Amazon’s <em>Informer</em> Deftly Mines the War on Terror
The new British series is a thoughtful, detailed, compelling character study of people caught up in a knotty conflict.
You know how the saying goes: You wait years for a gripping British counterterrorism drama and then two come along at once. First the BBC’s in October, all clenched teeth and joylessness and impossibly frequent explosions, riveting viewers and somehow scoring a Golden Globe for its star, Richard Madden. Arriving amid more muted fanfare on Amazon last week was , which is a shame because it’s easily the better of the two. If sweeps in broad, cartoonish strokes, agonizes over the details of life in modern London. It parses the dynamics of council estates,
