Netflix viewers counting down to see ‘queen of period dramas kick butt’ in new spy thriller

Netflix fans person declared they ‘can’t wait’ to spot Keira Knightley return to screens arsenic a nonrecreational spy.

The six-part spy thriller Black Doves was written by Joe Barton (Giri/Haji, The Lazarus Project) and is being billed by the streaming work as ‘an aboriginal Christmas gift’.

Set against the backdrop of London astatine Christmas, the bid follows Helen Webb (Keira), a quick-witted, down-to-earth, dedicated woman and parent who is besides a nonrecreational spy.

After a decennary of passing connected her person husband’s secrets to the shadowy organisation she works for – the Black Doves – Helen’s concealed person Jason (Andrew Koji) is assassinated.

Following this shocking crook of events, her spymaster, the enigmatic Reed (Sarah Lancashire), calls successful Helen’s aged person Sam (Ben Whishaw), an assassin, to support her safe.

The brace past acceptable disconnected connected a ngo to analyse who killed Jason and why, starring them to uncover a ‘vast, interconnected conspiracy linking the murky London underworld to a looming geopolitical crisis’.

The trailer for the bid was released this week and teases the high-intensity communicative of twists and turns viewers tin expect.

It begins with Keira’s quality Helen being informed that her person has been murdered and she whitethorn person ‘compromised herself’ arsenic scenes of her successful intimate moments with him are shown.

She is past faced with gunmen storming her location but manages to combat backmost earlier being covered successful humor arsenic Sam arrives and shoots 1 of the attacker.

Hellbent connected enacting her revenge, arsenic good arsenic protecting her family, Helen and Sam bash immoderate it takes to instrumentality connected those trying to halt them from discovering the truth.

She is past seen telling an unseen idiosyncratic that if they effort and halt her, she volition ‘kill you myself’.

After tuning into the trailer, galore praised what they’d seen.

‘Finally the queen of play dramas successful a modern time communicative arsenic a spy,’ tv_movie.edits92 commented connected YouTube.

‘Sooo bully to spot her bash enactment and footwear immoderate butt!’ Trusha_tungare shared.

‘James Bond 007 and John Wick combined… I’ll beryllium watching this,’ ethancardinal1876 added.

Shots released from Netflix past week besides showed a blood-splattered Keira successful a car alongside a sombre-looking Ben, portion Happy Valley prima Sarah has chopped her blonde locks into a choky bob for the fierce role.

It besides looks to beryllium a Christmassy London film – with a heart-pumping thriller twist, of people – arsenic Keira is seen looking implicit the Thames arsenic snowfall falls each around.

Netflix teased the movie arsenic starring the 3 actors ‘as you’ve ne'er seen them before’.

It’s harmless to say, fans are buzzing with the tense teaser and electrical cast, arsenic @BorkorElse wrote: ‘Keira, Ben & Sarah. It’s going to beryllium epic.’

‘Cant hold for it to travel out,’ wrote @maxtheartist_ portion a suspected Happy Valley instrumentality archiepops wrote connected Instagram: ‘Sarah Lancashire! I don’t adjacent attraction what it’s about!’

This comes aft Sarah bagged a champion starring histrion Bafta for her portrayal of no-nonsense Sergeant Catherine Cawood successful the swansong of Sally Wainwright’s Yorkshire-set thriller, Happy Valley.

Fans were successful bits aft the last occurrence aired connected BBC One successful February past year, leaving a large aged Sarah Lancashire spread successful galore bull drama-loving hearts.

Let’s anticipation this tin capable it… Black Doves has already been greenlit for a 2nd season.

Black Doves is streaming from December 5 connected Netflix.

This nonfiction was primitively published connected October 15.

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