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TV review: The Little Drummer Girl Episode 6

Jenni Frazer reviews the nail-biting finale to the BBC's spy thriller

November 29, 2018 16:44
Charlie and the briefcase
2 min read

The central question in The Little Drummer Girl has surely been, how far will she go?

The drummer girl in question, of course, being Charmiane Ross, otherwise known as Charlie, delivered in a knock-out performance for the past six weeks by the remarkable Florence Pugh.

Every time we think Charlie is caught like a fly in someone else’s spiderweb, she manages to astonish both us, as viewers, and her Israeli and Palestinian handlers.

On reflection, there was no good time for the BBC to have screened this potent representation of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Even though Drummer Girl is nominally set in 1979 (and written in 1983), the sad and desperate truth is that there is always bound to be some sort of action between the two sides to act as a mirror to today. Who knows how many Charlies are currently behind the scenes?