I was 11 years old, at a boarding school in Suffolk, England, when I first watched it. Read: John le Carré’s scathing tale of Brexit Britainīut Tinker Tailor is not like other TV shows: It exists, now, at the level of an English myth. Intricate, creepingly paced, almost violently understated, and set in an England sunk to Eastern Bloc levels of shabbiness and rainy suspicion, the 1979 BBC dramatization of John le Carré’s novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is neither heartwarming nor especially reassuring about men and women.
Not the first choice, one might think, for someone in need of a bit of cheering up. We’re going to stay up all night and watch the whole thing.” “Right,” said this friend, “I’ve got a bottle of whiskey and the DVD of Tinker Tailor. My uncle once told me about a visit he made to an English friend of his, who was going through a divorce.
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