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Black Doves is a 2024 action & adventure mystery crime TV series, starring Keira Knightley, Ben Whishaw and Sarah Lancashire.
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- posts span Nov 29, 2024 to Nov 6, 2026
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60 of 171 · most liked firstI had a lot of thoughts about s2 of Netflix's Black Doves, with Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw, but also about what an increasing pain it is to reengage with TV shows that take two years off between seasons:
neutral · AI labelView post →Black Doves series 2 available to watch absolutely now right this second
neutral · AI labelView post →Rewatched S1 Black Doves, enjoyed it greatly again, top tier cast, Eleanor & Williams rule etc. 2 things: 1) New season Nov 5 (haven’t seen, excited) 2) watch Joe Barton’s earlier Netflix show Giri/Haji & thank me later! Well drawn characters, fab cast, tied to twisty crime story (in London & Japan)
positive · AI labelView post →I'm happy to see Netflix announce a November 5 premiere date for the second season of "Black Doves," a smartly written, wonderfully acted assassination thriller, but this is 100% yet another show that won't be able to recover the momentum after an endless, needless gap between seasons.
neutral · AI labelView post →Forget 'Slow Horses' - with its excellent second season, 'Black Doves' remains the best spy show on TV.
positive · AI labelView post →Season 2 of Black Doves is now available and is just as great as the first season. I was skeptical about where they'd take the story, but the show has introduced new layers and conflicts that are so interesting. The entire cast is great, but Ben Whishaw is 🤌🏽.
positive · AI labelView post →Am I the last to know Black Doves is back this week? I v much enjoyed the first series so I’m happy.
positive · AI labelView post →I keep thinking "Black Doves" is titled "Dead Doves," which, yeah, would be a whole different kind of show
neutral · AI labelView post →Release Roundup, November 2026. | Name | Series | Date of Release | Platform | Genre | Country of Origin | | --------------------------------------------------------- | -------------- | --------------- | ------------------- | ----------------------------------------- | ----------------------- | | The Gilded Age | Season 4 |…
neutral · AI labelView post →I liked Black Doves but Giri/Haji was so great and so underappreciated. It was nice to see Takehiro Hira show up in Shogun.
positive · AI labelView post →I have a much harder time not only finding anything that interests me, but getting into something once I've started it. Not to mention maintaining interest to power through the whole thing. I frequently leave things half finished now. Whether this says more about the quality of streaming of late, or changes in my brain chemistry, I cannot say. The last two shows I recall making it through were *The Madness*, and *Black Doves*; both on Netflix. Oh, and I can't get enough of Lioness. That show…
neutral · AI labelView post →Full service journalism from TV critic Alan Sepinwall, who confirms that despite the appearance of a Christmas tree in the trailer (and the November launch date), season two of BLACK DOVES, unlike season one, isn't set at the holidays. www.whatsalanwatching.com/review-black...
neutral · AI labelView post →This is a profile of Kathryn Hunter, right? She plays Lenny the gangster in Black Doves. The second series of which starts tomorrow. Why then is there no mention of the role in this whopping great article? Or AM I going mad? www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
neutral · AI labelView post →Your next fav Brit show is Black Doves. Keira Knightly aging into being able to do up someone akin to who we saw Charlize Theron portray in Atomic Blonde. And I so wish for a spin-off centered on Williams and Eleanor:
positive · AI labelView post →Lazy day. Bing watched Black Doves on Netflix. Easy to spend the day with Keira Knightly in a new Christmas show.
positive · AI labelView post →late to the show, but I really enjoyed Black Doves on Netflix. Performances were lovely and it looked good.
positive · AI labelView post →Will Sharpe Transforms Into Mozart For Sky Limited Series ‘Amadeus’ From ‘Black Doves’ Writer.
neutral · AI labelView post →Every review I've seen for Black Doves S2 includes some mention of needing to suspend one's disbelief, and it's like, yeah, it's a spy show?? That's literally the genre??
neutral · AI labelView post →I see the Paradise TV show is returning this month & I'm sure it will once again be a very weird watch. (The shows I managed to watch in the year after Kevin died were such odd choices, considering. Paradise, Slow Horses, Black Doves, Andor, The Residence.) (All deal with death/grief quite a bit!)
neutral · AI labelView post →I adore Black Doves. www.rogerebert.com/streaming/bl...
positive · AI labelView post →Name a performer you are always happy to see *or hear* in a film or tv series. (Keira Knightley especially, but yeah Ben Whishaw could...ok never mind 😬🙃) #BlackDoves
neutral · AI labelView post →Black Doves on Netflix with Keira Knightly and Ben Whishaw. Black Sails is a fantastic pirate show, with a mix of historical and fictional characters - like Blackbeard and characters from Treasure Island. Also on Netflix now. It came out like 10 years ago.
neutral · AI labelView post →Black Doves: Season 2 | Official Trailer | Netflix.
neutral · AI labelView post →Here's most of what I watched in 2025(not all released in 2025). **Movies** - A House of Dynamite - The Amateur - The Bad Guys 2 - Ballerina - Black Bag - Blue Moon - Bring Her Back - Captain America Brave New World - Cunk on Life - Elio - F1 - Friendship - Good Boy - Good Fortune - The Gorge - London Calling - M3GAN 2.0 - Fantastic Four First Steps - Materialists - Mickey 17 - Minecraft Movie - Mission Impossible - The Final Reckoning - The Naked Gun - Nobody 2 - Novocaine - Primitive War -…
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched Slow Horses a while back and now started watching Black Doves. Good so far - first episode The more I read John Le Carré the more I realize how much he has influenced basically all spy dramas. #BlackDoves #SlowHorses #JohnLeCarre
positive · AI labelView post →* **Creature Commandos** (ongoing) - Liking it so far. * **Black Doves** (ongoing) - Excellent. * **The Old Man** S1 (ongoing) - Losing interest fast. * **Lioness S2** (finished) - Disappointing. Degraded into a nonsensical and preachy action schlock. None of the intimate emotional suspense was there. It had chances, but wasted them all. * **Final Space S2** (ongoing) - Why did I find this show after its cancellation? So good. * **Arkane S2** (ongoing) - So far, good. * **The Diplomat S2**…
positive · AI labelView post →'Black Doves' review: Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw dazzle in killer spy caper.
neutral · AI labelView post →‘Black Doves’ Review: Season 2 Sticks to Its Guns in Keira Knightley’s Excellent, Existential Spy Thriller.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching Black Doves Series 2 forgot about this pair! they really need their own series #BlackDoves
positive · AI labelView post →That was a good first episode of the new series of Black Doves. I’m going to have to ration these. I could very easily binge the lot tonight.
positive · AI labelView post →It's a quirkier, dreamier, more unexpected show than Black Doves, but the real secret is that it includes people that you know are underappreciated (MacDonald), that you start immediately appreciating (Sawai), and that you realize you've never had the chance to appreciate (Hira). Just so watchable
neutral · AI labelView post →We watched 'Black Doves' on Netflix and it was excellent: drama, humour, a decent mystery and excellent acting. Hoping there'll be a second series. Also, and as always, I've dipped back into my favourite episodes of DARK, also on Netflix. Still my favourite show of all time and the best thing I've seen on TV in the last 50 years.
positive · AI labelView post →Black Doves, the netflix spy show, is fun because it feels like someone in the Slow Horses apple spy show would be watching it on the telly in Slough House and complaining
positive · AI labelView post →TV - our 'regulars' at the moment are: *A Man On The Inside*, *What We Do In The Shadows*, *Silo*, *Lower Decks* & *Shrinking*. The highlight of those this week was definitely the scene in *Shrinking* s02e06 with Alice & Louis. Extremely well done all round. Otherwise on TV, we've just started the original *Wolf Hall*, which expects you to sit up and take notice, but rewards that no end (as it should with this cast, and the writing). And then there is *Dune: Prophesy* - which I am still unsure…
neutral · AI labelView post →Black Doves S2 is extremely fun and it is also a great outerwear show. Look at these coats! (Costumes by Ian Fulcher)
positive · AI labelView post →Black Doves co-stars, Welsh actress Gabrielle Creevy and Irish actress Ella Lily Hyland have hailed the importance and “privilege” of representing their accents in the hit spy-thriller.
neutral · AI labelView post →#WhatMakesMeSmartIs That I watched the whole series one of Black Doves yesterday. Awaiting series two this Thursday on Netflix
positive · AI labelView post →Very much looking forward to the new series of Black Doves.
neutral · AI labelView post →That murder paddington show was star studded, brilliant and totally ridiculous trash. 10/10 for Black Doves.
positive · AI labelView post →I just finished Counterpart, very good. The premise lets several actors play two different, but related roles. J. K. Simmons knocks it out of the park, showing his range. Shrinking, not something I'd usually watch, but Harrison Ford is in it, so I gave it a shot. Pleasantly surprised. I'm currently watching Party Down, which I found after watching Severance, Adam Scott is in it. It's a 20-year-old comedy about catering. I'm two episodes into Black Doves. It's good enough to keep me watching,…
neutral · AI labelView post →I see this is going around again and since I just watched Black Doves, I’m trying to imagine how that would work out & if it would be like on the show . . . “You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?”
neutral · AI labelView post →A few observations from recent tv watching: -Keira Knightley in Black Doves is the best I've ever seen her -Will Forte's show Bodkin is terrific mystery watching and it's in Ireland so you can't go wrong -Squid Game 2 is better than the first season
neutral · AI labelView post →Shows this week: Finished Shrinking, which had a great and earned finale. I still struggle some with this show as the characters feel more like characters than people, but it’s so well done I really don’t mind. Working: Black Doves, Squid Game, Fallout, Nobody Wants This, Somebody Somewhere
neutral · AI labelView post →Heretic (the one with Hugh Grant in it). I'm not sure any of it stands up to much scrutiny after watching, but it's an enjoyable watch when it's happening. I'm halfway through Black Doves. It's recognisably a Joe Barton affair (the last thing I saw of his was The Lazarus Project, and BD has the same character archetypes, and the same strangely old cars). The latest episode of Silo. Continues to be slow-paced, and stupid at times. Like the book, it feels like Young Adult stuff masquerading…
neutral · AI labelView post →If you’re as obsessed with the new @netflix.com show BLACK DOVES as I am, you’ll love my second novel NINE DASH LINE. It follows a female spy on a mission in the South China Sea and is packed with twists and turns. #blackdoves #books
neutral · AI labelView post →Ooh, new series of Black Doves just landed on Netflix! 😎
neutral · AI labelView post →Another +1 for Slow Horses (books and show); I also enjoyed the show Black Doves on Netflix but that is a show only and not a book to my knowledge
positive · AI labelView post →This isn't 'less believable' so much as it's lazy, unimaginative writing. Right now I'm almost done with Black Doves [Netflix] It's completely ridiculous, but there's in-show logic. This might just be me, but I can't enjoy a show with plot holes that big.
negative · AI labelView post →average to bad TV shows I have watched this year: Wednesday S2 ➡️ Black Doves S1 ➡️ Your Friends & Neighbours ➡️ Peacemaker S2 ➡️ Platonic S2 ➡️ Dune: Prophecy ➡️ The Witcher S4 ↘️ The Morning Show S4 ↘️ Stranger Things S5 ↘️
negative · AI labelView post →Revisiting Black Doves because it's a holiday show, after all. Very festive. Maybe I'll watch Hawkeye later. What other seasons (or entire shows) are set around Christmas and/or New Year's? Any faves? (I'm pondering.)
neutral · AI labelView post →Black Doves was an alright show elevated by an absolutely electric Ben Whishaw performance. But I'll watch anything he's in.
neutral · AI labelView post →Keira Knightley is getting back into action and filming scenes for #BlackDoves Season 2 for Netflix! See the set photos
neutral · AI labelView post →TV Series 25 of 2025: Black Doves. We enjoyed this London based spy drama. It got a bit confusing towards the end but the performances by Keira Knightley and especially Ben Whishaw were great. His triggerman Sam steals the show. Seems there will be a series 2 #tvsky #blackdoves
positive · AI labelView post →That's on my list - it might be next! I just finished Black Doves, which I did not expect to be a feel-good show, but it kind of is
positive · AI labelView post →There's one bit of casting in BLACK DOVES that's so terrifically inspired it seems almost a shame that it's wasted as a glorified cameo. (The rest of the show is pretty fantastic, too.)
positive · AI labelView post →Watching Black Doves on Netflix is fun because if you close your eyes it sounds like a show about Paddington as an assassin.
positive · AI labelView post →#BlackDoves is a #Christmas show. That is all. www.imdb.com/title/tt2799...
neutral · AI labelView post →Binged Black Doves on Netflix over 2 nights. Was pretty good.
positive · AI labelView post →The problem with the current series of Black Doves is that I’m fairly sure the spouse of the Prime Minister gets a security detail.
negative · AI labelView post →This reviewer gets the cartoon unbelievability and enjoyment of Black Doves just right. Meanwhile trichologists everywhere watch in order to study Ben Whishaw’s head more closely. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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