Binge it! - Fleming

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Here is another mini series I've been watching recently and I really liked. It is called Fleming – The Man Who Would be Bond, and is a fictionalised biography about Ian Fleming, the author of the famous James Bond books. This mini series focuses on his life from 1938 to 1952, and draws Fleming's romantic adventures as well as his espionage for the British Royal Navy.

Dominic Cooper plays Fleming's role, while actress Lara Pulver plays his love interest Ann O'Neill.

The series only lasts 4 episodes, and you can basically watch it in a couple of days. I really liked it, the costumes, the scenography, setting and acting, everything is very good. The story is pretty interesting too, and even though Fleming's life has been very much fictionalised, the spectator can't but be charmed by this man adventures.

At the beginning of the series Fleming is drawn as a dissolute playboy, living on his family wealth, and eclipsed by his father and older brother successes. He likes women and basically changes one every day, until he meets Ann O'Neill, the Viscountess Rothermere, with whom he falls in love. The two are going to have an affair, and I don't want to SPOILER here, but if know a little bit about Fleming's life, you will probably know that Ann is going to become his wife.

Later on in the series Fleming works with the Royal Navy against the Nazi, and his strategies will be essential during the war; so much the the Americans will ask him to write a blueprint of the Office of Strategic Services.

A series I would recommend to watch, it is very pleasant and interesting, not only if you like the character of James Bond.