Reviews In the Nick of Time: The Spies of Warsaw

I see that BBCA is showing The Spies of Warsaw, with David Tennant, this very evening, and I thought I’d do my best to warn you off it, since I saw it on a transatlantic flight just last week.
The Spies of Warsawis based on a novel by Alan Furst that I very much like, along with his other World War II thrillers, so I had hopes for the TV version. Sadly, this is a classic BBC production, which is to say that it’s static, stodgy, low budget, and low-key.
The screenwriters made every attempt not t...