`Spooks' delivers....
I read all the hype in advance of this program being shown on ABC-TV in Australia, and thought: yeah, yeah, show me something different.Maybe it's not too different, but it does deliver.I was a bit bored inititally by the straight delivery of MI-5 characters, and how terribly seriously they take their jobs.Matthew MacFadyen is a fine choice for Tom Quinn - he's big and tall, straight-faced, and very, very serious.Keeley Hawes is also very well cast, and eminently believable.However the last two episodes shown here - the one about the mock terrorist attack, and last night's episode about the visit of the American presidential `circus' were rivetting stuff.I found myself holding my breath for a lot longer than was healthy for me!I was fascinated by how the US presidential entourage insisted they take over MI-5 files for `security purposes'.A metaphor for the world at the moment??The suspicion that George Bush Jnr was visiting London specifically for a secret meeting with Colonel Gadaffi to negotiate compensation for Locharbie losses was very pertinent, given that Libya came forth with compensation - in the `real' world - just this week.
I look forward to more episodes of this straighter-than-straight, larger-than-life, but very entertaining series.I don't think it's very realistic, but then, who watches TV to indulge in more reality?
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prose 15 August 2003
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