Bodyguard

Some binges feel like a slog. Bodyguard is more of a race, well worth the run. Some elements of the series struck me as odd, including what seems an endorsement of the surveillance state, and certain climactic revelations had me talking to the screen.

But the action is well mounted and the tension tightly wound; it uncoils, when it does, with a satisfying snap. New York Magazine Vulture. The plot is determined to make us change our minds about who could be a mole every ten minutes. But ultimately, Bodyguard is an exhilarating ride that truly showcases Madden as a major talent.

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The New York Times. Madden does such a fantastic job as the lead in this show and is the real highlight of it. This show is definitely gonna be his platform to Madden does such a fantastic job as the lead in this show and is the real highlight of it. This show is definitely gonna be his platform to become an even bigger star than he already is. As for the show, It reminds me a bit of Homeland but it's shorter and more to the point, There's a lot less filler and sub-plots and that is a major plus.

And there's plenty of action and suspense to keep you on edge while the well-written story plays out. What I like most is that it grips you from the first episode and keeps you invested until the very end and they don't do some cheap cop out with the ending either, It's satisfying and wraps everything up. What would you expect from the writer of 'Line of Duty'? Completely gripping, beautifully written, acted and filmed. There are probably too many twists, some of which are really hard to accept or believe, but the 6-episode format Overall worth watching.

There are probably too many twists, some of which are really hard to accept or believe, but the 6-episode format really kept the action moving. TV with a finish line is so much better than TV that keeps getting stretched out for endless episodes. Probably would work better as 8 episodes. This review contains spoilers , click expand to view.

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After two episodes, I'm really enjoying the series. However, I'm extremely disappointed that they wound up in bed together.

I mean, how cliched can we get? Didn't seem to need that. When it's good it's very, very good, and when it's bad it's horrid. Plenty of plot twists and one big one at the end is bound to make many groan at the screen.

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They drag out the final big scene which in real life would have ended by our hero getting to the point more quickly. Many of the professionals come across as nitwits, but then that may be because they're not in on the real machinations that viewers are. The last half hour doesn't build as much as let the air out. As a Brit, utterly confused by this show and its popularity.

It's not a patch on Mercurio's Earlier work with Line Of Duty being uniformly As a Brit, utterly confused by this show and its popularity. It goes from po-faced to farcical, with frustratingly stupid character arcs and daft situations. It's like Homeland season one, without any genuine drama. T he BBC has, to use a technical term, smashed it: But it also smashed the past decade, with the largest audience for a drama debut since , and its own career-best: Before we do the obligatory spoiler alert, is this show, in fact, unspoilable?

The actor and writer Riz Ahmed described the cultural trajectory he has lived through to the New York Times last week: Everyone is talking about it, and everyone has a view. But it takes us back even earlier, to when TV could thrill you all it liked, but at the same time be curiously comforting, the events it conjured up manageable, its dangers within the scope of human ingenuity to avert. Madden has been hovering over our screens like a premature death, like a relationship that finished before it was really, you know, over: Bespoke TV writing would never do such a thing: Hawes brings to her morally ambiguous role what you somehow divine as a deep moral purpose.

She is a conviction actor. It is something to do with the wisdom in her face, a sagacity that surfaced on Twitter with a pleasing, no-nonsense response to a Mail on Sunday article about how she had lost a stone to play the part because, an unnamed source said: But Mercurio, too, is exceptional, with a casual mastery of pace and character that render the inevitable debates about Bodyguard versus Line of Duty was the latter more sophisticated, because it was a bit less hooky? Or is the former more daring, because it gets straight to the dark heart of everything?

There is no accident to a Mercurio script. If you are still biting your nails an hour later, that was his design. The era of Bodyguard is ambiguous: There is none of our current febrile atmosphere, the sense that nobody knows where anything is headed: