Review of Black Doves: Keira Knightley's spy series on Netflix is a classy and exciting watch.

Review of Black Doves: Netflix's new spy series, which stars Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw, is significantly better than the plethora of other espionage shows available.Ben Whishaw and Keira Knightley play a stylish housewife and her lesbian best friend who are also secret agents in the nearly criminally entertaining new Netflix comedy Black Doves. Like the play, which frequently switches between tones with the skill of a circus act, they straddle two identities. Black Doves is a dark comedy with a cheeky sense of humor, a sophisticated espionage thriller, and when necessary, a somber home drama. Its two main performances and its self-aware yet charmingly honest writing are what propel it forward.Knightley portrays Helen Webb, a contented woman who resides in London with her spouse Wallace, the British defense secretary, and their two kids.

Helen becomes entangled in a conspiracy involving foreign espionage services and a global criminal syndicate after the man she had been covertly meeting on the side—"it was love," she claims—is killed one evening on the banks of the Thames. Helen isn't precisely a stay-at-home mother because she was placed in the life of Wallace (Andrew Buchan), a rising politician at the time, ten years ago by the Black Doves, a covert mercenary organization.Helen's cold handler, Mrs. Reed (Sarah Lancashire), saw Wallace as the ideal choice to be the Doves' mole at the very center of power because she (rightly) believed that he may advance in the British government and eventually become prime minister. Helen is recruited by Mrs. Reed, who informs her that the organization is capitalist rather than ideological. However, espionage for a secret organization might get boring after ten years, just like any other profession. By starting an affair with a man named Jason (Andrew Koji), Helen found herself running away from her marriage and endangering her life. Mrs. Reed sends in backup in the form of Sam (Whishaw), a "triggerman" with a conscience, after his murder makes Helen a prime target.