{"id":915,"date":"2025-07-22T17:50:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T17:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/draplenvuxio.com\/?p=915"},"modified":"2025-07-23T09:44:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:44:27","slug":"steven-knights-utterly-compelling-thriller-series-quietly-added-to-free-streaming-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/draplenvuxio.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/22\/steven-knights-utterly-compelling-thriller-series-quietly-added-to-free-streaming-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Knight\u2019s \u2018utterly compelling\u2019 thriller series quietly added to free streaming service"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A week after her long-running series<\/a> The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/a> came to an end, UK fans can now binge <\/a>an \u2018underrated\u2019 thriller starring Elisabeth Moss<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Released on Hulu in the US and on Disney<\/a> Plus locally last year, The Veil was written by Steven Knight<\/a>, best known for creating Peaky Blinders<\/a> and SAS: Rogue Heroes.<\/p>\n

Ahead of its release<\/a>, it was teased the cat-and-mouse storyline would appeal to fans of Killing Eve<\/a> and promised to keep viewers on the edge of their seats.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Veil explores the surprising and fraught relationship between two women who play a deadly game of truth and lies on the road from Istanbul to Paris and London,\u2019 the official synopsis said.<\/p>\n

\u2018One woman has a secret, the other a mission to reveal it before thousands of lives are lost. In the shadows, mission controllers at the CIA and French DGSE must put differences aside and work together to avert potential disaster.\u2019<\/p>\n

Elisabeth plays Imogen Salter, a veteran MI6 agent with a specialty in undercover work.<\/p>\n

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This week Channel 4 uploaded the entire series to its streaming service.<\/p>\n<p>Although the six-episode series divided critics and fans, those who did love it gave glowing reviews.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Exciting and astonishing, The Veil beautifully balances stunt-filled escapades and a rich narrative,\u2019 Variety wrote.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"372\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-23724142 lazyload\" alt=\"The Veil (Picture: FX)\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/draplenvuxio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/SEI_259755169-fe31.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>It was originally released last year and is now available on Channel 4 (Picture: FX)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u2018Overall, The Veil seems like a fun show to get lost in as you unravel the mystery each week,\u2019 Common Sense Media shared.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018By the end of the six episodes of The Veil, I was convinced that this is Moss\u2019 best role, and best performance, yet. She\u2019s amazing,\u2019 NPR added.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile fans said it was \u2018utterly compelling\u2019, \u2018underrated\u2019 and \u2018full of constant twists\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>After her breakout role as Zoey Bartlet in The West Wing, Moss went on to star as Peggy Olson in Mad Men, before playing June\/ Offred in The Handmaid\u2019s Tale, which ran from 2017 until this year.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to RTE ahead of the initial premiere of The Veil, the actress said this had been one of her hardest roles to date.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"1005\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-23725528 lazyload\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/draplenvuxio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2177995657.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>The series was created by Peaky Blinders\u2019 Steven Knight (Picture: Alan Chapman\/ Dave Benett\/ WireImage)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u2018It was much more challenging than I\u2019ve ever experienced given the different skills and different things I had to do with the dialect, the stunts, fight training, and speaking a couple of different languages here and there, and then traveling around the world, so it definitely felt like, if possible, I\u2019ve found something even more challenging than The Handmaid\u2019s Tale,\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n<p>During filming she even fractured a vertebrae in her back, an injury that left her lying on a roof in Istanbul for two hours.<\/p>\n<p>After \u2018hitting a wall the wrong way\u2019 when undertaking a stunt, Moss was still determined to push on and was back on set the next day, but with limited mobility.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I didn\u2019t know if we were going to be able to come back and shoot on this rooftop in the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul. 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