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The first three episodes were sort of interesting, they kept my attention, and they looked like a well conducted mystery piece....The mysterious MI6 agent, was found dead and his clueless lover, Danny, coming from a complete social margin, but a full of ideals and stubborn like hell, shocked to learn from the police about the real identity of his lover, is determined to find out who killed him and why. In the atmosphere of paranoia and fear, his only friend is the old, queer former MI6 agent, who is terribly unconvincing and suspicious himself, but still, as it will show, the only valuable helper he could turn to. In the first three episodes, the plot is developing and it seems that story is going towards exciting and interesting ending. However, in 4th episode the show is running out of ideas, and we see stereorotypical development in which of course, it turns out that the young dead agent " had invented" some old fashion science fiction-like weapon, so in the end everything looks like we watch James Bond 1969 version, with much lower budget for side effects. Especially the 5th episode is literally non-sensical. All of a sudden unmotivated scenes show up, a bunch of conversation that nobody would believe that ever might have happened, some unfriendly characters all of a sudden are becoming cooperative etc etc and especially, whats really unconvincing, is the way how the main character all of a sudden in a flip of second gains the trust of his dead lover's mother, although like a second before that she looked at him with a despise and even hatred. Not to mention the question why MI6 would kill a genius scientist who works for them and who is there valuable asset, just because he invented something that should be a secret. Wasn't it exactly his job? Don't they have more efficient ways to keep their men silent, instead of killing them in sadistic ways, and then bothering with the whole net of lies, false explanations, producing new undesirable witnesses, and so on.
What is really weak in the show is a whole assumption that influential professors from Cambridge, upper class rich and influential men and women working for MI6 and other powerful people like that, would ever even pay attention to the story of Danny, a young "nobody", a promiscuous little poor clubber, and ex-drug user, who happened to get involved into the intrigue simply by having sex with one of them, not even knowing who he was at all. Knowing class system in England, I did not believe this setting even for a sec, and towards the end of the show, it was becoming more and more ridiculous. Good idea, but broke down in the end.
score 4/10
gphgrm01 17 October 2019
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