Bodyguard BBC1 Sunday

[vinteuil]

Keeley Hawes?

Keeley Hawes AND Gina McKee




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[DracoM]

[muzzer]

Enjoyed this a lot, looking forward to this evening’s episode. Chuckled audibly at the Home Office being set in New Street Square, last seen in the disastrous Sweeney remake.

[Serial_Apologist]

Enjoyed this a lot, looking forward to this evening’s episode. Chuckled audibly at the Home Office being set in New Street Square, last seen in the disastrous Sweeney remake.

Well spotted, and well remembered, muzzer!

I figured the bonking scene would take place in episode 2!

[Pianorak]

Just caught up with Episode 1. "I'm mixed race". - One way to stop a Chief Whip in his tracks. Clever line.

[DracoM]

Second epi: a tissue of disappointingly predictable and extended cliches, Jed..............oh dear.
Staying with it, but.................

[LMcD]

Well spotted, and well remembered, muzzer!

I figured the bonking scene would take place in episode 2!

It did have an air of inevitability about it, didn't it? But I shall stick with it!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

It did have an air of inevitability about it, didn't it?

Yes - which is why I was hoping they'd avoid it: it would have been less clichéd, more convincing, and as far as I'm concerned, a damn sight sexier if they'd resisted the temptation. (Though I presume it's going to have some unavoidable significance to the plot development.)

But I shall stick with it!

Up to the heavy breathing, it had been great fun.

[vinteuil]

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... o deary me, such a shame. It wd have been so much more stylish to have kept some sexual frisson and avoided the bonking. That beautiful moment in the earlier series of 'Unforgotten' when poor Sunny made an ill-advised move on Cassie, and we all cringed on our sofas - and the relief when it swerved away from that avenue.

Yes, it remains great fun. But plausibility has obviously been discarded as unnecessary. His leaving his chief responsibility - his post in the armour-plated bullet-proof limo with the Home Sec - to single-handedly storm the building and confront the shooter?

How was it that a bullet penetrated the limo to splatter the brains of the chauffeur - yet no other bullet attained its objective?

We may have known that the lorry speeding down the road had ill intention - but the staff and kiddies in the playground did not have that knowledge, and their rapid organized scarpering was not probable.

Looking forward to future stand-offs between Keeley Hawes and Gina McKee.

Enjoying the macchiavellian head of MI5.

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[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

No budget for bullet-proof glass, it seems!

(Nor, it appears, for Security Officers to have a special, "work-only" Mobile Phone.)

[LMcD]

Rather than concern myself with all these details and implausibilties, I'm happy to just let myself be swept along by it. My one gripe is the plethora of acronyms and abbreviations, but again I just let them sail over my head - they don't disturb the flow of the drama.

[Serial_Apologist]

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... o deary me, such a shame. It wd have been so much more stylish to have kept some sexual frisson and avoided the bonking. That beautiful moment in the earlier series of 'Unforgotten' when poor Sunny made an ill-advised move on Cassie, and we all cringed on our sofas - and the relief when it swerved away from that avenue.

Yes, it remains great fun. But plausibility has obviously been discarded as unnecessary. His leaving his chief responsibility - his post in the armour-plated bullet-proof limo with the Home Sec - to single-handedly storm the building and confront the shooter?

How was it that a bullet penetrated the limo to splatter the brains of the chauffeur - yet no other bullet attained its objective?

We may have known that the lorry speeding down the road had ill intention - but the staff and kiddies in the playground did not have that knowledge, and their rapid organized scarpering was not probable.

Looking forward to future stand-offs between Keeley Hawes and Gina McKee.

Enjoying the macchiavellian head of MI5.

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The taking of the building was personal, so that would corroborate with "issues". As to the driver's demise, his window might have been open - one would have to re-reel to that scene.

[Pianorak]

. ... o deary me, such a shame. It wd have been so much more stylish to have kept some sexual frisson and avoided the bonking. . . .

This is BBC1 fare, not your BBC4!

[johncorrigan]

I'm enjoying it with some reservations, but where it suffers in comparison to Line of Duty, in my opinion, is a likeable character or two.

[muzzer]

I think you can only set so many hares running in the conspiracy theory stakes before straining the bounds of credibility too far...