Oh dear. Another load of nonsense. PM Suranne Jones' husband is kidnapped. If she steps down as PM, he and three other doctors, will be released. So what do you do? 'Unfortunately, due to personal problems, I'm going to have to step down.' Catch the kidnappers, then reinstate self with alive husband. At least that's what everyone around the world watching would have done. But daft PM goes another way and deaths begin.
And that's the main problem with it throughout. (French President Julie Delpy is blackmailed with a sex tape. So what? In France, that would probably increase her popularity.) I sense that the fun everyone has with it is shouting at the screen things like 'No!' and 'Don't be so stupid!' The whole premise, that it's a protest against reducing the armed forces, is patently absurd. That could have been a serious basis for a thriller, but this is absurd beyond belief. Twaddle is the word. Entertaining twaddle.
Lucien Msamati, Corey Mylchreest (Delpy's stepson, My Oxford Year), Ashley Thomas (PM's husband), Martin McCann (from Blue Lights), Jehnny Beth (French traitor), James Cosmo, Mark Lewis Jones and Isobel Akuwudike as the daughter.
A five part Netflix series.
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