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When a man wakes up in the Australian outback with no memory, he must use the few clues he has to discover his identity before his past catches up with him. When a man wakes up in the Australian outback with no memory, he must use the few clues he has to discover his identity before his past catches up with him. When a man wakes up in the Australian outback with no memory, he must use the few clues he has to discover his identity before his past catches up with him.

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HBO Max continues stealth drops of some of the best drama mini-series on television. Last year highlights included “The Head” and “ Station Eleven ,” and they start 2022 strongly with the fantastic “The Tourist,” a twisty tale that plays like an Aussie version of “ Fargo .” With sharp dialogue, clever plotting, and career-best work from Jamie Dornan and Danielle Macdonald , this is a great little thriller, a show that constantly keeps you guessing and entertained in equal measure.

The “ Belfast ” and “ Fifty Shades of Grey ” star plays an unnamed man (at least for a while) who is driving through the very remote Australian outback. He stops at a station to use the bathroom, banters with the guy behind the counter, and hits the road again. Looking in the rearview mirror, he sees a truck gaining on him with remarkable speed. The Man twists off the road to avoid it and the trucker follows, revealing through a POV from his cab that this is very intentional—he’s trying to kill this tourist. They race through the desert until The Man’s car crashes. He wakes up in a hospital with no memory of who he is or how he got there.

Enter a small-town officer named Helen Chambers (Macdonald), engaged to an awful man named Ethan ( Greg Larsen ) and thrust into a mystery about who this handsome Irishman is in a hospital bed. When The Man finds a note with a time and a location in his pocket, he heads to a small town called Burnt Ridge, where he meets a woman named Luci ( Shalom Brune-Franklin ) who might know about his past, ends up crossing paths with a sociopath ( Ólafur Darri Ólafsson ) who clearly wants him dead, and gets a phone call from a man who’s been buried underground. And then things get even weirder.

Created by the people behind the excellent “ The Missing ” (which aired stateside on Starz), the writing on “The Tourist” is a metronomic back and forth between reveals and how those reveals propel the narrative in a new direction. Pushing their way through all the chaos are Dornan and Macdonald, both phenomenal. Dornan finds a quirky, unsettled way to play a man who doesn’t know who he is without resorting to the cliché of the lost soul. If anything, he leans into more of a blank slate interpretation of amnesia, playing a guy who’s more open to what comes next because he can’t remember what came before. And Macdonald is charming and so incredibly likable that she becomes the heart of a show that can be cold at times.

Echoes of “ Memento ” and “Fargo” aside, “The Tourist” also has its own quirky personality. Some of those quirks get a bit extreme in late-season episodes in ways I can’t spoil, but the show is never boring. It’s a reminder that the Dornan who was so great in “ The Fall ” is still out there, and I hope it leads him to more bizarre, challenging roles like this one. There’s an argument to be made that there’s an even-better 100-minute movie in this six-episode mini-series, but that’s not the world we’re in right now. A story like this has a better chance to be told in the TV system than the mid-budget film one, and the writers don’t drag their feet or spin their wheels like so many streaming thrillers. They’re constantly moving our hero forward, keeping us uncertain about his past and even his moral center.

Some will argue that “The Tourist” gets too convoluted and I’ll admit that I enjoyed the playful uncertainty of the first half of the season more than the intensity of the second half. Although the show does get deeper in how it unpacks lies we tell ourselves and those we listen to from other people. It turns out that everyone on "The Tourist" has a secret or two, and almost all of them could use a car accident to reset the hole they've dug for themselves. 

I'm not sure how intentional it is but the show never stopped reminding me of some of my favorite early Coen films—the noir danger of “ Blood Simple ,” the open roads of “ Raising Arizona ” (and a bearded hunter who seems unkillable), Macdonald’s very Marge Gunderson character—and yet these nods to greats are embedded in a breakneck plot that never slows down enough to distract from its own inspired storytelling. Take the trip.

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In The Tourist, "The Man" (Jamie Dornan) wakes up in a small town hospital in the Australian outback with no idea who he is or how he got there. HBO hide caption

In The Tourist, "The Man" (Jamie Dornan) wakes up in a small town hospital in the Australian outback with no idea who he is or how he got there.

Ever since the birth of mass communications, our culture has been haunted by the idea of amnesia. In high-class books by the likes of George Orwell or Milan Kundera , forgetting becomes a political metaphor for the erasure of truth. Things are less ambitious in pop entertainments like Memento or the Jason Bourne series . There, memory-loss is less a metaphor than a motor — a gimmick to drive the story forward.

This motor purrs like a Ferrari in The Tourist , a hit BBC series playing on HBO Max. Written by the Williams brothers, Harry and Jack — best known here for The Missing and Baptiste — this funny, suspenseful six-part thriller doesn't merely keep us guessing. It keeps its amnesiac hero guessing, too. He knows even less about his own story than we do.

A bearded, muscled-up Jamie Dornan stars as a T-shirt clad Irishman who gets in a car accident and winds up in a small town hospital in the Australian outback. Known simply as "The Man," he doesn't know who he is or how he got there. But soon after he leaves the hospital, he knows one thing for sure: Somebody wants to kill him.

As he seeks to find out who's after him and why, he's helped by two very different women. Luci (Shalom Brune-Franklin) is a waitress who we aren't quite sure what to make of. In contrast, it's easy to trust probationary constable Helen Chambers, played by Danielle Macdonald. Helen's a newbie cop who struggles with her weight and with a fiancé who speaks of her appearance with such passive-aggressive meanness that I kept hoping he'd become one of the show's murder victims.

While The Man's search for his identity is grippingly plotted, the show lets the action breathe. It takes time to enjoy his encounters with a wide range of oddball types, be it a goofy chess-playing pilot, a Greek mobster, the affably nutty woman who offers him lodging, or the enormous, cowboy-hatted hitman who has the self-satisfied theatricality of an escapee from a Tarantino movie. That said, The Man knows he must keep moving to stay alive.

For all The Tourist 's inventiveness — Episode 5 is a trip — it reminds us that even good pop culture is often derivative. The show's opening car crash sequence mimics the Steven Spielberg movie Duel . More importantly, the Williams brothers are pretty clearly doing a Down Under riff on Fargo . Their series offers the same blend of violence and barbed humor, the same mythologizing of bleak, underpopulated places, and the same cavalcade of viciousness and folly that brings out the heroism in an ordinary person.

The show's moral center is Helen, who, in Macdonald's sensational performance, has our sympathy from the get-go. Her work is so scene-stealingly good that I would call this a career-making performance if I hadn't already said this about Macdonald's electric work as an aspiring New Jersey rapper in the indie film Patti Cake$ .

Helen's transparent goodness makes her the perfect counterpoint to The Man, a handsome hunk who's a mystery, even to himself. It's a great role for Dornan, who, earlier in his career, had a slightly synthetic prettiness that made him ideal for creepy characters like the S&M billionaire in Fifty Shades of Grey . Here, he's a bit older, thicker, and rougher. And just as Brad Pitt often seems liberated when his good looks are masked a bit, Dornan gives his best performance as a man who isn't sure whether or not he's the hero of his own life.

Over the course of the six episodes, The Man struggles to learn whether, back before his accident, he was a good guy or a bad guy. And if he had been a villain, does he have to stay one, even after he starts remembering his past? I won't reveal what he discovers, though I feel obligated to say that you won't get a definitive answer this season. You'll have to watch Season 2 of The Tourist , not yet made, which I bet you will be more than happy to do.

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The actor plays an amnesiac in a deadly race to figure out his identity in this six-hour slice of Australian pulp fiction.

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Content bloat on cable and streaming is such an apparently incurable epidemic that even shows that play as lean and mean genre exercises are stuck oozing outside of their deserved boundaries — as if once there’s no marketplace for an idea to be conveyed at 90 minutes, might as well just go forever.

Something like Netflix’s True Story , which would have been an arthouse hit as a brisk John Dahl-directed theatrical thriller, instead became an instantly forgotten Netflix series, because that’s how it could get produced. Significantly better on every level, but still in need of a robust trim, is HBO Max ‘s The Tourist . Ideally, this would have been an Outback-set B-movie probably helmed by somebody like Phillip Noyce. Instead, it arrives on streaming as a six-hour drama replete with illogical misdirects, a second half that’s far less engaging than the first and a disappointing assortment of false conclusions.

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Airdate: Thursday, March 3 (HBO Max)

Cast: Jamie Dornan, Danielle Macdonald, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson

Creators: Harry and Jack Williams

A story like this should be told without an ounce of fat. Yet even with its occasional excesses, The Tourist is a mostly taut, pretension-lite mystery with a vivid setting, a few surprises and a great trio of lead performances from Jamie Dornan , Danielle Macdonald and Shalom Brune-Franklin.

Created by Harry and Jack Williams and directed half by Chris Sweeney and half by Daniel Nettheim, The Tourist begins with what will prove to be its best set-piece, which isn’t always a great idea but in this case serves to get viewers well and truly hooked.

In a remote corner of rural Australia, a man (Dornan) with an Irish accent and no name stops for gas and a bathroom before resuming his drive. Before you can say “Hey, that’s the plot of Duel !” a truck emerges on the horizon, approaches the man’s car and tries to run it off the road. An intense pursuit ensues, all within the first 10 minutes, climaxing in the man waking up in a hospital with complete amnesia. Shot with acrid, epic scope by Ben Wheeler and edited without relief by Emma Oxley, it’s a sequence that is unique despite its familiar elements — one that’s so good that you probably won’t be offended by how little sense it makes once the show puts all of its cards on the table.

The Man doesn’t remember his name, his profession or why he was driving alone in a beat-up car on a stretch of road connecting nowhere to nowhere else, but his presence draws immediate attention. Offering benign curiosity is Probationary Constable Helen Chambers (Macdonald), trying to make a transition to legitimate policing after tiring of menial duties as a traffic cop. Offering more menacing curiosity is Billy Nixon (Ólafur Darri Ólafsson), a hulking figure with a bushy beard, a rumbling voice, a questionable American accent and a blood-red cowboy hat. And it’s hard to read the intentions of diner waitress Luci (Brune-Franklin), who may be attracted to The Man because of his resemblance to Jamie Dornan, or else she has ulterior motives.

For the first few episodes, The Tourist is wonderfully spare. A couple of secondary characters pass in and out, but the story is mostly The Man, Helen, Luci and Billy, any one of whom could be a threat to the others. As the Williams brothers open the story up, it invariably becomes less interesting and more reliant on heaping doses of exposition. We meet characters including an odd detective played by Damon Herriman and some unsavory Greek gangsters. All of the characters are in the middle of their own identity crises, and while The Man is the only one who literally doesn’t know who he is, each person here is pondering existential questions about whether people can change; whether that change is a matter of personal choice; and whether it’s as simple as forging a passport or moving to a new country or making up different origin stories involving your mother or father.

From the too-clever-by-half backwards storytelling of Rellik to the structural mendacity of Liar , the Williams brothers are good at high-concept thrillers driven by tricky plot mechanics, and this fits that category more than other Two Brothers Pictures creations like the tormented The Missing . The more gaps in The Man’s story they expose, the more interesting The Tourist is; the more those gaps get filled in, the less interesting the resulting shape of the puzzle feels.

None of the answers is exactly infuriating and some of them play very well in the moment — the fifth episode is a straight-up backstory dump, but the creators find a way to make it amusing — but the more distance you get from the full story, the more you may find that very little holds together. It’s possible to concentrate on the occasional shootouts, a flimsy-but-taut storyline lifted from the Ryan Reynolds movie Buried and one stunning outback vista after another, and still be limitedly bothered by lapses in common sense.

It helps that this is probably the funniest of the Williams brothers thrillers, a reminder that as producers their credits also include the very fine Back to Life and the spectacular Fleabag . If you think the plot strains credulity, so do many of the characters, and there are crackling exchanges of dialogue, silly pieces of flirtation and enough quirky and outsized figures to make it clear that if Duel was the series’ table-setting inspiration, most of what follows is basically Fargo with a greater risk of kangaroos.

Dornan is probably too hunky to be inherently ideal as the Hitchcockian Everyman, but The Man is a savvy encapsulation of Dornan’s varied skills, especially those he’s been showcasing in his projects from the past year-ish. He has compelling chemistry with both Macdonald and Brune-Franklin, he’s generally convincing as a sturdy action lead and he has an underlying menace that lets you wonder if the man that The Man used to be might not be so virtuous. Best of all — and this will not shock the Barb and Star hive — Dornan is an adroit comic performer, whether it’s expressing Irish-accented confusion about a fluffy stuffed koala or any of the bickering that characterizes The Man’s relationships with Helen and Luci. He weathers all of the reveals about his character, up to the finale’s conclusive twists. It’s just a darned good performance in a show that hinges on its lead.

Macdonald is, at some points, nearly a co-lead and the Patti Cake$ star brings nervous humor and the real emotional hook to the story, maintaining the character’s integrity in the face of a sometimes sweet, mostly unappealing engagement to Greg Larsen’s brutally passive-aggressive Ethan. I wish somebody had written more actual traits for Brune-Franklin’s Luci, but the simmering interactions with Dornan keep the show going through its slower parts. Herriman’s guessing-game strangeness and Ólafsson’s garrulous intimidation are responsible for the show’s most Coen Brothers-y elements.

At six hours, The Tourist ‘s focus wavers, but its momentum remains solid; in a spring of self-important ripped-from-headlines TV storytelling, I appreciated its pulpy drive. And that “Shouldn’t this be a couple of hours shorter?” sensation? Well, I guess that’s just a permanent condition.

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The Tourist review – Jamie Dornan is intense in explosively entertaining outback thriller

An Irishman wakes up in Australia with amnesia in this pulse-pounding series packed with humour and philosophical questions

F anging it down an outback road when he is rammed by a truck driver from hell, Jamie Dornan experiences a terrible accident that gives him amnesia – making him forget about all that bondage paraphernalia from Fifty Shades of Grey .

In the explosively entertaining six-part series The Tourist, created and written by Harry and Jack Williams, the Irish actor and former Hugo Boss and Calvin Klein studmuffin plays a louche loner who can’t remember who is he, what he is doing in Australia or why he appears to have “kill me” stamped figuratively speaking across his forehead.

Dornan joins a coterie of famous foreign actors who have been plonked in the thick of arid, unforgiving Australian land and left to fry in the sun for our dramatic amusement. See also: Gary Bond in Wake in Fright , who drank a lot of beer and went mad; Dennis Hopper in Mad Dog Morgan , who drank a lot of moonshine and went mad; Johnathon Schaech in Welcome to Woop Woop , who spent a lot of time with the locals and went mad; and soon to be Zac Efron in Gold, who, the trailer suggests, finds gold in them thar desert and then goes mad.

Come to think of it, Dornan’s character in The Tourist – billed as “The Man” – is pretty sane compared with these rather rabid fellows. He’s like Guy Pearce in Memento in that he’s determined but displaced (in this instance geographically as well as mentally) and constantly banging against the walls of his own mind. If the whole being rammed into near-oblivion wasn’t enough, “The Man” is also a mite concerned when, after meeting the friendly and charming Luci (Shalom Brune-Franklin) at a diner, there appears to be another (rather spectacular) attempt on his life.

The show’s central mystery has something to do with a man who has been buried alive and calls “The Man” from inside a barrel, begging to be found post-haste. Director Chris Sweeney (who helmed episodes one to three, with Daniel Nettheim steering the others) shoves a camera inside a tight coffin-esque space, evoking memories of Ryan Reynolds in Buried.

A big, beefy, cowboy shirt-wearing villain emerges in Billy (Ólafur Darri Ólafsson), who whistles cheerfully but with absolute menace, his merry tune a harbinger of impending doom. In the series’ second half, Alex Dimitriades emerges as another prominent bad guy, hamming it up in super-villain style.

Certain characters aren’t who they say they are, though that does not apply to Helen Chambers – a fair dinkum what-you-see-is-what-you-get probationary constable battling with low self-esteem. She is superbly portrayed by Danielle Macdonald (who played the gossip columnist Lillian Roxon in I am Woman ), bringing loads of colour and detail to what could have been the simple sweet hick. Macdonald’s performance vividly contrasts with the rough and tough Dornan – also perfect in a high-intensity role as a man who is something of a blank slate, frightened by who he is or who he may be. There are philosophical questions about identity to ponder – if viewers pause for a breather and stop chewing their nails – including to what extent each of us are defined by our past actions.

There’s also an oddly good performance from the ever-reliable Damon Herriman, offsetting his recent menacing work by playing a detective inspector in a way that’s both funny weird and funny ha-ha, suiting the show’s quite dry approach to comedy. Many scenes are humorous in a cagey way, sans explicit signposting: at one point for instance we discover a traffic pile-up has been created by two turtles rooting in the middle of the road. Elsewhere, in the aftermath of an intense confrontation, in a shot one could imagine belonging to a Coen brothers movie, the show cuts to a framed picture on a wall bearing the following message: “LIFE IS MADE OF CHOICES. WIPE YOUR FEET OR SCRUB THE FLOOR.”

The Tourist is very well shot by Ben Wheeler and Geoffrey Hall (who was also the cinematographer for Chopper , Red Dog: True Blue and Eden ), with colour grading that’s a little off, a little sickly, as if the blues and greens (hard to find in arid outback) in particular have been poisoned from the inside. This is a clever way of visualising the feeling that something isn’t quite right. Sweeney and Nettheim (whose directorial work includes episodes of Halifax: Retribution , Tidelands and Line of Duty) establish a cracker pace that creeps, creeps, creeps up on you, then explodes with a great big thunderclap of action then creeps, creeps, creeps up again.

The “bugger me dead, it’s hot!” action-thriller, as it shall henceforth be known, is by now very familiar, but The Tourist is different: a pulse-pounder that feels fresh despite many genre elements, particularly of the neo-noir variety. The show has a great forwards and backwards momentum, contrasting cliffhanger moments with questions about the past and the ambiguities therein. It’s a vision of Australiana that’s less “ where the bloody hell are you? ” than who the bloody hell are you, and what the bloody hell will happen next? And – summarising my personal response – bloody hell, this is good.

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Set in the vast and unforgiving Australian outback, this twisty cat-and-mouse crime thriller begins with a massive tractor truck trying to run a British man off the road. Awakening later in a nearby hospital - hurt but alive - The Man has no memory of who he is, what he’s done… or why he’s in Australia. With the help of rookie cop Helen Chambers and local waitress Luci, The Man’s search for his identity propels him on an epic quest - as merciless figures from his past relentlessly hunt him down.

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Starring: Jamie Dornan , Danielle MacDonald , Shalom Brune-Franklin , Damon Herriman , Alex Dimitriades , Ólafur Darri Ólafsson , Kamil Ellis , Danielle Macdonald , Ólafur Ólafsson

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'The Tourist': US release date, cast, plot, trailer, and all you need to know about the twisty thriller

Jamie Dornan heads the cast of epic drama 'The Tourist'.

The Tourist has brought mystery and intrigue to BBC1 and now the drama is heading to HBO Max for US viewers. 

Created and penned by award-winning brothers Harry and Jack Williams, whose previous credits include Liar , The Missing and Baptiste , the series sees Jamie Dornan as a mysterious character known as "The Man," who faces huge danger as he searches for his identity in the Australian outback.

Here’s everything we know about The Tourist ...

'The Tourist' release date

The Tourist arrives on HBO Max in the US on Thursday, March 3. 

The thriller first aired on BBC1 in the UK on Saturday, Jan. 1 2022 (New Year's Day) and now all episodes are available on streaming service BBCiPlayer. 

What is the plot of 'The Tourist'?

The twist-laden, action-packed, darkly comic drama follows The Man, a Brit, who has ended up Down Under and finds himself being chased by a massive truck, which is attempting to drive him off the road. 

After a breathtaking pursuit, The Man wakes up some time later in hospital but has no idea of his name or identity. But as people from his past return to haunt him, he faces a race against time to get to the truth about who he once was and who he is now before he is discovered by those who want to silence him forever...

“ The Tourist has some of the most exciting scripts I’ve ever read,” says Jamie Dornan , best known for The Fall and Fifty Shades of Grey film. 'I wanted The Man to come across as likeable because then the things you hear about him are more shocking as the shadiness of his past catches up with him…”

“We're hugely excited about this show. It's tonally breaking new ground for us, and having Jamie Dornan on board is the icing on the Australian cake,” add the Williams brothers.

Who does Danielle Macdonald play in 'The Tourist'?

The drama also stars Danielle Macdonald ( Unbelievable, Dumplin’, Patti Cake$ ) as rookie probationary constable Helen Chambers.

“Helen is a fascinating and intriguing character, I fell in love with her on page one,” says Macdonald. “I ended up reading all the episodes in one sitting because I couldn’t put them down! I’m so excited to get to be a part of this incredible project and I can’t wait to start filming alongside the amazing cast and production team.”

Who does Shalom Brune-Franklin play in 'The Tourist'?

Shalom Brune-Franklin ( Line of Duty, Roadkill ) is enigmatic waitress Luci, who crosses paths with The Man.

"This story is unique and I'm excited to be a part of bringing it to life with this brilliant team,” reveals Brune-Franklin. “I'm looking forward to adding to the thrilling mystery of these scripts with the wonderfully intriguing character of Luci. It's very exciting to be working on such a great project in Australia — it's going to be a lot of fun."

Who else is in the cast of 'The Tourist'?

Damon Herriman ( Mindhunter , Justified ) plays quirky cop DI Lachlan Rogers, and replaces Hugo Weaving who had to leave the production due to scheduling issues. Meanwhile Ólafur Darri Ólafsson ( Trapped, The Missing ) also appears as Billy Nixon, an American who gets embroiled in the case, and Alex Dimitriades ( The End, The Cry ) is Kosta Panigiris, a wealthy but shady businessman. 

How many episodes of 'The Tourist' are there?

There are six 60-minute instalments.

Is there a trailer for 'The Tourist'?

Yes! The action-packed teaser features explosions, helicopters and guns. It begins with The Man driving along in the Outback singing to the radio before a truck shockingly crashes into him. As he later sits sipping a beer he muses, "Why would somebody want me dead?" We then get glimpses of several other characters including an anxious-looking Helen and Luci before we see The Man lying in his hospital bed suffering from amnesia and the ominous words What He Doesn't Know Could Kill Him are emblazoned on the screen.

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Caren has been a journalist specializing in TV for almost two decades and is a Senior Features Writer for TV Times , TV & Satellite Week and What’s On TV magazines and she also writes for What to Watch.

Over the years, she has spent many a day in a muddy field or an on-set catering bus chatting to numerous stars on location including the likes of Olivia Colman, David Tennant, Suranne Jones, Jamie Dornan, Dame Judi Dench and Sir Derek Jacobi as well as Hollywood actors such as Glenn Close and Kiefer Sutherland.

Caren will happily sit down and watch any kind of telly (well, maybe not sci-fi!), but she particularly loves period dramas like Call the Midwife , Downton Abbey and The Crown and she’s also a big fan of juicy crime thrillers from Line of Duty to Poirot .

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The Tourist star Jamie Dornan opens up about the HBO Max mystery action series, shedding light on that shocking and disturbing final reveal.

Warning: This article contains SPOILERS for The Tourist .

Jamie Dornan opens up about the shocking ending of The Tourist . Created by Harry and Jack Williams, The Tourist centers on The Man (played by Dornan) who wakes up in a hospital with zero memory of who he is and how he got there. Spending the first of six episodes in a state of utter uncertainty, Dornan’s protagonist is helped along by Helen Chamber (Danielle Macdonald) , and the traffic cop helps The Man uncover the details behind the horrific car crash that led to his amnesia.

By the finale of the Australian-set series, it’s revealed that The Man is a drug smuggler named Elliot. Confronted by Lena Pascal (Victoria Haralabidou), a woman Elliot consistently has visions of, it becomes clear that Elliot’s actions in smuggling heroin inside people’s bodies led to the painful death of two women. It also led to Lena’s disfigurement, all of which she details in a searing monologue that makes plain how awful Elliot was before the crash and why someone would want him dead. This leads Elliot to the same conclusion, too, as he attempts to take his own life.

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Speaking with EW to promote The Tourist , which is currently streaming on HBO Max , Dornan opened up about how difficult it was to film that reveal. The actor admits that it broke him, detailing how uncomfortable and uneasy it made him feel. Dornan’s quote is included below.

“It was crazy, that. So much of this character and this performance for me is, like any performance, you’re trying to stay present, but never more so than when everything is information that you’ve never heard before, particularly if it’s awful information, like that scene. I felt very raw in that moment, I felt very exposed, and vulnerable and kind of awful and terrible about myself. She was doing such beautiful work in front of me and it was having the impact that I felt that it should have. Sometimes you get yourself in a place where you feel so broken that you can’t actually stop crying. [Laughs] I felt a bit like that that day in a good way, I guess. I felt very exposed, very vulnerable. You know, it’s hard stuff to hear, the hardest stuff to hear, so a lot of that luckily was on the page for me in terms of the writing. But, yeah, not an easy day, that.”

Dornan, who goes on to mention that there have been conversations about a possible second season, previously spoke about how The Tourist was his most difficult role because he didn’t know anything about The Man. To go from there, only to learn of the banal evil of this protagonist had to have been as much a punch in the gut for Dornan as it was for the audience. For most of the HBO Max drama, Elliot is positioned as a good guy. Gruff, sure, and certainly flawed, but ultimately the hero of the story alongside Helen. It’s a difficult last-minute switch that Dornan sells perfectly.

Still, even though the reveal leads the audience down a dark path, it ends with hope. It’s heavily implied that Elliot survives his suicide attempt and begins a relationship with Helen. Perhaps, it suggests, in the long-run, that the memory loss provides Elliot with a chance to be a new person. It also opens the door for The Tourist season 2. And maybe, given that many viewers and critics enjoyed the lighter and more experimental aspects of the series, a second outing won’t have quite as bleak a twist.

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The Tourist – Series Review (4/5)

Posted by Karina "ScreamQueen" Adelgaard | Feb 1, 2024 | 4 minutes

THE TOURIST on Netflix / HBO Max is a new series starring Jamie Dornan and co-produced with BBC. It’s a truly wild ride of a mystery thriller. Full of twists and turns and the most quirky characters at every turn. Read our full The Tourist series review here!

THE TOURIST is a new HBO Max limited series that was co-produced with BBC. In fact, the series originally premiered in the UK on January 1, 2022. Jamie Dornan is the absolute star of this story in the title role.

ALSO READ Our review of The Tourist Season 2 >

The actual storyline plays out in Australia and you’ll meet the most amazing and quirky characters. From the beginning of this story, you’ll both be laughing and feeling the terror that the main character is experiencing. It’s a truly wild ride of a mystery thriller.

Continue reading our The Tourist series review below and find all six episodes on HBO Max now. On February 1, 2024, it is also available on Netflix in the US.

Jamie Dornan is  The Tourist

When you look at the casting, you’ll see that Jamie Dornan ( The Fall series, Synchronic ) plays “The Man”. This is obviously due to the fact that the core plot is all about him losing all his memories after a car crash. Or rather, he is forced off the road by a truck in the middle of the Australian outback.

When he wakes up in the hospital, he has no ID or phone to help him figure out who he is. However, since Jamie Dornan was born in Belfast and uses his real accent in  The Tourist , it’s clear that he isn’t an Aussie. So far, so good.

The series has six episodes and by the end of episode two, you’ll hear his name. However, you should (and will) continue to doubt all the information you come across. Just like “The Man” is ultimately forced to. It seems impossible to truly trust many. If anyone!

Danielle Macdonald shines!

Along with Jamie Dornan as “The Man” (or simply, “The Tourist”), there is another actor carrying the main elements of the plot in this series. It’s the mesmerizing and heartwarming Danielle Macdonald who plays Helen Chambers. A traffic cop who is in training to become a detective.

Danielle Macdonald is absolutely magical in  The Tourist . Every single scene with her just made me either smile or get teary-eyed. From the first time we see her and she’s fumbling and quite insecure, she won me over.

You might recognize Danielle Macdonald from the Netflix movie  Dumplin’  (2018) where she played the title role. Also, she was in the Netflix horror movie Bird Box (2018) which became a worldwide mega-hit

MORE DANIELLE MACDONALD She also played a key role in the amazing Netflix series  Unbelievable  based on a true story >

Overall, the HBO Max series The Tourist really is chockful of the most quirky, enigmatic characters at every turn. Often portrayed by actors you’ll recognize such as Damon Herriman. He portrayed Charles Manson in both  Mindhunter   and  Once Upon a Time in Hollywood .

Also, the Icelandic actor Ólafur Darri Ólafsson ( Cursed ), who is as big as a house. He is perfect as an American cowboy type. Shalom Brune-Franklin ( Roadkill series ) plays a very important role in “The Man” figuring out more about his identity. Well, maybe. You’ll see!

Watch The Tourist on HBO Max now – on Netflix later!

The Tourist was written by Harry Williams and Jack Williams. The two previously worked on various TV series as both writers and producers. They created the BBC crime-thriller series  Liar  (2017-2020) and produced a series such as Fleabag . A series that certainly also excels at having quirky characters.

The six episodes in this limited series are divided by two directors. These directors are Chris Sweeney ( Back to Life series on Showtime ) and Daniel Nettheim ( Broadchurch , Ash vs Evil Dead ). They each directed three episodes of this BBC and HBO Max series.

If you enjoy a good mystery full of twists, turns, and very  entertaining characters, then you do not want to miss out on  The Tourist  on HBO Max. It’s a real treat and a genre-hybrid in all the best ways.

The Tourist  is out on HBO Max from March 3, 2022. From February 1, 2024, season 1 will be added to Netflix in the US, and season 2 will come to Netflix on February 29.

Writers: Harry Williams & Jack Williams Directors: Chris Sweeney, Daniel Nettheim Cast: Jamie Dornan, Danielle Macdonald, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Damon Herriman, Alex Dimitriades, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Kamil Ellis

In the miniseries, a British man finds himself in the glowing red heart of the Australian outback being pursued by a vast tank truck trying to drive him off the road. An epic cat and mouse chase unfolds and the man later wakes in hospital, hurt, but somehow alive. Except he has no idea who he is. With merciless figures from his past pursuing him, The Man’s search for answers propels him through the vast and unforgiving outback.

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Jamie Dornan’s turn in The Tourist will make you forget about Christian Grey

With the belfast star in the driver’s seat, hbo max’s six-part series piles on the twists, turns, and the occasional acid trip.

It takes a big person to admit that they were wrong, which makes it so hard for an actor to shift the established opinion of them within the culture and critical establishment. It seems that HBO’s The Tourist may just do something truly Herculean, and make all the Jamie Dornan naysayers admit he’s actually a pretty good actor.

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Not that people were without reason to doubt Dornan’s talents. When he first came to international attention, it was as Christian Grey, a kinky but bland billionaire in the 50 Shades trilog y. Those films were never considered high art, but have aged like warm milk, along with Dornan’s comments that he researched his role as the serial killer in The Fall by stalking unsuspecting women. But credit where it’s due—Dornan now joins the ranks of Robert Pattin son, Kristen Stewart, and former co-star Dakota Johnson as a person who made interesting choices after their franchise ended and looks to become one of our credible millennial actors. The actor delighted audiences in recent hits like Barb And Star Go To Vista Del Mar and Belfast .

This six-episode HBO Max series starts with one of the great tropes of melodramas—total amnesia befalls a handsome stranger after a terrible car crash, leaving him unable to remember so much as his own name. A kindly rookie police officer named Helen (Danielle Macdonald) takes pity on him and hopes to help him recover some, if not all, of his memories. Armed with nothing more than a note with a restaurant name and a time, the man sets out on his quest to figure out who he is and what he is doing in the remote Australian outback. To say much more would spoil much of the fun, and boy, is The Tourist fun. Some of the early twists follow may well-worn paths, but there’s no way to predict the roller-coaster ride ahead.

Macdonald gets to use her native Australian accent to play a character with parallels to Fargo ’s beloved Marge Gunderson, a folksy moral compass whose instincts prove invaluable. But where Marge was a well-respected detective in a loving marriage, Helen can only dream of the same. She is undermined both professionally and personally. One of the most enjoyable supporting characters is her spectacularly awful fiancé Ethan (Greg Larsen), who shames her for eating burgers, complains about her desire for high thread-count sheets, and labels her ambition as “delusions of grandeur” (which he repeatedly mispronounces). Even in a world of abundant brutality, it’s not hard to want a little more of it pointed in Ethan’s direction. It’s a credit to Larsen’s performance that he creates a man so intolerable, it’s worth continuing watching just for Helen’s inevitable realization that she’s far too good for him.

Though a good breakup is reason enough to stay engaged, The Tourist also does great cinematic work in its action sequences. We open with the amnesia-causing incident, where Dornan, driving alone in a dusty compact car through the Outback, singing along to Kim Carne s’ “Bette Davis Eyes,” is pursued by a giant truck. At first, it seems like he’s just come across an asshole driver, but the moment it clicks that this is a many-wheeled high-speed weapon is utterly terrifying. The chase feels more horror film than TV action sequence, a tone that runs throughout the many moments of violence The Tourist puts on screen. Every crunch of bone, severed artery, and choke of breath feels visceral and impressively horrific. Much like Fargo , part of the fun of The Tourist is breaking up humorous moments among sweet local eccentrics with breathtaking cruelty. And those tonal shifts are expertly employed by the supporting cast, particularly Shalom Brune-Franklin, Damon Herriman, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, and Alex Dimitriades, who pack all the intrigue of film noir alongside some great humor and convincing derangement.

Twists aside, The Tourist lags in the middle act, but is buoyed by a distinctly adult tone—there’s a gameness to it that makes the scary, horny, and darkly comic elements work well in tandem. Each twist (and they’re deployed every 15 minutes or so) beyond the second episode lands with full weight, particularly in the final episode where Dornan’s acting chops reach their apex.

It’s hard to imagine that The Tourist will have a seismic impact—the era of excellent television is a thankfully crowded one, and little here breaks new ground. But it’s an absolute hoot to travel down the series’ dusty Australian roads, taking in the trippy, almost Lynchian tangents through fractured minds and broken memories. Anti-hero narratives are familiar for a reason, and The Tourist keeps them as compelling as ever; even when it treads familiar territory, it’s never a bore. The paradigm of TV thrillers may not be shifted, but many people’s perceptions o f Jamie Dornan will never be the same.

Review: 'The Tourist' is a ferocious thriller that relentlessly keeps you hanging on

Talk about a binge watch!

Talk about a binge watch! “The Tourist,” on HBO Max in a blast of six, one-hour episodes, is a ferocious thriller that’s also ferociously funny. Starring Jamie Dornan as an Irishman suffering amnesia in the Australian outback, the series is—to recoin a phrase—must-see TV.

The plot kicks in hard in Episode 1 as Dornan drives down a dusty road with a monster truck on his tail. Waking up battered and bruised in a hospital, he can’t even remember his name. Known only as “The Man” until the end of Episode 2, The Man—like Guy Pearce in “Memento”— must put together the puzzle of his life with crucial pieces missing.

“The Tourist” relentlessly keeps you hanging on. In the book world, they’d call it unputdownable. Each episode of the script by Jack and Harry Williams (“The Missing”) ends in a cliffhanger that whips you into the next episode. Forget about sleep.

It’s clear that Chris Sweeney (who directed episodes one to three) and Daniel Nettheim (who helmed the other half) have seen a lot of Coen brothers movies, especially “Fargo” and “Raising Arizona” with their deliciously deadpan blend of mirth and menace. If you’re going to borrow inspiration, why not swipe from the best.

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And Dornan, free from the cartoonish excess of the “Fifty Shades of Gray” trilogy, carries the whole thing with his starshine and burgeoning talent as an actor in “The Fall” and “Belfast.” Dornan is so good, you’ll follow him anywhere, which is just what “The Tourist” needs.

Dornan finds a perfect partner in Aussie dynamo Danielle Macdonald as Helen Chambers, a traffic cop with ambitions to rise in the ranks. The sweetness of Macdonald’s funny, touching and vital performance brings a nurturing humanity to the evil-doings surrounding her.

Can the diet-obsessed Helen, stuck with a controlling fiancée (Greg Larsen), discover herself by helping The Man recover his memory? Their attraction, repped by a burrito emoji, brings heart to a series that aims to blow the doors off with shocks and exploding violence.

For instance, there’s the dude who keeps calling The Man while buried alive in a secret grave? And why does the detective inspector, played to the hilt by Damon Herriman, seem less reliable than the gangsters and drug dealers who occupy the periphery of the episodes?

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Truly terrifying is the best way to describe Ólafur Darri Ólafsson as Billy, the hulking American cowboy who drove The Man off the road and yet keeps comparing everyone he meets to his beloved mother. The scene between Billy and Helen will have you biting your nails to the quick.

And what of Shalom Brune-Franklin (“Line of Duty”) as Luci, the flirt who meets The Man at a diner that explodes minutes after they leave it. Luci volunteers to help The Man chase down his past. Or is she hiding something. Hint: Everyone in “The Tourist” is hiding something.

There’s no way I’ll spoil the fun by telling you who’s hiding what. Packed with high-voltage suspense and twists you don’t see coming, “The Tourist” also poses tangled questions about the nature of identify. You can tell The Man is afraid of what he might learn about himself.

Put yourself in his place, which is exactly what “The Tourist” wants you do. It’s one of the reasons this thrill-a-minute series has the staying power to haunt your dreams. The final episode is open-ended enough to suggest there might be a Season 2. Count me in.

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Written and co-produced by Harry Williams and Jack Williams, ‘The Tourist’ is a mystery thriller series that stars Jamie Dornan, Danielle Macdonald, and Shalom Brune-Franklin in pivotal roles. The show focuses on a British man with amnesia who somehow ends up in the red heart of the Australian outback and is struggling to make sense of his current situation in his disoriented state.

As if struggling to remember ones’ past was not terrible enough, the protagonist finds out that he is being actively pursued by ghosts of his past which makes the search for answers even more urgent and critical. Curious to learn more about ‘The Tourist’ and why it has been garnering so much buzz since its release? Well, you have come to right the place. Here’s everything you need to know.

What is The Tourist About?

When a British man finally comes to his senses, he realizes that he is being actively chased by a vast tank truck that is trying to push him to drive him off the road. However, for some strange reason, he cannot recall how he ended up in the Australian outback, and to make matters worse, he has no recollection of his past life or who he is. As the countless question makes his head spin, he then suddenly finds himself in a hospital with several injuries. Unfortunately, he is still just as clueless about his past and realizes that he must find answers soon as merciless figures with some inexplicable goal continue to pursue him.

Is The Tourist on Netflix?

Netflix subscribers will have to look for the show on some other platform since it is currently not a part of the streaming giant’s present catalog. However, we recommend our readers alternatively stream ‘ Open Your Eyes .’

Is The Tourist on Hulu?

Sadly, people with Hulu’s basic subscription cannot watch the mystery thriller on the website. However, if you get a Hulu’s HBO Max add-on for $14.99/month, then you can watch all exclusive content, including ‘The Tourist.’ You can learn more about it here .

Is The Tourist on Amazon Prime?

Amazon Prime’s current offering does not include ‘The Tourist.’ The show is also not available for rent/purchase on the platform. Therefore, Prime subscribers can instead watch other somewhat shows like ‘ Black Box .’

Is The Tourist on HBO Max?

In the United States, ‘The Tourist’ is released on March 3, 2022, as an HBO Max Original series. Therefore, people who wish to watch the show must get a subscription to the streamer. In case you are already subscribed, you can watch all the episodes here .

Where to Watch The Tourist Online?

People living in the United Kingdom can watch the Jamie Dornan-starrer on BBC iPlayer . In case you are from Australia, then you can find all the episodes on Stan .

How to Stream The Tourist for Free?

Although HBO Max no longer comes with a free trial, Stan gives subscribers a 30-day free trial, while Hulu’s HBO Max add-on gives people a 7-day time period to experience its services. So, one can use the aforementioned offers to watch the show without paying anything. However, we encourage our readers to refrain from using illegal means.

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Even though the six-episode series, airing on HBO Max, is gripping and full of surprises, its creators made sure to include some offbeat humor.

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LONDON — After his car is rammed off the road by a mystery driver in a truck, a Northern Irishman wakes up in a hospital in the Australian outback with no memory of who he is. “I keep telling myself to just try and remember,” he tells the police officer that comes to take his statement, “but it’s like trying to make yourself fly.”

That is the starting gun for “The Tourist,” a six-part limited series that premieres Thursday on HBO Max. After the man, played by Jamie Dornan (“ Belfast ”), leaves the hospital, it becomes clear he was involved in some murky business in his former life, and someone definitely wants him dead.

The opening premise would suggest a typical thriller. Memory loss is a familiar plot device for the genre (see: “Memento,” “The Bourne Identity” et al). “The Tourist,” which first aired on the BBC in Britain this year, is similar in form to the broadcaster’s other tense, tight shows, such as “ The Night Manager ” and “ Bodyguard .”

Unlike those offerings, “The Tourist” adds more offbeat humor and touches of the surreal to a gripping central plot that still provides car chases, shootouts and international criminal outfits.

When he first read the script, Dornan found it surprising, he said in a recent interview. “Any time I thought it was one thing, or I had a handle on where it was heading, it was altered,” he said. “It was sometimes really subtle, and sometimes it was a big whack over the head.”

As the episodes unfurl, rooting for the confused, likable character becomes a little more complicated. In a recent interview, Dornan said that when he first read the script he wondered if the audience would still be on the man’s side, “searching for the answers when they find out what some of the answers are.”

Dornan’s character is joined in his hunt for answers by the police officer from the hospital, Helen Chambers ( Danielle Macdonald ), who is on her first assignment off traffic duty. She feels strangely compelled to help the man, who also finds assistance from Luci Miller (Shalom Brune-Franklin), a waitress he meets at a cafe.

The show’s setting in small-town Australia helps provide comic relief through characters like a hapless but well-meaning rookie police officer and the elderly owners of a bed-and-breakfast. Amid the chaos and danger, there are scenes that tip into the wholesome and heartwarming.

Helen, the police officer, is also an unlikely thriller protagonist: kind, honest and unassuming. Macdonald sees her character as the show’s “Everywoman,” she said in a recent interview. When we first meet Helen, it is clear that she is unhappy and underestimated, by herself and her fiancé.

Macdonald said that she had spent some time figuring out the character’s role in the plot. “The rest of the show is so dark and Helen was so light,” she said. “It ended up balancing really nicely.”

The show’s writers and creators, the brothers Jack and Harry Williams, have become known for conventional thrillers such as the Golden Globe-nominated show “ The Missing .” “The Tourist” came from a desire to do something different. “It’s the kind of show we’d watch, it’s the kind of show we really enjoy doing,” Jack said.

The brothers also have experience with dark-hearted television comedies, having been executive producers on Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s “ Fleabag ” and on Daisy Haggard’s “ Back to Life .” Their latest show, then, was about “bridging that gap, because having made comedies and made drama, it just felt like a natural place for us to operate,” Harry Williams said.

They brought on Chris Sweeney, who also worked on “Back to Life,” to direct half of the series. Despite wanting to work on nondirectorial projects at the time, Sweeney said that he had been won over. “I don’t like straight thrillers, it’s not my thing, but I like things that use a device to talk about what is human existence in a playful way,” he said in a video interview.

“The Tourist” questions not only how the past defines us, but also — through the character trajectories of both the central character and of Helen — the other things we lean on to build our identities. Sweeney said that he felt the script had the “personality” of films he loves within the thriller genre, like the work of the Coen brothers. He described elements of the show as a “love letter” to those films, with scenes that evoke “ No Country for Old Men ” and Steven Soderbergh’s “Out of Sight.”

Dornan was initially a little concerned about the show’s genre medley. While shooting in Australia, “the three of us, Shalom, Danielle and I, we were all in equal parts terrified at different moments because of the comedy and the drama, and how to find the comfortable line there,” he said. “I was a bit like, are people going to know what this is, or where to hang their hat on it?”

In Britain, at least, the concerns seem to have been unfounded. When “The Tourist” arrived on the BBC’s streaming service on New Year’s Day, it was met with glowing reviews and quickly became the platform’s third-most successful drama opening to date.

Jack Williams said he thought that the show had resonated with audiences, in part, because of its escapist quality, adding that it “isn’t trying to reflect back some of the angst and misery that everyone’s been experiencing for a few years.”

As well as diving into a mystery, viewers of “The Tourist” are transported to a stark, almost otherworldly landscape. The show was filmed across several different locations in the sprawling expanse of southern Australia, where you can “point the camera anywhere and it just looks incredible,” Harry Williams noted. “That said, we had to travel quite a lot of hours within the outback in order to get that desired effect,” he added.

The travel contributed to the shoot’s lasting five months, a period of filming that was also stretched by the ambition of the show: The opening car chase sequence was filmed over two weeks. “It was the hardest job I’ve ever done,” Dornan said. “It’s the longest job I’ve ever done.”

With the show’s success in Britain has come discussion about the possibility of a second season. The show was conceived as a self-contained mini-series, similar to the BBC’s other six-part shows. That “less is more” approach contrasts with the sprawling nature of much of American network television; Showtime’s thriller “Homeland,” for example, ran for eight seasons and 96 episodes.

Tommy Bulfin, a BBC drama commissioning editor, said in an email that, while the broadcaster has a “tradition of doing six episode runs,” ultimately the practice of doing shorter productions was down to the subject matter. “I think the key to the success of these shows is that they’re all excellent examples of brilliantly crafted stories,” he said.

The Williams brothers echoed that sentiment. In thinking about the length of “The Tourist,” the story took precedence. “You have to kind of follow that and the natural course that it would take and not try and squeeze out more,” Harry said. The pair wouldn’t rule out the possibility of a second season, but added that they were cautious about doing so.

“There is no perfect length, just like there’s no perfect length for a book,” Harry Williams said. “But there is an appropriate length for a story.”

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The Tourist season 2 is here. Emmy-nominated heartthrob Jamie Dornan returned to our screens in January as Elliott Stanley, a man we first found in an Australian hospital with no recollection of who he was, or why everyone wanted him dead. Season 2 shifted the action from Oz to the Emerald Isle as Elliott and Helen (Danielle Macdonald) made ever more troubling discoveries about Elliott’s past.

Read on below for how to watch The Tourist season 2 online for free. And, should you find yourself away from home, you can stream the series stream the series from anywhere with a VPN .

Release date and time:  The Tourist season 2 released early January in the U.K. with all 6 episodes available now on BBC iPlayer. ►  FREE STREAM —   BBC iPlayer (U.K.) ►  Watch anywhere — Try ExpressVPN 100% risk free

The Tourist, created by siblings Harry and Jack Williams, the Emmy-winning producers of The Missing and Fleabag, was the most watched drama of 2022 in the UK and a hit internationally, with season 2 proving just as popular domestically. 

After learning some hard home truths about our amnesiac anti-hero, did Elliott manage to balance the karmic scales this season? No spoilers here of course, but we can say that season 2, saw Helen escort him to his native Ireland where they found themselves unwittingly in the middle of a bitter family feud and also hunted by brand new enemies.

Yet, as Niamh Cassidy (Joyride’s Olwen Fouéré) cautioned Helen in the series' trailer, “You don’t know him sweetheart. You don’t even know his real name.”

The second outing also welcomed Conor MacNeill (Industry), Diarmaid Murtagh (Vikings), and Francis Magee (Kin) to the cast, and delivered even bigger twists and turns than the first season of this compelling crime drama series. Read our guide below for how to watch The Tourist season 2 online and from anywhere in the world.

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The Tourist season 2 arrived on <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/" data-link-merchant="bbc.co.uk"" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> BBC iPlayer in January, and all 6 episodes out now to stream at your leisure.

Of course, if you’re watching The Tourist on BBC iPlayer, you’ll need a valid TV license.

Travelling outside the U.K.? Don't worry — as we explain below, you can watch it live or on-demand when you download a VPN.

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3. Sit back and enjoy the show. Head to BBC iPlayer and stream new episodes of The Tourist season 2 online.

How to watch The Tourist season 2 in the U.S.

Although HBO Max co-produced season 1 and was the U.S. streaming home of The Tourist, the company hasn’t been similarly involved with the second season and has even removed the show’s initial episodes from its platform. 

However, The Tourist has a new home alongside other crime thrillers on Netflix . It arrived a little later than the U.K, but season 2 is available (alongside season 1), right now.  

A U.K. citizen travelling abroad? With a VPN you can connect to BBC iPlayer from anywhere, and stream hit shows like The Tourist season 2 online no matter where you are.

Can you watch The Tourist season 2 online in Canada?

There’s no release date in Canada for The Tourist season 2 just yet. Rights to stream the series were initially purchased by Amazon Prime in 2022 – the early episodes are available to stream now – but the platform hasn’t confirmed whether it will also host the second season.

Abroad and unable to access BBC iPlayer? As mentioned above, a VPN will let you stream The Tourist season 2 online no matter where you are.

How to watch The Tourist season 2 online FREE in Australia

Stan, the company co-producing The Tourist with the BBC, is the place to find all new season 2 episodes in Australia with the whole season available right now . 

Stan offers an incredible free 30-day trial to check out the streaming service. After that, the Basic plan costs $10 AUD/per month, with pricier options if you want to stream on more than one device and in HD or 4K quality.

But remember: if you're based in the U.K. but aren't there at the moment, you could still connect to BBC iPlayer and stream The Tourist season 2 live or on-demand. All you need is a VPN such as  ExpressVPN .

The Tourist season 2 TV aired in the U.K. on the following dates:

• The Tourist season 2 episode 1 – Monday, Jan. 1
• The Tourist season 2 episode 2 – Tuesday, Jan. 2
• The Tourist season 2 episode 3 – Sunday, Jan. 7
• The Tourist season 2 episode 4 – Sunday, Jan. 14
• The Tourist season 2 episode 5 – Sunday, Jan. 21
• The Tourist season 2 episode 6 – Sunday, Jan. 28
• Jamie Dornan as Elliott Stanley
• Danielle Macdonald as Helen Chambers
• Greg Larsen as Ethan Krum
• Conor MacNeill as Detective Ruairi Slater
• Olwen Fouéré as Niamh Cassidy
• Diarmaid Murtagh as Donal
• Nessa Matthews as Orla
• Mark McKenna as Fergel
• Francis Magee as Frank

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Before you check out how to watch The Tourist season 2 online, take a look at the explosive trailer, below:

What to expect from The Tourist season 2?

Harry and Jack Williams, Writers and Managing Directors of Two Brothers Pictures say: "We’re so excited to take Elliot and Helen to Ireland, where they will meet a host of dark and off beat new characters. With a stellar cast to match, we can’t wait for it all to be brought to life."

Lindsay Salt, BBC Director of Drama, says: “I could not be happier to welcome the phenomenon that is The Tourist back to BBC One and iPlayer. With an ingenious new adventure from the dazzling minds of Harry and Jack Williams, things are about to get even wilder for Elliot and Helen.”

The Tourist series two is a Two Brothers Pictures (an All3Media company) production for the BBC, in association with Stan, ZDF and All3Media International created and written by Harry and Jack Williams (The Missing, Baptiste, Fleabag). Fergus O’Brien (Happy Valley, Gentleman Jack) directs the opening block with Johann Perry (Happy Valley, Gentleman Jack) as DOP, while Lisa Mulcahy (Blood, Years and Years) and Kate Dolan (Kin, You Are Not My Mother) direct block two and three respectively.

Alex Mercer (Inside Man, Crossfire) is producer, with Louise Kiely (The Banshees of Inisherin, Normal People) as casting director. Executive producers are Harry and Jack Williams, Daniel Walker and Sarah Hammond for Two Brothers Pictures, with Nawfal Faizullah for the BBC, and Jamie Dornan.

Who is joining the cast of The Tourist season 2?

Joining the BAFTA and Golden Globe award nominated Jamie Dornan (Belfast, The Fall) and Danielle Macdonald (Unbelievable, Dumplin’) are Conor MacNeill (Industry, The Fall), Olwen Fouéré (Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Northman), Francis Magee (Kin, Then You Run), Mark McKenna (Sing Street, One of Us is Lying), Diarmaid Murtagh (Vikings, Outlander), and Nessa Matthews (Fair City).

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‘The Boys’ Season 4: Release Date, Cast, Plot, and Everything We Know So Far

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The Prime Video hit The Boys answered many fan questions in its Season 3 finale, including Soldier Boy's shady past and a glimpse into the powers held by Homelander's son Ryan Butcher. The Boys is an expertly crafted satirization of the dominant superhero culture and real-world connections to the American military-industrial complex. Season 3 followed past seasons' shocking and unforgettable openings, with the first episode alluding to the NSFW Ant-Man and Thanos meme that dominated the internet leading up to Avengers: Endgame . Changes to the source material have allowed The Boys to keep its commentary relevant but can make looking to the comics for answers futile. What can audiences look forward to in the upcoming season?

Editor's Note: This piece was updated on April 13, 2024.

A group of vigilantes set out to take down corrupt superheroes who abuse their superpowers.

It was announced that the series had been renewed for a fourth season back in June 2022 .

Prime Video has revealed that the first three episodes of Season 4 will premiere on Thursday, June 13, 2024 , two years after The Boys Season 3 premiered in June 2022. New episodes will drop weekly, leading up to the season finale on July 18, 2024.

Yes, the first teaser trailer for The Boys Season 4 was released online after premiering at the 2023 edition of CCXP. The new teaser trailer teases the most politically charged season of the superhero satire yet, as an election looms large, and Homelander begins to spiral even further and further out of control.

While we've had many characters exit the show, our core cast members have mostly gone unchanged. Returning this season are Karl Urban (Billy Butcher), Antony Starr (Homelander), Jack Quaid (Hughie Campbell), Erin Moriarty (Starlight), Jessie T. Usher (A-Train), Chace Crawford (The Deep), Karen Fukuhara (Kimiko Miyashiro), Tomer Capone (Frenchy), Colby Minifie (Ashley Barrett), and Cameron Crovetti (Ryan).

Two costumes for previously unseen supes have been revealed. Firecracker is a redhead with a red, white, and blue outfit and a firearm holstered to her hip. Due to The Boys ' previous representation of American nationalism, her colors may hint at questionable morals and a possible alliance with Homelander. Firecracker's powers are currently unknown, but her name alludes to pyrokinesis in the vein of The Fantastic Four 's Human Torch or even the use of flamethrowers such as DC's Firefly. Her red hair, skintight suit, and weapon also draw similarities to Scarlett Johansson 's MCU Black Widow. Supes in The Boys have very rarely used weapons thus far, with the exception of Soldier Boy and Gunpowder, so the inclusion of her firearm in the promo photos raises many questions about Firecracker's role at Vought. Valorie Curry will play Firecracker. Curry previously appeared in The Twilight Saga as Charlotte, a nomadic vampire who was changed by the same vampire as Jasper Cullen, and in Amazon's live-action adaptation of The Tick as Dot Everest, the sister of The Tick's sidekick, Arthur.

The second costume revealed is another character unique to the series, Sister Sage. Sister Sage's stunningly ornate costume uses textured gold and brown fabrics, accentuated by her golden dreadlocks and sunglasses with brown lenses. Her fingers are anointed with rings, which may lend to the theory that she will be a magic user with powers similar to those shown in Shang Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings . Her name has drawn comparison to Marvel's Runaways character Nico Minoru, another magic user, who is sometimes referred to as Sister Grimm. Her textures and color palate evoke memories of the snake motif used in Marvel's Luke Cage , perhaps hinting towards super strength and a deeper commentary on the race relations lurking beneath the surface of The Boys . Despite Vought's historic ties to Nazism and growing nationalism brewing all around them, The Boys has shied away from making meaningful commentary on the subject. Susan Heyward has been cast as Sister Sage. Heyward may be recognizable to fans of Orange is The New Black , appearing as Tamika Ward in the later seasons of the Netflix Original.

The Walking Dead alum Jeffrey Dean Morgan will also be joining the cast of Season 4 in an undisclosed role. Another newcomer will be Rosemarie Dewitt ( La La Land ) who is joining the cast as Hughie's Mom. In the series, Hughie's parents divorced with his father receiving full custody, and since then, he has never heard from his mother. Simon Pegg, who had a recurring role as Hughie's Dad in Season 1 (and served as the inspiration for Hughie's design in Garth Ennis ' comics) will be reprising his role for Season 4, after sitting out for Season 2 and having a blink, and you'll miss it cameo (via phone call) in Season 3.

Rob Benedict , who some will know for playing the 'holy' role of Chuck Shurley in Supernatural , will also be joining the cast in an undisclosed role as well as Elliot Knight , who played the role of Dove in two episodes of the HBO Max superhero series Titans .

The official plot synopsis for The Boys Season 4 reads:

The world is on the brink. Victoria Neuman is closer than ever to the Oval Office and under the muscly thumb of Homelander, who is consolidating his power. Butcher, with only months to live, has lost Becca’s son as well as his job as The Boys’ leader. The rest of the team are fed up with his lies. With the stakes higher than ever, they have to find a way to work together and save the world before it’s too late.

Showrunner Eric Kripke confirmed Season 4 would revolve around The Butcher and Homelander's fight over Ryan , comparing their situation to the 1980s sitcom My Two Dads . In the interview, he said he views The Butcher and Homelander as parallels, stating he considers their relationship like Batman and The Joker or Holmes and Moriarty. Aside from a deep, personal hatred, there lies an intimate understanding of one another. With the stakes rising as Ryan grows up, the two men have much more in common than they'd like to admit. Kripke stated the next season will also largely focus on the rise of Victoria Neuman. A morally gray supe in the White House that can kill anyone instantly will likely be an issue for both Vought and The Boys.

Due to leaked on-set photos, the cast was confirmed to be shooting Season 4 in Toronto in August 2022. Filming of the highly anticipated season wrapped in April 2023, and post-production was completed in April 2024 .

The comic series The Boys , written by Garth Ennis, was originally published between 2007 and 2012. The series spans seventy-two issues and were collected into six volumes. There have been four spin-off miniseries, of which the first three have been included in the "Definitive Edition." The most recent series, "Dear Becky" was written in 2021 and follows Hughie and Annie's relationship twelve years after the events of The Boys .

The Boys Presents: Diabolical is an animated spin-off series on Amazon Prime. The show has an all-star writing team featuring Garth Ennis, Eric Kripke, Seth Rogen , Evan Goldberg , Justin Roiland , Ilana Glazer , Awkwafina , and Andy Sandberg . Each episode is a standalone glance into The Boys universe, utilizing a different animation and writing style for each story.

Another spin-off series, Gen V , premiered on September 29, 2023 . The series chronicles the lives of aspiring supes at Godolkin University.

The final of Gen V , which featured cameos from both Billy Butcher and Homelander will tie directly into Season 4 of The Boys . In an interview with Collider, Kripke revealed that Butcher's cameo serves as a direct lead-in to the new season :

"But the intent was to start setting the table for Season 4 of The Boys . It’s not a spoiler to say that the virus that was created in Gen V plays a big part of the storyline in Season 4 and that we knew we wanted Butcher to be aware of it. That’s really one of the fun things of having these two series, you can go back and set up an important step in Michele [Fazekas]’ show, and then carry it forward into ours."

Additionally, free online content for The Boys has also been produced for both Twitter and YouTube. On Twitter, two short films starring The Butcher were published in September 2020 and 2022. The films are set between significant events in the show and provide more context to what The Butcher does in the aftermath of these battles. During shooting delays due to COVID-19, The Boys released Seven on 7 . The web series is an in-universe news show owned by Vought International, hosted by a parody of real-world commentator Tucker Carlson and the Marvel Comics character J. Jonah Jameson, and teased events in Season 3. Another piece of in-universe media, Deeper and Deeper , is an Audible podcast that stars The Deep and his wife, Cassandra, as they are interviewed about their personal lives and events involving The Seven.

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Weekly Commentary (Updated: April 11, 2024) : Will Donald Glover, as John Smith in Amazon Prime Video’s “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” secure Emmy recognition ?

Glover, a versatile talent in acting, writing, producing, and music, has left a significant mark on television, notably with his acclaimed series “Atlanta.” There, he bagged two Emmys in 2017 for lead comedy actor and directing. An 11-time Emmy nominee, his latest nom was for writing the limited series “Swarm” with Janine Nabers. With Amazon’s robust campaign and the current state of the drama field, Glover might land his first drama series nomination.

The competition, though not crowded with frontrunners, includes notable contenders.

Other actors from freshman series entering the race alongside Glover include Nathan Fielder from Showtime’s black dramedy “The Curse,” Colin Farrell headlining Apple’s genre-bending “Sugar” and possibly Walton Goggins from the Amazon’s video game adaptation “Fallout,” contingent on category choice.

Veteran actors from longstanding shows are also vying for recognition. Dominic West, portraying Charles, the Prince of Wales in “The Crown’s” final season, aims for his first Emmy nod, despite acclaimed roles in “The Wire” and “The Affair.” With “The Crown” concluding in December 2023, this year represents the TV Academy’s last chance to nominate him.

Gary Oldman, star of Apple’s “Slow Horses,” is in a strong position to earn his inaugural Emmy nod for his role as Jackson Lamb. Although Oldman won an Oscar for “Darkest Hour,” his Emmy nominations are sparse, with just one for a guest role in “Friends.”

Others hoping for Emmy acknowledgment include Morgan Spector from “The Gilded Age,” having a successful second season, and Tom Hiddleston from “Loki,” who stands as the Marvel actor with the highest Emmy prospects this season. Variety will present Hiddleston with the Variety Virtuoso Award at the Miami Film Festival on Tuesday, April 9 for his career achievements across film, theater and television.

The dynamic nature of the awards season means that new developments can emerge, influencing the race for noms (and wins).

Read : All Primetime Emmy predictions in every category on Variety’s  Awards Circuit .

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Eligible performances (lead drama actor).

**The list below is not complete and have been confirmed as officially submitted. All information is subject to change. Grouped by network that airs each series.

• Peter Krause — “9-1-1” (ABC)
• Freddie Highmore — “ The Good Doctor ” (ABC)
• Ramón Rodríguez — “Will Trent” (ABC)
• Jacob Anderson — “ Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire ” (AMC)
• Zahn McClarnon — “Dark Winds” (AMC)
• Giancarlo Esposito — “Parish” (AMC)
• Norman Reedus — “The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon” (AMC)
• Andrew Lincoln — “The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live” (AMC)
• Lakeith Stanfield — “The Changeling” (Apple TV+)
• Joel Edgerton — “Dark Matter” (Apple TV+)
• Jared Harris — “Foundation” (Apple TV+)
• Idris Elba — “Hijack” (Apple TV+)
• Ben Mendelsohn — “The New Look” (Apple TV+)
• Kurt Russell — “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” (Apple TV+)
• Gary Oldman — “ Slow Horses ” (Apple TV+)
• Colin Farrell — “Sugar” (Apple TV+)
• Ncuty Gatwa — “Doctor Who” (BBC One)
• Tom Selleck — “ Blue Bloods ” (CBS)
• Justin Hartley — “Tracker” (CBS)
• Jared Padalecki — “Walker” (The CW)
• Tom Hiddleston — “Loki” (Disney+)
• Timothy Olyphant — “Justified: City Primeval” (FX)
• J. D. Pardo — “Mayans M.C.” (FX)
• Damson Idris — “ Snowfall ” (FX)
• Titus Welliver — “Bosch: Legacy” (Freevee)
• Morgan Spector — “The Gilded Age” (Max)
• Jamie Dornan — “The Tourist” (Max)
• Ansel Elgort — “Tokyo Vice” (Max)
• Andrew Koji — “Warrior” (Max)
• Quincy Isaiah — “Winning Time: Rise of the Lakers Dynasty” (Max)
• John C. Reilly — “Winning Time: Rise of the Lakers Dynasty” (Max)
• Forest Whitaker — “ Godfather of Harlem ” (MGM+)
• Iain De Caestecker — “The Winter King” (MGM+)
• Mark-Paul Gosselaar — “Found” (NBC)
• Jesse L. Martin — “The Irrational” (NBC)
• Ryan Eggold — “ New Amsterdam ” (NBC)
• Raymond Lee — “Quantum Leap” (NBC)
• Gordon Cormier — “Avatar: The Last Airbender” (Netflix)
• Dominic West — “ The Crown ” (Netflix)
• Manuel Garcia-Rulfo — “The Lincoln Lawyer” (Netflix)
• Omar Sy — “Lupin” (Netflix)
• Iñaki Godoy — “One Piece” (Netflix)
• Henry Cavill — “The Witcher” (Netflix)
• John Leguizamo — “The Green Veil” (The Network)
• Pablo Schreiber — “Halo” (Paramount+)
• Anson Mount — “ Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ” (Paramount+)
• Édgar Ramírez — “Dr. Death” (Peacock)
• Walton Goggins — “Fallout” (Prime Video)
• Donald Glover — “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” (Prime Video)
• Josh Brolin — “Outer Range” (Prime Video)
• Alan Ritchson — “Reacher” (Prime Video)
• John Krasinski — “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan” (Prime Video)
• Paul Giamatti — “Billions” Showtime)
• Nathan Felder — “The Curse” (Showtime)
• Daryl McCormack — “The Woman in the Wall” (Showtime)
• Sam Heughan — “Outlander” (Starz)
• Joseph Sikora — “Power Book IV: Force” (Starz)
• Zackary Arthur — “ Chucky ” (Syfy)
• Brad Dourif — “ Chucky ” (Syfy)

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2023 category winner : Kieran Culkin as Roman Roy — “Succession” (HBO) — Season 4

2024 Emmy Awards Calendar and Timeline (all dates are subject to change)

• Eligibility period: June 1, 2023 – May 31, 2024
• Feb. 29: Submissions open
• May 9: Deadline for programs that identify as Primetime programming to upload all entry materials.
• June 13: Nominations-round voting begins
• June 24: Nominations-round voting ends at 10:00 p.m. PT
• June 28 – July 8: Voting for peer group-specific top ten rounds panels (if applicable)
• July 17: Primetime Emmy nominations are announced.
• July 24: Deadline for errors and omissions to the nominations.
• August 5: Find-round videos available for viewing.
• August 15: Final-round voting begins.
• August 26: Final-round voting ends at 10:00 p.m. PST.
• Sept. 7-8: Creative Arts Emmy Awards and Governors Gala
• Sunday, Sept. 15: 76th Primetime Emmy Awards to air on ABC.

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The Primetime Emmy Awards, commonly known as the Emmys, are awarded by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS). Established in 1949, these celebrate outstanding achievements in American primetime television. The Emmys are categorized into three divisions: the Primetime Emmy Awards for performance and production excellence, the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards recognizing achievements in artistry and craftsmanship, and the Primetime Engineering Emmy Awards, which honor significant engineering and technological advancements. The eligibility period typically extends from June 1 to May 31 each year. The Television Academy, which hosts the Emmys, consists of over 20,000 members across 30 professional peer groups, including performers, directors, producers, art directors, artisans and executives.

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'The Morning Show' review: Season 3 gets lost in space, despite terrific Reese Witherspoon

In its crackpot new season, “The Morning Show” doesn’t just jump the shark. It literally hurls itself into space.

When we pick up with Season 3 of the Apple TV+ drama (★★; streaming Wednesday, then weekly), veteran newscaster Alex Levy ( Jennifer Aniston ) is preparing to shoot a segment aboard a tourist spacecraft as its tech billionaire owner ( Jon Hamm ) negotiates to buy the network. But after a spat with her double-dealing boss ( Billy Crudup ), Alex blows off the broadcast at the last minute, forcing another familiar face to launch into orbit without any prior training or preparation.

No longer content to merely defy logic, "The Morning Show" fully incinerates it this year. During a building-wide power outage caused by a potential gunman, evening news anchor Bradley Jackson ( Reese Witherspoon ) opts not to go into lockdown with her colleagues. Instead, she hops into an elevator, which predictably breaks down and traps her inside. Later in the season, Alex is shocked when her reporting is overshadowed by her high-profile office romance – a relationship that violates all sorts of journalism ethics, apparently a foreign concept to anyone at the fictional UBA network.

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Flummoxing choices combined with ham-fisted dialogue make for a sort of Lynchian fever dream that is strangely addictive the more you watch. Like a car crash, or Max's similarly batty "Sex and the City" sequel, you simply can't look away.

When “The Morning Show” does succeed, it’s because of its performances. Greta Lee (“Past Lives”) and Karen Pittman (“And Just Like That …”) are captivating standouts as Stella Bak and Mia Jordan: two women of color navigating a minefield of power dynamics at the network.

Nicole Beharie also delivers a searing turn as Christina Hunter, a newly hired anchor who learns she was the target of a racist remark by longtime UBA chairwoman Cybil Richards (Holland Taylor). In a tense on-air interview, Christina confronts Cybil about diversity practices and her inherent racism, proving that the series is capable of nuance when it allows its characters to just sit in a moment for longer than five seconds.

With her disgraced (and now deceased) former co-host Mitch Kessler (Steve Carrell) out of the picture, Aniston’s Alex is oddly given very little to do in the season’s first half, although her coverage of Roe v. Wade takes center stage in later episodes. Bradley is also saddled with some of the show’s most far-fetched storylines, but Witherspoon's exceptional performance grounds the material.

She’s deeply affecting in a flashback to the first year of the pandemic, as Bradley quarantines with then-girlfriend Laura Peterson (Julianna Marguiles, making a welcome return to the series). Isolation and a COVID-related death eat away at Bradley, who struggles to let her guard down with Laura.

In the season's wildest sequence, we discover that Bradley was inside the U.S. Capitol as it was being stormed by right-wing extremists on Jan. 6, 2021. Her incriminating smartphone footage of the attack opens up some intriguing narrative doors, as long as you don't think about them for too long.

Like other dramas that have attempted to comment on current politics, including HBO's "Succession" and "The Newsroom," "The Morning Show" can't keep up with the hamster wheel of 24/7 media coverage. The series rehashes debates around masks and vaccines with no fresh insight, and limply attempts to satirize Elon Musk though Hamm's character, while the real figure still looms larger and more ludicrous. Discussions about abortion and Ukraine also very rarely go beyond surface level.

Unenviably, "The Morning Show" can never quite shake the feeling that it’s old news. But with a cast this starry – and this committed – at the anchor desk, it's hard to stop tuning in.