Bodyguard BBC1 Sunday

[gurnemanz]

Agree with "enthralling" above. I also found the suicide vest scene overlong but can see why they did it. It bookended the long scene on the train right at the start. Don't agree that eveything has to do something to advance the plot.

[Conchis]

Some of the not-so good guys got away, didn't they? 'Richard Longcross' was released by court order and poor Julia died in vain, as her hard-right surveillance legislation was kicked into the long grass.

The replacement Home Sec looked totally out of his depth.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I think that I would have had fun deriding it if Budd had been freed from his smoking jacket in a couple of ... err ... ticks.

[Serial_Apologist]

You weren't. Congrats to Mr Mercurio for an enthralling thriller. Nice twist with Nadia but odd though that she, who was evidently a skilled bomb maker was to be blown up by her own creation in episode 1. Are skilled bomb-makers two-a-penny?

All part of the celestial road promised - except that (afaik) female candidates don't get the pick of male virgins in the next world... there aren't any.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

We never learned about Mrs. Budd's new bloke, did we?
I got the impression she'd just made him up so that Budd would stop bothering her.....

- as "he" didn't turn out in the final scene to be Julia herself, I presume that he was an invention - either to keep Budd away, or get him to shape up. Of course, he may appear in Series 2, where he turns out to be "Richard Longcross" ...

[Conchis]

Is there going to be a Series? Has it been confirmed?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Is there going to be a Series? Has it been confirmed?

I don't know - but if there is, everything's been nicely put into place for it.

[vinteuil]

Was I the only person watching who expected Budd's car to explode in the final frame?

... I indeed hoped for that. Anything to take away from the schmaltz ending - "Room for one more in the car?" - Puke! Perhaps they had an eye on a transatlantic purchaser...



And the suicide jacket stuff went on far too long.

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[Anastasius]

Last epi: utterly preposterous. A cynical piece. We've been duped by the third-rate.

Agreed. Miraculous how Budd knew exactly which terminals to apply the wire clips to.

Also would have enjoyed it more if they hadn't mumbled their lines most of the time.

And did we ever discover what the secret squirrel talks were between the 'new' Home Secretary and the Secret Service bod ?

[DracoM]

Of course there's going to be a second series, maybe even a third.
I am deeply disappointed.

Shall we start a list of those things in Series 1 we want explained in Series 2, 3, 4 and.........Yawn.....well, you get the drift.

I resent being so roundly conned.

[Richard Tarleton]

Agree with all the above. The organised crime theme wasn't even hinted at until Episode 5, was it? Apart from Chanel's mysterious lift in Episode 1, not that we were given any reason to suppose it was even an element in the plot.

A scene that was fudged was the arrest (which we didn't see) of Craddock and the organised crime bloke. When the armed response unit turned up, who were they more likely to believe? They'd most likely have shot the bloodstained, gun-toting Budd on her say-so. But, next thing we knew she was in an interview room. Perhaps she'd decided the game was up?

A great bit of acting by Anjili Mohindra playing Nadia - the moment where her mask slipped to reveal pure evil was excellently done.

[DracoM]

And BBC Radio pulled every rug from under it all by airing a quiet interview with a REAL HM Govt etc bodyguard, who casually pointed out that while the series had pretty well every second or third actor on-screen in the series as BME, in reality in this area of the Security Services, the real-life bodyguard pointed out there are almost no BMEs at all.

And so the box-ticking goes on..................

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Was I the only person watching who expected Budd's car to explode in the final frame?

It did seem likely, but almost too predicable.

I thought it was a great series.

[Dave2002]

I've not seen any of this. Should I bother, now?

[Barbirollians]

Was I the only person watching who expected Budd's car to explode in the final frame?

No !

There was always going to be a second series if there was demand for it look how long Line of Duty has been going on and he did not hesitate to kill off Keeley Hawes in that either.

Jed Mercurio writes exciting stuff but his endings always tend to be the weakest bit think back even to his brilliantly innovative Cardiac Arrest in the early 1990s .