La Mante, a French short series (six episodes, in French, subtitled) on Netflix. A serial killer, nicknamed 'La Mante' (The Mantis) decides to collaborate with the police when a string of murders that copycat her style suddenly appear.
I’m halfway through and really like it. Former Bond girl Carole Bouquet plays la mante. She certainly has aged beautifully.
For Your Eyes Only was the first Bond film I ever saw, so for a long time she was my favourite Bondgirl. Although in the end my favourite became Daniela Bianchi (From Russia with Love).
For Your Eyes Only was also the last Bondfilm to feature Blofeld before he finally returned in Spectre. In the prologue of For Your Eyes Only, Blofeld is unceremoniously dumped by Bond in a factory chimney from a helicopter. The (exquisitely shot) prologue of Spectre also featured a helicopter prominently (although Blofeld himself only appears later in the movie) - it felt to me almost like a way to link the two films, it could be coincidence of course.
I found it quite disappointing how they handled Spectre though in their self titled film. The idea of Quantum of Solace was to introduce a new organization similar to Spectre but not Spectre itself, but then it turns out Spectre is behind it all anyway and all the adversaries Craig had in his films - it was just too simple and lazily written.
Even though Daniel Craig got off to a superb start with Casino Royale, the subsequent movies disappointed mostly, Spectre being my favourite of the other three. Quantum of Solace is just underwhelming and Skyfall simply doesn't feel like a Bondfilm to me - it feels like a regular spy-thriller but misses that bit extra which makes a Bondfilm. Spectre does at least feel like a Bondfilm, but the writing is weak and the decision to give Bond and Blofeld a shared personal past is very questionable.
I hope Craig's last will be better written. In Bondfilms there are a lot of elements that can overtake the plot and make it secondary, but I feel that some of the best Bondfilms, certainly the early ones with Connery and some of the later ones as well, like For Your Eyes Only, The Living Daylights and Casino Royale have a good plot as well as all the spectacle. For Your Eyes Only is still one of my most favourite.