Mostly about Bodyguard
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shallownessBodyguard ep 2
Oh, hello there twists. There were plenty of you, and moments that made me jump up in my sofa.
Budd’s relationship to Montague got even more complicated, as did the story, with new characters being introduced: the reasonable (if scruffily dressed?) junior minister, the oily secret services guy and Gina McKee’s head of counter terrorism and Budd’s boss – another female authority figure. With Montague pushing for more powers to snoop with less accountability, the security services and police’s turf war had even more importance and may have affected an operation. Because there was a (very gripping) terrorist attack on a school. Not just any school, but the one where David’s kids ‘happened’ to go, but everyone was too busy blaming each other for anyone to work out how the terrorists knew that.
David’s already stressed family (with dad passing on his terrible coping mechanisms to a little boy who was having serious problems at school) got put into a safe house and he got taken off his job of protecting the Home Sec. But she didn’t like that, pulled strings for his son to get into a special school and got him back into a job where he wasn’t letting his anger-management issues show. David’s scarred friend tried radicalising him into punishing Montague for making the decisions that endangered his kids.
Anyway, good job for her he was on the job because – as if we hadn’t had enough high drama – a sniper tried to kill her. It truly was a bad day to be wearing a white suit. I wonder if stains is going to be a recurring them.
Sorry, it was an extremely effective scene. There was a bit of a delay from control, so David decided to Do What Had To Be Done – he is generally barely coping with his PTSD, but in the moment, he’s good at what he does - instead of being pinned down. He located the sniper, got his principal safe and went after him.
One of those sitting-up-straight moments was when it was revealed it was his scarred friend. As of yet, unidentified by the authorities, but at some point they’ll at least figure out he was in Afghanistan with Budd, no?
A freaked out Montague, holed up in a hotel, asked to see David – she’d been splattered by her dead driver’s blood, the car had been shot at repeatedly and loudly so she was fairly traumatised. A hug turned into far more – and you’ve got to think that the woman had eyes and a libido so probably fancied her bodyguard from the outset, as well as wanted him to be onside, and so did favours for him as is suggested is the way of things with politicians. Now, having been in the room when David wasn’t, we know that she was complicit in not acting on information that his kids’ school was at risk. (And I get that that was a reasonable operational call, if inhumane.) He’s only got doubts.
Bad idea!sex was had, including the confusing appearance of a bathrobe. It occurred to me that the other police guarding the Home Sec had to suspect something given the amount of time he spent in her room.
Now it was David’s bosses who wanted him to spy on the Home Sec and the security services. So, they arranged for him to have an adjoining room in the hotel, with a connecting door. She had to be the one to open it, and she did. Cue more bad idea!sex.
So, they’re locked into a very complicated relationship (the power dynamics are twisted fun), with a heavy dose of paranoia. He’s made his personal gun less accessible, but questions about Montague remain and have deepened. Clearly she probably wants to be PM, and there are reasonable doubts about the wisdom of that. But you shouldn’t be hoping an assassin stops her in her tracks…
The soundtrack/sound design was excellent at helping ramp up the tension.
I’ve just realised that Sophie Rundle, who plays Vicky, played Lucy in the Bletchley Circle. If she passed on The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco to be in this, good call. I’m not sure if she did, but of all the characters who didn’t cross over the Atlantic, I suppose Lucy would have been the one most likely to.
Oh, hello there twists. There were plenty of you, and moments that made me jump up in my sofa.
Budd’s relationship to Montague got even more complicated, as did the story, with new characters being introduced: the reasonable (if scruffily dressed?) junior minister, the oily secret services guy and Gina McKee’s head of counter terrorism and Budd’s boss – another female authority figure. With Montague pushing for more powers to snoop with less accountability, the security services and police’s turf war had even more importance and may have affected an operation. Because there was a (very gripping) terrorist attack on a school. Not just any school, but the one where David’s kids ‘happened’ to go, but everyone was too busy blaming each other for anyone to work out how the terrorists knew that.
David’s already stressed family (with dad passing on his terrible coping mechanisms to a little boy who was having serious problems at school) got put into a safe house and he got taken off his job of protecting the Home Sec. But she didn’t like that, pulled strings for his son to get into a special school and got him back into a job where he wasn’t letting his anger-management issues show. David’s scarred friend tried radicalising him into punishing Montague for making the decisions that endangered his kids.
Anyway, good job for her he was on the job because – as if we hadn’t had enough high drama – a sniper tried to kill her. It truly was a bad day to be wearing a white suit. I wonder if stains is going to be a recurring them.
Sorry, it was an extremely effective scene. There was a bit of a delay from control, so David decided to Do What Had To Be Done – he is generally barely coping with his PTSD, but in the moment, he’s good at what he does - instead of being pinned down. He located the sniper, got his principal safe and went after him.
One of those sitting-up-straight moments was when it was revealed it was his scarred friend. As of yet, unidentified by the authorities, but at some point they’ll at least figure out he was in Afghanistan with Budd, no?
A freaked out Montague, holed up in a hotel, asked to see David – she’d been splattered by her dead driver’s blood, the car had been shot at repeatedly and loudly so she was fairly traumatised. A hug turned into far more – and you’ve got to think that the woman had eyes and a libido so probably fancied her bodyguard from the outset, as well as wanted him to be onside, and so did favours for him as is suggested is the way of things with politicians. Now, having been in the room when David wasn’t, we know that she was complicit in not acting on information that his kids’ school was at risk. (And I get that that was a reasonable operational call, if inhumane.) He’s only got doubts.
Bad idea!sex was had, including the confusing appearance of a bathrobe. It occurred to me that the other police guarding the Home Sec had to suspect something given the amount of time he spent in her room.
Now it was David’s bosses who wanted him to spy on the Home Sec and the security services. So, they arranged for him to have an adjoining room in the hotel, with a connecting door. She had to be the one to open it, and she did. Cue more bad idea!sex.
So, they’re locked into a very complicated relationship (the power dynamics are twisted fun), with a heavy dose of paranoia. He’s made his personal gun less accessible, but questions about Montague remain and have deepened. Clearly she probably wants to be PM, and there are reasonable doubts about the wisdom of that. But you shouldn’t be hoping an assassin stops her in her tracks…
The soundtrack/sound design was excellent at helping ramp up the tension.
I’ve just realised that Sophie Rundle, who plays Vicky, played Lucy in the Bletchley Circle. If she passed on The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco to be in this, good call. I’m not sure if she did, but of all the characters who didn’t cross over the Atlantic, I suppose Lucy would have been the one most likely to.
