Bodyguard BBC1 Sunday

[Conchis]

I'm just wondering how the actor's union took having Laura Kuenssberg and other official BBC reporters etc in the cast.

Equity has a special arrangement by which 'non-performers' can become members in circumstances like this. The Beatles famously became members of Equity the day before A Hard Day's Night began shooting. And in America, Donald Trump is a member of the Screen Actors' Guild.

[Conchis]

Interestingly, several people were speculating both on these threads and elsewhere that something odd was going / had been going on behind the scenes of the show to produce so bafflingly incomplete a series of sequences that has left more than a few head-scratching.

I don't get any sense of incompleteness, but I'd imagine several 'alternate' sequences were filmed, along with multiple different 'endings'.

[Serial_Apologist]

I don't get any sense of incompleteness, but I'd imagine several 'alternate' sequences were filmed, along with multiple different 'endings'.

Such being life... according to the Uncertainty Principle.

[kernelbogey]

- except that, by making this announcement, he's removed the "is she/isn't she" fun.

Unless he's fibbing, of course.

Perhaps he is.... so the authorities put out the story that she's dead, to smoke out the deep state conspirators...? While all the while she's in her hospital bed, pining for her copper.

[Conchis]

Perhaps he is.... so the authorities put out the story that she's dead, to smoke out the deep state conspirators...? While all the while she's in her hospital bed, pining for her copper.

Not sure why her ex-husband (was it?) was given the news that she'd died? They didn't like it each other much.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Not sure why her ex-husband (was it?) was given the news that she'd died? They didn't like it each other much.

Nearest she has to "next of kin"?

Cheer him up??

[subcontrabass]

Not sure why her ex-husband (was it?) was given the news that she'd died? They didn't like it each other much.

He appeared to be accompanying (or be accompanied by) an older woman that I took to be her mother.

[Conchis]

He appeared to be accompanying (or be accompanied by) an older woman that I took to be her mother.

Yes, her mother was there, too. I don't think she'd have wanted her ex-husband at her death scene.

[Nick Armstrong]

Trust no-one...
I'd imagine the previous 2 messages will be particularly annoying for the 1 viewer in 3 who's watching this series some time after it is first broadcast.

I ignore this thread until after I've seen the latest episode

Glad I'd watched the first half of the latest before my Radio Times tumbled onto the mat though!

[Conchis]

No thoughts on last night's episode?

I think after 1-3, the last two have dropped into a lower gear, and that is surely deliberate.

It sounds like Budd and Lavender's 'summits' were indeed recorded; so, yes, they were careless...

Not sure how Budd knew the copy of the 'kompromat' (if that's what it was) was behind the photo in Julia's flat (2 questions attach to that 1) how did Budd manage to gain access to the flat after he'd been 'fired'? and 2) what was an ambitious politician like Julia doing with a phograph of herself posing with an abject failure like David Cameron on prominent display?)

[DracoM]

Not sure how Budd knew the copy of the 'compromat' (if that's what it was) was behind the photo in Julia's flat (2 questions attach to that 1) how did Budd manage to gain access to the flat after he'd been 'fired'? and 2) what was an ambitious politician like Julia doing with a phograph of herself posing with an abject failure like David Cameron on prominent display?)

[Conchis]

I also didn't get the idea that Julia's aide had been taking her out on a date in episode 3 and that Budd perceived him as having been humiliated? A bit of a inept move on the aide's case, whatever his motivation (and I'm sure it wasn't romantic).

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I also didn't get the idea that Julia's aide had been taking her out on a date in episode 3 and that Budd perceived him as having been humiliated? A bit of a inept move on the aide's case, whatever his motivation (and I'm sure it wasn't romantic).

The "Previously on ... " introduction to the episode reminded us of his attempt to turn the meeting into a date, and that he'd been very clearly put in his place. The look on his face as Julia turned down his invitation showed that he wasn't expecting to be so treated, and that he was expecting (or at least "hoping for") extra-curricular activities to result. (Whether these were, or could be described as, "romantic" is another matter.)

Rather a slow-paced, and even mostly dull, episode last night, I thought.

[Conchis]

The "Previously on ... " introduction to the episode reminded us of his attempt to turn the meeting into a date, and that he'd been very clearly put in his place. The look on his face as Julia turned down his invitation showed that he wasn't expecting to be so treated, and that he was expecting (or at least "hoping for") extra-curricular activities to result. (Whether these were, or could be described as, "romantic" is another matter.)

Rather a slow-paced, and even mostly dull, episode last night, I thought.

Hard to believe a man could be so deluded (but, of course, men are!). Isn't it part of Political Aide training 101 that you don't try anything on with your boss (though that doesn't bar your boss from trying something on with you). I must have missed that moment because it seemed so preposterously unlikely.

[Conchis]

Just to put things in perspective....after Bodyguard, I watched the first episode of Killing Eve, a new thriller over which soi-disant 'highbrow' critics and intellectuals are fawning, no doubt dazzled by the fact that it's adapted by a newly-trendy scriptwriter. Oh, dear: a VERY uneasy mix of low comedy and violence with principal characters who strive to be endearing but aren't and (if you're looking for them) plot-holes through which a pantechnicon could fall. Give me Bodyguard's straightforward sex and thrills combination over this any day of the week....