source of her obsession with him doesn’t become clear until late in the six-episode run, in a scene that Colman plays with typically subtle yet charismatic intensity. As for government officials, many are only too eager to turn a blind eye to Roper’s activities he certainly has enough money to keep them conveniently complacent.Īs she did in “Broadchurch,” Colman plays a character who has no time for the sins and evasive behavior of bad men, and as the head of a small but dogged enforcement agency, her Angela Burr cooks up a scheme to catch Roper red-handed.
Roper would fit right in with that crowd, given that his true moneymaking schemes are all but invisible to the media, which doesn’t have the time to sort through the baroque fronts he uses to solidify his image as a responsible businessman and hard-working philanthropist, even as he trades arms and other illicit materials. “The Night Manager” feels especially timely in the wake of the release of the Panama Papers, which exposed the way bigwigs use shell companies to avoid paying taxes, among other shady endeavors.
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