Is Olivia Colman leaving The Night Manager, and is Angela dead?

We certainly knew entering the season 2 finale of The Night Manager that there were going to be some key losses, with Teddy being among them.

However, at the same time the Prime Video series took out Angela Burr! The onetime handler of Jonathan Pine (Tom Hiddleston) was gunned down in a rather brutal way near the end of the episode, which does create an even bigger cost for an inevitable showdown between Pine and Richard Roper (Hugh Laurie) moving forward.

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So why make this move at all? Speaking to Variety, creator David Farr made it clear that he understood fully that a lot of viewers would have a huge reaction to this decision:

I know, this is the biggest crime we committed.
But what I will say is that unlike Teddy’s death, which was a complete inevitability and I don’t think the story works without it, Angela’s death was a choice. It was about making a bold choice. From a story point of view, I felt she had unbelievably strong stories in both seasons. In the first one, she is an operational handler, but she’s much more than that. She’s a good angel for Pine. That question of will he stay loyal to her or will he possibly get lured by the Roper seduction was just so beautiful. In the second season, she’s made this quite flawed decision, obviously, which she has to make good on once she realizes what she’s done. Her relationship with Pine is not as pure. It’s all messy and tough and they don’t even end on a good note, which is tragic now. But what I didn’t want to happen very simply was for her to become just a handler with nothing more to do. That’s the last thing I wanted, and Olivia’s very in demand. So it felt like without a really pressing imperative for her moving forward, it might be way more daring and more honest to do what we’ve done.

There is certainly no denying that you want to give Colman the best material possible, especially when she is one of the greatest actresses currently working today. In a way, it is better to have a quick ending for her so she can go on and pursue other projects.

Related – Is The Night Manager season 3 going to happen over at Amazon?

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