![]() Scripted with surgical economy by Peter Straughan (“ The Men Who Stare at Goats”) and his late wife and sometime collaborator, Bridget O’Connor (“Mrs. It may be a period piece, right down to the slacks flared just so and the vintage wallpaper, but it feels painfully apt now to revisit the early-to-mid-1970s, when things were just about to fall apart. ![]() Now, in the wake of corruption scandals that include the world banking crisis, this version catches the newest wave of disillusionment and anxiety. The notion that deep in the heart of democracy, those who were supposed to be its staunchest defenders might be unprincipled traitors, resonated with auds anxious about a volatile future. ![]() ![]() The show was a hit perhaps not just because of the intrinsically compelling espionage story: Following on the heels of Watergate and the fall of the Shah in Iran, which prompted a crisis of confidence in intelligence networks, “Tinker” chimed with an international sense of disillusionment with those in power. ![]() Older viewers will remember well the BBC-Paramount seven-part miniseries from 1979, which starred Alec Guinness as an avuncular, donnish Smiley. Like the characters within the story who are all haunted by the past, the film itself has its ghosts. ![]()
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