A new "darkly funny" thriller series with a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score just landed on Netflix – and a second season is already on the way

Ben Whishaw as Sam and Keira Knightley as Helen in Netflix's Black Doves
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Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw's new spy thriller series B𝓀lack Doves has just landed on Netflix – and it's proving to be a festive, fun treat.

Both critics and subscribers se👍em to be loving the show already, judging by its perfect 100% and the praise it's getting on social media.

Also starring True Detect⛎ive: Night Country's Finn Bennett, Fool Me Once's Adeel Akhtar, and Happy Valley's Sarah Lancashire, the six-par🐼ter released in entirety on December 5 and follows undercover agent Helen (Knightley), who's posing as a politician's wife while feeding government secrets to the group she works for. Later, she teams up with her bestie Sam (Whishaw), who just so happens to be an assassin, to exact revenge on those who killed her boyfriend.

"Black😼 Doves is a little bit Slow Horses, a little bit John Wick, a little bit Killing E𓆉ve... But still it's own VERY entertaining beast," . "Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw have incredible BFF chemistry, would happily watch multiple seasons of them together.

"Am I already on꧃ ep 4 of Black Doves? Yes I🌠 am, thank-you very much. #glued," .

"Black Doves: stumbles a bit at the end but the vast majority of this is a fun, poppy 90's spy thriller in the Shane Black framework. Knightley tapping into her movie star charisma and ably paired with Whishaw doing his best John Wick, their chemistry keeping it all toget🍷her," .

Black Doves is streaming now. Those who🐽've enjoyed season🐼 1 need not worry about its future, either, as . Looks like it'll avoid Netflix's all too frequent one-and-done fate...

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Amy West

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