Bodyguard - BBC One [** Spoilers **]

Merged.

its august alright. but no date yet:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180730-nine-tv-shows-to-watch-in-august

I enjoyed, it's only 6 episodes so I'll probably stick with it (then again I said the same with Gunpowder).
The coffee scene was a bit jarring though, I didn't understand the giggling, I have to say.

That opening 20 minutes was tense as sh1t and really good.

Then the last 35 minutes were fairly flat and routine.

There was enough there to bring me back for episode 2.

Lizsalander wrote: »

Not sure about that sex scene

A distinct lack of minorities in this show, the 2 token blacks/asians were directly involved in the shootout to make it look balanced.

Well they're all over the place after the explosion anyway!!


Got a bit silly post sniper. Yer man stayed on the roof far too long, casually tried to walk down to the lifts then?

But great up until then and afterwards.

Marje wrote: »

Nothing will be straight forward as it seems in regard to a Jed Mercurio story

There's a bigger game being played in the background.

We are led to believe that Montague is power hungry and wants the PM's job - the assistant (Chanel?) an ex-husband have both said this. Her ex-husband's role as Chief Whip is to keep her in line with the party and that includes protecting the PM.

I think the assistant who spilled the coffee was Montague's ex-husband's bit on the side. Their relationship would have been his way of keeping tabs on Montague. My reasons for thinking this was her reaction to the coffee spill - it seemed the kind of stereotypical immature reaction of the younger mistress towards something bad happening to her lover's ex. She was also collected in a Range Rover after she was escorted from the office and I think the ex-husband arrived to the scene where he abused Budd in the same vehicle.

The beneficiary of the terror alert is the Security Service (MI-5) - Montague intends to give them sweeping surveillance powers. A host of domestic terror incidents helps smooth over any potential PR problems and her record on Iraq/Afghanistan policies makes her a perfect political candidate to be the stooge of the Security Service.

So the other twist in the story is likely to be that the Security Service are running the terrorist cell and the head of the Security Service is playing Montague. He briefed her on the attack on the school before the counter-terrorism meeting which was some time before the event took place.

The police not being able to identify the shooter throws up a number of possibilities, each of which could involve the Security Service. It could be that the shooter was scrubbed from the system / the police don't have access to the database containing his details / the results of the search were altered.

Budd's PTSD friend could be an unwitting pawn of the Security Service - attributing the attack on Montague to a homegrown "Lone Wolf" will reinforce the need for increasing the surveillance powers of the Security Service. If his military background became public it would change the dynamic of the political discussion.

There are some interesting threads to the story and hopefully we'll get to see something of the police investigation because I think the story around the counter-terrorism players will get boring. The extra curricular activities of Montague and Budd is just a nonsense storyline and nothing new.

Talisman wrote: »

There's a bigger game being played in the background.

We are led to believe that Montague is power hungry and wants the PM's job - the assistant (Chanel?) an ex-husband have both said this. Her ex-husband's role as Chief Whip is to keep her in line with the party and that includes protecting the PM.

I think the assistant who spilled the coffee was Montague's ex-husband's bit on the side. Their relationship would have been his way of keeping tabs on Montague. My reasons for thinking this was her reaction to the coffee spill - it seemed the kind of stereotypical immature reaction of the younger mistress towards something bad happening to her lover's ex. She was also collected in a Range Rover after she was escorted from the office and I think the ex-husband arrived to the scene where he abused Budd in the same vehicle.

The beneficiary of the terror alert is the Security Service (MI-5) - Montague intends to give them sweeping surveillance powers. A host of domestic terror incidents helps smooth over any potential PR problems and her record on Iraq/Afghanistan policies makes her a perfect political candidate to be the stooge of the Security Service.

So the other twist in the story is likely to be that the Security Service are running the terrorist cell and the head of the Security Service is playing Montague. He briefed her on the attack on the school before the counter-terrorism meeting which was some time before the event took place.

The police not being able to identify the shooter throws up a number of possibilities, each of which could involve the Security Service. It could be that the shooter was scrubbed from the system / the police don't have access to the database containing his details / the results of the search were altered.

Budd's PTSD friend could be an unwitting pawn of the Security Service - attributing the attack on Montague to a homegrown "Lone Wolf" will reinforce the need for increasing the surveillance powers of the Security Service. If his military background became public it would change the dynamic of the political discussion.

There are some interesting threads to the story and hopefully we'll get to see something of the police investigation because I think the story around the counter-terrorism players will get boring. The extra curricular activities of Montague and Budd is just a nonsense storyline and nothing new.

That all sounds pretty spot on to me.

Some of them don't really count as twists thought tbh. Especially security service probably being linked to terrorist cell, that seemed to be sign posted.

gmisk wrote: »

Especially security service probably being linked to terrorist cell, that seemed to be sign posted.

I thought so too, but her ladyship watched it with a friend and neither of them picked up on it.

The Black Oil wrote: »

I presume it's so that no heat is brought to bear on the veteran's support group/dissenters.

I think it's related to him hiding his PTSD condition. Andy (the sniper) mentioned that if Budd had put PTSD on his CV he wouldn't have his job. Presumably the meetup is for PTSD sufferers who focus blame on the British government for the war and its consequences which include their condition even though Andy focused primarily on Muslim radicals in his speech.

We know she has information on the PM, the secret service knew she was going to use it, but they wanted to plan the timing.

Highly unlikely that Mahmood is the bomber.

Something made both PPO's run to the podium before the blast but I couldn't see what it was.

It's good fun.. it's not quite in the same calibre as LoD but that's a difficult benchmark.

Just waiting for the association to be made between the shooter and Budd.

Definite red-herring that Paul "Bleach In The Eyes" Ready is involved in the conspiracy.. he's a cracking actor - terrifying in Utopia and proper comedic chops in Motherland.

Basq wrote: »

Definite red-herring that Paul "Bleach In The Eyes" Ready is involved in the conspiracy.. he's a cracking actor - terrifying in Utopia and proper comedic chops in Motherland.

Yes of course,he is spooky
I had just got that scene from Utopia out of my mind. Thanks a lot:D