He definitely looked dead at the end of season 6, having collapsed with a heart attack on his grandfather’s kitchen floor. Especially when his foot stopped twitching. But then, how dead can a fictional British spy ever really be?
No sooner had season 6 ended on that knife edge than we were treated to a teaser trailer for season 7, which you can watch below. The preview opens tantalizingly, with Standish standing in Jackson Lamb’s office asking: “Have you heard something? About River?” “Yeah, funnily enough I got a postcard,” retorts Lamb.
Love and hugs…” So, if that doesn’t open the door for a River to run wild, I don’t know what does. No matter, we’ve got other fish to spy. Two things to know: the new series is already in the can, and while there’s no official release date yet, industry expectations point to fall 2027.
So, what fresh calamities await our favorite band of double-oh-for-heavens-sakes? MI5’s interminable game of geopolitical tit-for-tat with Russia rumbles on. Diana Taverner reveals that Vassily, the shadowy Russian intelligence chief and her opposite number, “is on British soil”.
Until now, Vassily has been little more than a name and a gravelly voice at the end of a secure phone line to Taverner’s office. Now, it seems, he’s out in the open—and making a spectacularly unsubtle mess of things on British soil. And not just any old patch of sovereign territory.
One explosion in the teaser looks suspiciously like the MI5 building at Millbank. Diana Taverner, usually more comfortable pulling strings from behind a desk, appears to be getting her hands dirty. We see her moving furtively through a crowded market in sunglasses and a bomber jacket, before sitting anxiously in a laundrette as Lamb tells her: “It takes some fucking balls going after you.” The hunter, it seems, has become the hunted.
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