Bodyguard BBC1 Sunday

[eighthobstruction]

'Do you think I'm room service?'

Seriously, this series is not about memorable or insightful dialogue: it's about innutritious thrills. It doesn't pretend to be about anything else!

....god, is that what it has come to....jeez....pwhsssssh....

[jayne lee wilson]

'Do you think I'm room service?'

Seriously, this series is not about memorable or insightful dialogue: it's about innutritious thrills. It doesn't pretend to be about anything else!

Yes that was a good one.... (not to go too far OT, but...https://www.google.com/search?q=true...xW0gndCtQ6U2M:

"pure gold" indeed....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtmJgsPJ6Tw

[Conchis]

Yes that was a good one.... (not to go too far OT, but...https://www.google.com/search?q=true...xW0gndCtQ6U2M:

"pure gold" indeed....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtmJgsPJ6Tw

I’m actually glad that Bodyguard eschews ‘long speeches’ and crackerbarrel philosophy of that kind.

[DracoM]

Indeed, but trying to be objective, I'd say that there is precious LITTLE meaningful dialogue at all! Certainly not much of an explanatory, expository nature. Huge amount of televisuals / editing / soundtrack. Sorry, but it feels very American, very exportable, and rather more so than Line of Duty, where procedure, and patient piecing together and above all, closely scripted and brilliantly acted 'chamber drama' were the essence, and made for gripping TV. .

Madden, McKee and Hawes are very fine, fine actors but being woefully under-used. It's frittering away top quality IMO.

Maybe I'm totally on my own here?

[eighthobstruction]

Madden, McKee and Hawes are very fine, fine actors but being woefully under-used. It's frittering away top quality IMO.

Maybe I'm totally on my own here?

....for what it's worth, I'm with you on that....

Ref USA productions....as JLW says, there are 'some' that do everything that is needed -casting, plot, dialogue, denoument....many are trash....I've just being watching ER again....excellent [a bit too quick on it's feet, but the lives and personalities of thecast draw me in)....I've just been watching GB Unforgiven trilogy and Scott and Bailey very good once you have the ability to avoid the adverts....lovely entertainment and acting etc....

[jayne lee wilson]

I’m actually glad that Bodyguard eschews ‘long speeches’ and crackerbarrel philosophy of that kind.

You're a hopeless case then!
Big hugs anyway

Each to her own, so it goes. I find that scene and many others, profoundly moving, and helpful IRL, through extremes of my own...

[muzzer]

....for what it's worth, I'm with you on that....

Ref USA productions....as JLW says, there are 'some' that do everything that is needed -casting, plot, dialogue, denoument....many are trash....I've just being watching ER again....excellent [a bit too quick on it's feet, but the lives and personalities of thecast draw me in)....I've just been watching GB Unforgiven trilogy and Scott and Bailey very good once you have the ability to avoid the adverts....lovely entertainment and acting etc....

I rewatched ER recently and found it really involving, at least the first seasons, though that may in part have been nostalgia. Easy to forget medical dramas always have the gore to shock you with if the stories drag. Most tv drama these days is pure adrenalin. I’ve just seen Killing Eve, which was very engrossing but mainly preposterous.

[jayne lee wilson]

I rewatched ER recently and found it really involving, at least the first seasons, though that may in part have been nostalgia. Easy to forget medical dramas always have the gore to shock you with if the stories drag. Most tv drama these days is pure adrenalin. I’ve just seen Killing Eve, which was very engrossing but mainly preposterous.

Last shameless OT medical-drama comment - I still miss House...

[Conchis]

I've started watching Line Of Duty and I think I see what DracoM means......LoD is targeted at people with longer attention spans and more interest in character development and convoluted storylines. Bodyguard, by contrast, is unashamedly aimed at couch potatoes who want thrills! action! sex! As I can occupy both camps depending on my mood, I have time for both approaches. I'm sure a lot of people who have stuck with Bodyguard over three episodes would have given up on LoD less than twenty minutes into episode one.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I'm sure a lot of people who have stuck with Bodyguard over three episodes would have given up on LoD less than twenty minutes into episode one.

Certainly true that series 1 - 3 of LoD (shown on BBC2) got much fewer viewers than Bodyguard, but series 4 (shown on BBC1, like Bodyguard) achieved greater parity (9.55 million for the series average, with 10.4 million for the series finale - the same as the viewing figures of episode 1 of Bodyguard).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Line_of_Duty_episodes#Series_overview

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/sep/04/bbcs-bodyguard-series-most-successful-new-drama-in-10-years

[Conchis]

Certainly true that series 1 - 3 of LoD (shown on BBC2) got much fewer viewers than Bodyguard, but series 4 (shown on BBC1, like Bodyguard) achieved greater parity (9.55 million for the series average, with 10.4 million for the series finale - the same as the viewing figures of episode 1 of Bodyguard).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Line_of_Duty_episodes#Series_overview

https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...ma-in-10-years

I'm enjoying series 1. Unusually for me, I've not looked ahead for spoilers (I'm normally more interested in how a story is told than how it ends), which is a good sign.

There is talk of Bodyguard being the 'most-watched drama of the multi-channel era'.

[Serial_Apologist]

I'm enjoying series 1. Unusually for me, I've not looked ahead for spoilers (I'm normally more interested in how a story is told than how it ends), which is a good sign.

There is talk of Bodyguard being the 'most-watched drama of the multi-channel era'.

Well, I've only got two-channel ear 'oles.

[Conchis]

Really getting into Line Of Duty.

I spent most of Series 2 episode 1 wondering when Keely Hawes was going to show up.....! :)

So, this is another argument for Bodyguard: it's encouraged viewers to look at the creator's previous works.

[DracoM]

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/sep/06/bodyguard-the-return-of-watercooler-tv

Well, the BBC may be strutting and preening, but the online responses to this article are by no means undiluted praise - far from it.
Maybe people are hanging on in the hopes that a Mercurio-scripted drama can actually at last ignite - as others of his have.

Hmm - interesting?

[Conchis]

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-r...watercooler-tv

Well, the BBC may be strutting and preening, but the online responses to this article are by no means undiluted praise - far from it.
Maybe people are hanging on in the hopes that a Mercurio-scripted drama can actually at last ignite - as others of his have.

Hmm - interesting?

Most of the critical respondents would seem to be policier connoisseurs who are necessarily difficult to please. Interesting that a lot of them use Line of Duty asa stick with which to beat Bodyguard.

Bodyguard is not aimed at connoisseurs or sophisticates but squarely at that mythical beast 'the general audience'. I gave up watching the revamped Doctor Who after the first season because it clearly wasn't aimed at me, so my taking up arms against its 'emotional' storylines and camp humour would be a bit pointless.