Bodyguard

I thought it was excellent.

As I said 'twas excellent but frankly, I'd watch any old crap with Keeley Hawes in it.

Just caught up with part 1 tonight. I thought this was well written though the first 20mins were fantastic. Hopefully the remaining episodes will be just as good. It’s stuff like this that makes the licence fee worth paying. Well done to the BBC!

Indeed, getting sexier with age. Thought this was a good opening episode.

I found it really annoying - the characterisation was so crude and cartoonish it was like something out of a French and Saunders sketch. They were clearly bending over backwards to give loads of action roles to women but it just came across as patronising and misogynistic - in that all the women in positions of power were horrible, crass, insensitive, gung-ho, bloodthirsty - gagging to shoot the terrorist like dogs after a rabbit - but luckily there's this wonderful, sensible level headed male there to save the situation. Here's the ex-wife, oh good, Sophie Rundle, I like her, oh, but three seconds on screen and she's a bitch too. The Home Sec character must have been an infant prodigy to have had a law career, been an MP young enough to have voted for Iraq and Afghanistan (I notice Libya wasn't mentioned - it never is), and risen to the top despite being appallingly obnoxious to everyone who crosses her path. Hopefully she'll turn out to be an olympic pole vaulter too.

The pop-cultural portrayal of all politicians as A-holes has, I think, put generations of decent people off entering Westminster. And now look where we are.

Also, train coming into Euston, presumably with Northerners on board, and everyone's silent (they're not even quiet in the Quiet Coach).  

I think, if the plot hinges around her role in sending him to war, they should either have cast older actors or set it 10 or more years ago. She'd have been 'the baby of the house' when those decisions were made.

Yes that bit was obvious. Still gripping and v well done.

Well I'm enjoying this even if it is a bit more schlocky and predictable than I'd hoped. It's nicely paced with good tension.

I wasn't really familiar with Richard Madden (not being a GOT fan) so did a bit of Googling and he played a major role in the 2009 National Theatre of Scotland's production of "Be Near Me", starring and adapted by Ian McDiarmid from the novel by Andrew O'Hagan which played at the Donmar and toured. The play wasn't great, unlike the book, but I enjoyed it given that Andy O'Hagan is from the same small Scottish town as me and the church and school in the novel were very thinly-disguised versions of those that I attended...

The pop-cultural portrayal of all politicians as A-holes has, I think, put generations of decent people off entering Westminster. And now look where we are.

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Oh, they do a pretty good job of making A-holes of themselves. Cultural portrayals of politicians only reflect the reality, except Churchill obviously, who can only be seen as a saint it seems.

Very confusing as The Bodyguard was on the same night on Ch5 leading to a text exchange with my friend
“Are you watching the Bodyguard later?”
“We’re watching it now, it’s good”
“You can’t be it’s not on till after big brother”
“Well it’s on here now” etc etc

I don't think it does - when Jo Cox was murdered everyone suddenly seemed surprised that here was a person in parliament who seemed to be pretty decent (even if her husband wasn't). The media - to its eternal shame - likes to focus on and give platforms to 'characters' rather than bread-and-butter politicians, so they are the ones whose careers thrive and who the public sees. When I lived in London I'd go to political meetings and some of those I met seemed to be OK human beings.