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The Honourable Woman: episode recaps

Gabriel Tate recaps Hugo Blick’s Middle East thriller
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    The Honourable Woman recap: episode eight – The Paring Knife

    The final episode of the most satisfying TV series in years is an utterly gripping, triumphant realisation of Hugo Blick’s vision
  • Maggie Gyllenhaal As Nessa Stein.

    The Honourable Woman recap: episode seven – The Hollow Wall

    Gabriel Tate: TThe shocking penultimate instalment is littered with casualties after a terrorist attack triggers a domino effect, but who will be left standing?

  • Emerging from the sidelines … Atika Halabi (Lubna Azabel).

    The Honourable Woman recap: episode six – The Mother Line

    Gabriel Tate: It's all cranking up for the climax and perhaps we're finally beginning to make sense of what's going on. This week's highlight: a devastating performance from Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Maggie Gyllenhaal as Nessa Stein

    The Honourable Woman recap: episode five – Two Hearts

    Gabriel Tate: Kasim's identity is revealed, deals are made, and exposing positive prejudice puts someone in the wrong place at the wrong time, as the drama finally finds its pace

  • Maggie Gyllenhaal The Honourable Woman

    The Honourable Woman recap: episode four – The Ribbon Cutter

    Gabriel Tate: A harrowing instalment where the series comes of age, as one long flashback answers many of the questions posed so far

  • Tobias Menzies as Nathanial Bloom in The Honourable Woman

    The Honourable Woman recap: episode three – The Killing Call

    How much longer can Hugo Blick keep providing narrative dead ends, and are the compelling espionage storylines enough to keep us hooked, asks Gabriel Tate

  • Maggie Gyllenhaal as Nessa Stein in episode two of The Honourable Woman

    The Honourable Woman recap: episode two – The Unfaithful Husband

    Gabriel Tate: After an episode mostly featuring people talking in rooms, an unexpected assassination is a brilliantly tense change of pace

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    The Honourable Woman recap: episode one – The Empty Chair

    Gabriel Tate: Hugo Blick's new Middle East thriller weaved two whodunnits around the most intractable political issue of the day, but can we really trust anyone?

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