Bodyguard
10/10
This
show should have been called Ha! You're Wrong A Lot! This is going to
be full of spoilers! Jesus, I had to take a deep breath after
watching Bodyguard on Netflix. This is a six part BBC series which I
love. If a show now has more than 12 episodes in a season chances are
I'm not gonna give it a try because these shows that have less are
keeping it nice and tight with stories and such when there are so few
episodes to work with. This stars Richard Madden who I did not even
recognize from Game Of Thrones as Police Sergeant David Budd. He is a
British war vet and is suffering from all kinds of PTSD related
issues. There is also Keeley Hawes as The Right Honorable Julia
Montague, the Home Secretary, Conservative MP for Thames West which
is a long ass title that can easily be shortened.
Right
from the start this show had me clenching my cheeks. Cam watched this
show and loved it so much she watched it all over again which I'll
give a try. Budd is on a train heading home with his son and
daughter. He spots this guy looking all kinds of suspicious and spots
him leaving a bathroom. Just as he leaves Budd enters and finds a
woman with a goddamn bomb strapped to her chest. He gets the security
on the train to stop it and get the passengers cleared an every time
the security fumbled or acted nervous I was shouting at my TV “Get
your shit together!” He speaks to the lady bomber named Nadia and
calms her down and keeps the SWAT or whatever they call it in Britain
from shooting her. They are dying to blow this woman's head off. The
lady and her dude are both arrested and Budd heads home to his wife.
That he is separated from. You'll find out why shortly. Budd ends up
getting promoted and is assigned to protect Julia. She stands for
everything he is against and his veteran friend that had his face
partially melted off reminds him of this. Julia pretty much wants to
continue supporting the war even though folks are continuing to die
and there is no end in sight and just money being made by the people
who do not have to fight.
Budd's
wife and even people at work are like “You almost got blown up.
Therapist maybe?” and he is like “Nah, I'm good.” Budd is not
good. Soon a large truck full of explosives is heading to his kids
school. Police try to intercept it and end up shooting the guys
inside. They get close, one of them smiles, and then the shit
explodes. Budd's family ends up being placed in a safe house because
it is weird that they knew what school his kids went to. Also, while
riding with Julia the car gets lit up by a sniper. The shit is super
intense. Budd manages to track down the shooter and when they showed
who it was I knew that this show was not gonna be close to how I
thought it would be. That was the craziest thing about this series. I
was wrong constantly. Like...all the way wrong. The people I thought
were bad were good and the ones I thought were good turned out to be
evil as fuck.
There
is no one that is safe. You think the police are dirty and it turns
out that they are not even close to dirty and then I thought this
team was dirty and it turns out they are just being used by someone
that is stanky ass dirty and then there is someone who is full of all
of the shit that is controlling them! Oh, an it turns out that Julia
knew that there could possibly be an attack on Budd's kids school.
Oh, and Budd and Julia start fuggin'! I know, right?! I knew that
this could not be good or end well for either one of these people but
what ended up happening wasn't even on my radar.
I
don't wanna spoil much more to this show because it does not have a
lot of episodes and you could easily watch this in one or two nights.
The acting on this was good. I loved the way the camera would lose
focus on everything but the center of the screen. The music was
perfect in tone and would help build up the tension but not be
distracting. I do not watch many shows involving detectives or police
or law because there have been too many times where I could not solve
something because they never gave you a chance to suspect someone or
go “Oh, okay. I got this.” This show was amazing at leading me in
one direction but the whole time in hindsight I should've been
looking somewhere else. Great writing. Great directing. I looked and
saw there was one writer and two directors so things never felt weird
and people did not act out of character. Watch this show.
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