Spooks annoys me, not least because in recent series the plots and villains have regularly shown less credibility than those of James Bond films. Furthermore, the circumstances and characters always seem to be being manipulated by the scriptwriters to wring every last possible drop of melodrama out which might not be bad once in a while but I find rather wearing week after week after week.
I appreciate that many viewers find this style of drama pithy and refreshing, but the way that Spooks lurches from one in-show disaster and character death to the next in-show disaster and character mental breakdown is something I find a complete turnoff.
The first couple of seasons showed promise, and I watched every episode, but these days I can miss them with only a mild sense of curiousity as to what disaster crippled or eliminated yet another member of the team this week?
Well, by the crazy internal logic of the Spooks world, at least the end of the most recent season was more credible than the start.
Although along the way there were further off-screen 'deaths' where the writers have left themselves space to bizarrely write back in characters in future series whom you thought were dead in this one.
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Charles Evans 25 wrote:
Well, by the crazy internal logic of the Spooks world, at least the end of the most recent season was more credible than the start.
Although along the way there were further off-screen 'deaths' where the writers have left themselves space to bizarrely write back in characters in future series whom you thought were dead in this one.
I love this show to a fault, but I tend to agree with you. I think, by itself, series 8 stood well on its own. Stacked against previous years, not so well; stacked against last year, a bang-up job.
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