SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers for “Black Doves” Season 2, now streaming on Netflix.
\n\nKeira Knightley is back as super spy Helen Webb in Season 2 of “Black Doves,” alongside Ben Whishaw as her troubled colleague Sam Young and Sarah Lancashire as her stoic spymaster Reed.
\n\nThe show, created by Joe Barton, returns with plenty of action, blood and bodies as Reed goes missing, Sam makes a Faustian pact with a shady benefactor and Helen’s secret identity is almost exposed — a threat that’s all the more serious given her new role in Number 10 Downing Street now that her husband, Wallace (Andrew Buchan), has become Prime Minister.
\n\nWith Season 2 out now on Netflix, Knightley and Barton sat down with Variety to discuss why the showrunner chose to focus on Reed’s backstory this season, how the series differs from Apple TV’s London spy thriller “Slow Horses” — and the one character Knightley really wanted to kill.
\n\nJoe Barton: It organically came out the storytelling process of Reed’s backstory, and the idea of the sins of the past coming forward and everyone suffering for them. And I wanted to do a “Berlin in the ‘80s” spy thing.
\n\nBarton…
Original source: https://variety.com/v/tv/