After a decade-long wait, The Night Manager has returned to our screens for a second season – and it's been just as gripping as ever.
Nine years on from where season 1 left off, the twisty, turny spy thriller starring Tom Hiddleston sees his character Jonathan Pine going undercover as a low-level MI6 agent. Only this time, he's adopted the alias of Alex Goodwin.
But it isn't just the plot that fans are obsessing over, for just as breathtaking are the filming locations that serve as gorgeous backdrops to each scene.
“There were no studio shoots whatsoever,” explained producer Matthew Patnick to Condé Nast Traveller. “So every location that you see is an actual location; from the hotel in Cartagena, to Teddy's Villa – the big party where Pine gets to meet Roxy for the second time – is an actual location. So every location that we filmed in was a real location.”
The good news is that many of the locations are based here in the UK. As Patnick says, we are “back in London” as the show opens, “establishing London as Pine's home and the new life that he has found himself in as a night owl working night surveillance.”
The production team set up camp across the city, filming in Notting Hill, Holland Park, Kentish Town, and on the South Bank. (The Night Manager walking tour, when?).
However, the cosy, homey London vibes don't last for long. Jonathan/Alex soon finds himself jetting off around the world on another spy mission, heading to Colombia to expose a conspiratorial plot involving arms dealing and an entire guerrilla army.
Here's everything you need to know.
Where was The Night Manager season 2 filmed?
As mentioned, Pine begins his journey with a new job and identity. Now known as Alex Goodwin, he is working as a low-level MI6 officer leading a small team in London known as the Night Owls. His office is in a charming little Holland Park mews – or rather, it seems to be. Once he steps inside, the interior of the building is actually filmed inside a building in Barcelona.
“Tom goes through that door in London and three months later he's inside,” Patnick told Time Out.
After finishing a relatively easy day's work in Holland Park, Pine/Goodwin heads back to his flat on the South Bank, overlooking the Thames. As Patnick explains, he and the team wanted to include the river to remind viewers that we are firmly in London as the season begins – so naturally, they filmed on location.
The team also spent some time filming at Aldwych Station, a station in Westminster that closed for business in 1994. It now opens only for tours – and the odd film crew. You'll spot the station in the opening episode.
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Pine meets Roxana in this restaurant, a swish, chic Mediterranean spot with brick walls and warm, burgundy interiors.
Richard Roper's son Danny becomes part of the story in season 2. Pine ventures to his school to meet with him – it was filmed in Wellington College, Berkshire, a co-ed boarding and day school in Crowthorne.
Pine also finds himself meeting with Sally and Basil in a remote cottage. These scenes were filmed in Three Cliffs Bay, Wales, which provided the perfect gloomy, atmospheric backdrop. “It was as cold and wet and windy as it appears!” says Patnick.
You'll also spot the idyllic Richmond-upon-Thames, which provided the backdrop for an early operation.
This cemetery was used as the location for a funeral scene.
In the final episode, we see Roper driving through the Cotswolds in a blacked-out Range Rover.
Pine soon makes his way to Colombia, where the plot really begins to unravel. The team chose the city of Medellin, just north of the country's capital of Bogota.
“I ended up in Medellin and suddenly in front of me was The Night Manager,” recalls Patnick. “It was opulent and visually exciting, it had contrasting areas, it was cinematic, it had scale. And the Colombia Film Commission were so helpful and supportive.”
Pine spends some time in the breathtaking hills outside of Medellin. This is where the incredible modern mansion sits towering above the city below.
We also spend some time in the port of Cartagena filming some key sequences. One particular Cartagena hotel, Casa Pestagua boutique hotel, has a starring role in the series.
In scenes set in the Medellin gun club, tennis court, and Medellin restaurants, the crew set up camp at the beautiful Hotel La Gavina. It took on the title of Medellin Gun Club for the show.
A great deal of filming occurred in Barcelona.
One of the most dramatic sequences took place in a magnificent hotel where an abduction takes place. The crew chose the grand Torre Melina Gran Melià in Barcelona, close to where they filmed shots of the interior of Pine's Holland Park office.
Teddy’s glamorous charity party in episode two — where the go-between Roxana Bolaños, played by Camila Morrone, stuns in that iconic red dress — was filmed at Barcelona’s naval college, Facultad de Náutica, in the scenic Barceloneta district.
Meanwhile, the conference centre attached to Barcelona’s Gran Meliá Hotel doubled as the luxurious Cartagena stay for Pine’s character, adding an elegant European backdrop to the season’s romantic escapades.
A few moments were filmed in Tenerife, which stood in for Syria, where the first season was set.
The desirable French retreat to which Olivia Colman’s character, Angela Burr, had semi-retired was actually in the Spanish Pyrenees. This is also where we see her last in the season.
Season 2 of The Night Manager is available to watch on BBC iPlayer and BBC One.
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