TV review: The Veil is a vanilla thriller — but it ticks the genre boxes

The Veil is by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, so it looks great and keeps you guessing. And it has Josh Charles playing Max Peterson, a CIA guy described as ‘the most American American from America.’

Elisabeth Moss stars in The Veil.

The Veil (RTÉ One and RTÉ Player) has attracted some cranky reviews, but I liked what I saw. 

It’s a vanilla thriller that raises a nod to the best TV show of all time, The Bureau. This one has Elisabeth Moss playing Imogen, an MI6 agent sent to a refugee camp in Syria to extract a suspected female Isis leader, Adilah.