![]() ![]() Viewers in the US and the UK can stream all six episodes of The Night Manager on Amazon. For now, that tandem makes it worth watching the “Sky.” Continuing to do so, like the show itself, remains an unsolved riddle. Whether youre in the US or the UK, all youll need to stream The Night Manager is an Amazon Prime Video subscription. Benny’s entire world is turned upside down after picking up two mysterious girls who expose him to a secret world he never knew existed. Thanks to Spacek and Simmons, the show proves initially worthwhile despite being its meandering pace. The blessing and curse of streaming is that these kind of concepts have proliferated to the point where they seem to drop almost weekly, with “Night Sky” making a demand on one’s time and offering few clues – even after eight episodes – as to whether the payoff will justify it. Franklin also isn’t a particularly good liar, which makes for some uncomfortable and amusing moments as questions begin piling up. What elevates this, and provides the strongest gravitational pull to stick around, is the strength of the leads and their interaction, with Franklin fretting about Irene’s health and expressing doubt as to whether he can carry on without her. Nor does it give anything away to say that anyone hoping for closure by then should probably choose another door, as it were. Indeed, a parallel plot reveals that the Yorks are not alone in their awareness of the portal, although what that might mean – and where it leads – unfolds at a snail’s pace. “Night Sky” feels very much like another recent hybrid Amazon show, the Josh Brolin vehicle “Outer Range,” which mixes family drama with what appears to be some kind of extraterrestrial window while taking its sweet time in sprinkling out a trail of breadcrumbs. So yeah, I hope to make more movies with James, I truly hope to make more movies with Sam and with Netflix, and I made a lot of friends on this movie as well. ![]() Still, keeping it to themselves faces new challenges, with a nosy neighbor (Adam Bartley) and the arrival of a mysterious stranger (Chai Hansen) complicating their until-now pretty staid lives. When Addie tries to make a connection with her neighbor, the two begin sleeping in bed together platonically, with the innocent goal of alleviating their shared loneliness. “There’s a reason we were the ones who found this,” Irene says. They take some solace from disappearing into the shed out back and gazing out at an alien landscape, whose existence remains a closely guarded secret. Simmons, whose characters, Irene and Franklyn York, experienced a devastating personal loss in the past that still scars them. Said couple benefits enormously from being played by Sissy Spacek and especially J.K. You know that pleasant older couple across the street, who mostly keep to themselves? What if they had a portal to another planet in their backyard? That’s the out-there premise of “Night Sky,” an Amazon series that combines science fiction and mystery with that rarest of commodities – a touching love story involving an old married couple – in an intriguing if plodding format.
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