New Financial Year 2024/2025 Streaming - Red Eye - miniseries

OK, another UK binge, in record time. This time around, Red Eye which landed on Stan back in April.

Red Eye stars Richard Armitage (Spooks, The Hobbit) and Jing Lusi (Crazy Rich Asians, Gangs of London - also on Stan, where I just started season two today). When Dr. Matthew Nolan (Armitage) is renditioned to China from the UK, inexplicable deaths onboard the red eye flight raise suspicions. 

Hana Li (Lusi), the police officer escorting Nolan, forms an unlikely alliance with Head of MI5 Madeleine Delaney and journalist Jess Li, her sister, work to uncover a wider global conspiracy. 

The six-part British thriller has Hijack vibes from Apple TV+ with the dreamy Idris Elba. For me Hijack was the better series and I for one cannot wait for season two.

However back to this Stan series, where Lesley Sharp also stars on this all-night flight between London and Beijing.

Spoiler alert below for those like me that slept on this fun, high-energy flight. I honestly felt bad for the other passengers on this mad flight. However it was a fun, easy watch with each episode just spinning past.

In episode six it kicks off with flashback scene, CIA operatives led by Mike Maxwell monitor Nolan and Shen Zhào at the night club as part of an American operation to sabotage the Anglo-Chinese nuclear deal.

After failing to stop Zhào from injecting the nano SIM card into Nolan, Maxwell and Eric Jones murder her and plant her body in Nolan's car. Hana and Nolan's plane lands at a British military airbase in London but escape Tennant and MI6 with the help of Delaney and Jess. 

Meanwhile, British security forces identify Zhang and the other operative as freelancers working for a CIA shell company. At the US Embassy, Nolan recognizes that one of the Embassy staff was a staff member at the Beijing night club. Suspecting that the CIA have drugged their drinks Nolan, Hana, Jess, and Delaney overpower their CIA captors. 

Maxwell attempts to stop them from leaving the Embassy but Jess hands him a Vodafone chip, which he mistakes for the SIM card. After escaping the Embassy, the four send the file to Tennant, exposing a CIA cyber-operation to cause a meltdown in one of the Anglo-Chinese nuclear power plants in order to damage Sino-British relations. 

Maxwell tracks Hana, Nolan, and Delaney down to the grounds of the Chinese Embassy. Maxwell shoots Nolan but is arrested by Chinese soldiers and handed over to Minister Tang to face justice for Zhào's murder. While recovering in hospital, Nolan proposes to Hana. 

To avoid damaging United Kingdom-United States relations by exposing the CIA plot, Delaney allows Hana to break a story about MI6 using doctors as unwitting couriers for intelligence operations. During a family gathering, Hana provides her father with files on her mother supplied by the British government.

There are many twists and turns in this fast paced series. You never really know who is good and who is rotten to the core. Across the six episodes there is double crossing, corruption and a fair share of murders on the plane.

There is so much content coming and going on streaming services right now, it's hard to keep up! Hoping over the weekend I can head to the movies too, to bring some cinema to the blog. It's been a hot minute again.

Happy weekend ahead!