As I watched the 2022 five-episode British spy thriller series "Treason" on Netflix, a clue phone of sorts started ringing in my pea brain.
Without phones the whole thing would collapse.
Every couple minutes someone picks up their phone to send a message/receive one/make a call/receive one/track someone's location/listen to what surreptitious recording devices are picking up/watch live or recorded security camera footage etc.
How did it happen that there were great spy thrillers* long before mobile phones?
One more thing: the cast of "Treason" is excellent with one exception: the lead actor, Charlie Cox [above in the thumbnail], is completely miscast: he's a total lightweight and in no way, shape, or form plausible as assistant chief and then C at MI6.
He looks and acts more like the towel guy at a fitness gym.
Wait a sec — what's that song I'm hearing?
*"The Third Man," starring Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, and Trevor Howard, directed by Carol Reed with a screenplay written by Graham Greene, premiered in 1949.
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