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'Black Doves' is a wry spry spy tale

Keira Knightley as Helen Webb in Black Doves.
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Keira Knightley as Helen Webb in Black Doves.

The new Netflix series Black Doves is a pulpy and stylish British spy show starring Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw. Knightly plays a politician's wife who's been secretly funneling information to a mysterious spy network for years, and Whishaw plays her old partner who's been out of the game. But when Knightley 's character gets targeted, Whishaw's returns to protect her. It's all set in London at Christmastime, so if you like your holiday cheer spiced with British wit and gunplay, Black Doves may be for you.

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Glen Weldon is a host of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast. He reviews books, movies, comics and more for the NPR Arts Desk.
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