have just see the a perfect spy mini series in one go and one can do nothing but doff one hat a pure masterpiece and which compare to the other le carré mini about smiley and have quite different quality . in the mini about smiley and it be alex guiness and a smiley and who steal the show the rest of the actor just support him and one can say . here it be ensemble and story that important and a the lead actor and play excellently by peter egan in the final episode and isn not charismatic at all . egan just play a guy call magnus pym and who by lie and be devious and tell people what they like to hear and be very well like by everyone and big and small . the only one who seem to understand his inner self be alex and his czech handler . never have the machinery behind a spy and and or or traitor and be tell well . after have follow his life from a very young age we fully understand what it be that make it possible to turn him into a traitor . his ability to lie and fake everything be what make him into a perfect spy and a his czech handler call him . and and by follow his life and we fully understand how difficult it be to get back to the straight and narrow path and once you have veer off it . he trundle on and even if he never get anything economic out of it and except promotion by his mi5 spy master . everyone happy and as long a the flow of faked information continue . magnus father and play wonderfully by ray mcanally and be a no good con man and who always dream up scheme to con people out of their money . in late year it be his son who have to bail him out and again and again . but by the example set by his dad and uncle and who take over a guardian when his father go to prison and and his mom be send off to an asylum and magnus quickly learn early that lie be the way of survive and not tell the truth . at first he overdo it a bit and but quickly learn to tell the right lie and and to be constant and not change the story from time to time that he tell those who want to listen about himself and his dad . his czech handler alex and expertly play by rüdiger weigang and creates and with the help of magnus and a network of non exist informant and which supply the british mi5 with fake information for year and and year and just a the british do with the german spy that be active in the uk before and during the war they keep on send fake information to das vaterland long after the agent themselves have be turn and liquidate or simply be replace by mi5 men . the young lad who play magnus in young year do it wonderfully and and most of them be more charismatic than the old and little more cynic and and tired and pym and play by egan . but you buy the difference easily and a that be often the way we change through life and from enthusiasm to sorrow and or indifference . indeed well worth the money .