Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Spooks is back.
Last night on television I watched the first episode of series 7 of the BBC television drama called Spooks . The episode saw central character Adam Carter (portrayed by Rupert Penry Jones) die in a car explosion. It also saw the return of Ros Myers (played by Hermione Norris) and Jo Portman (Miranda Raison) as both of their fates were uncertain at the end of series 6. Richard Armitage joined the cast as Lucas North, an agent who has been held in a Russian prison for the past eight years.
I think that Spooks is the best drama being shown on British television today. It is entertaining, gritty and realistic. It is fast paced and really makes the viewer think about how close this drama is to real life. The plot of last night's episode was a terrorist attack in London on Remembrance Sunday . In the United Kingdom, Remembrance Sunday is the second Sunday of November, the Sunday nearest to 11 November (Remembrance Day), which is the anniversary of the end of the hostilities of the First World War at 11 a.m. in 1918.
This episode of Spooks was spot on in it's research and you realize just how impossible it is for MI5 to stop terrorists before they strike. It really makes me wonder because Remembrance Sunday this year falls on the 9th November, which using the British date format records itself as 9/11 - a date already etched in our minds.
Last night on television I watched the first episode of series 7 of the BBC television drama called Spooks . The episode saw central character Adam Carter (portrayed by Rupert Penry Jones) die in a car explosion. It also saw the return of Ros Myers (played by Hermione Norris) and Jo Portman (Miranda Raison) as both of their fates were uncertain at the end of series 6. Richard Armitage joined the cast as Lucas North, an agent who has been held in a Russian prison for the past eight years.
I think that Spooks is the best drama being shown on British television today. It is entertaining, gritty and realistic. It is fast paced and really makes the viewer think about how close this drama is to real life. The plot of last night's episode was a terrorist attack in London on Remembrance Sunday . In the United Kingdom, Remembrance Sunday is the second Sunday of November, the Sunday nearest to 11 November (Remembrance Day), which is the anniversary of the end of the hostilities of the First World War at 11 a.m. in 1918.
This episode of Spooks was spot on in it's research and you realize just how impossible it is for MI5 to stop terrorists before they strike. It really makes me wonder because Remembrance Sunday this year falls on the 9th November, which using the British date format records itself as 9/11 - a date already etched in our minds.
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I particularly enjoyed the references to Britain's relations with Russia and in Episode 3, screened this evening on BBC3, comments on the downturn of the economy and the way in which this affected politicians' political will was also very current - something the show's producers will have been very happy about, having filmed much of this series in June (when my ISA was worth considerably more than it is today)!
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