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 The opening 17 minutes of the show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz7P7t4yEfA  Now on netflix in most regions worldwide! IMDB | Wikipedia Synopsis posted:Set in and around the corridors of power, Bodyguard tells the fictional story of Police Sergeant David Budd ( Cast  Richard Madden as Sergeant David Budd, an Afghanistan war veteran and Metropolitan Police Service Protection Command bodyguard. He is married to, but separated from, Vicky, with two children.  Keeley Hawes as The Right Honourable Julia Montague, the Home Secretary and Conservative MP for Thames West. Protection codename Lavender. MI5 is accountable to the Home Secretary.  Nina Toussaint-White as Detective Sergeant Louise Rayburn, a Counter Terrorism officer with SO15 investigating the bomb-threats around London. Glossary PPO - Police Protection Command provide protection to the Royal Family, government officials and diplomats. ARV - Armed Response Vehicle. Crewed by Authorised Firearms Officers to respond to incidents believed to involve firearms or other high-risk situations. SCO19 - Force Firearms Unit is a domestic counter-terrorism and law enforcement unit responsible for providing a firearms-response capability, assisting the rest of the police service which is not routinely armed. SO15 - Counter Terrorism Command is a Specialist Operations branch within London's Metropolitan Police Service. MI5 - Military Intelligence, Section 5 or Security Service is the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its intelligence. MI6 - Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6, is the foreign intelligence service of the United Kingdom. COBR - Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms (often mistakenly referred to as COBRA) at 70 Whitehall, often used for different committees which co-ordinate the actions of bodies within the Government in response to instances of national or regional crisis. RIPA - Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 is an Act of the Parliament of the UK, regulating the powers of public bodies to carry out surveillance and investigation, and covering the interception of communications. Videos Bodyguard trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZj4M_Qz-mI Episode 1: 17 minute preview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz7P7t4yEfA Episode 2: major spoiler sniper - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HncTXJLGumU --- Four of the six episodes have already aired with the series to end on September 23rd. I've caught up and it is a pretty decent show which packs a lot into its hour long runtime. The show had the highest launch figure of any drama debut in the last decade in the UK with 10.4 million viewers. drunkill fucked around with this message at 03:09 on Oct 25, 2018 |
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I'm on Episode 2 and I'm loving this show so far. The opening scene was incredible and I'm liking all the political thriller melodrama. Richard Madden plays the role pretty well and I hope we get to see more of him shooting people across London. Also why does everyone call everyone else mum
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Sep 13, 2018 00:52
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I've only seen one episode but i suspect this show slaps.
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Sep 13, 2018 03:43
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Yeah I binged the first four episodes and I’m loving it. Really takes some fuckin’ turns.
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Sep 13, 2018 03:50
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I just plowed through the first 4 episodes in the last 2 days, it's pretty good and like the OP said they pack a lot into an episode.
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Sep 13, 2018 21:32
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My fav british show this year, the main guy is so good.
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Sep 14, 2018 07:26
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Really enjoying it, my only irk so far has been the failure of the police / security forces in dentifying the shooter on the roof, I feel in real life they'd identify him in no time.
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Sep 15, 2018 17:32
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Presumably this is Richard Madden's tryout for replacing Daniel Craig. 
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Sep 15, 2018 17:56
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Wheat Loaf posted:Presumably this is Richard Madden's tryout for replacing Daniel Craig. He's stares like a Scottsman. I wouldn't gently caress with him.
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Sep 15, 2018 18:12
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Rocksicles posted:He's stares like a Scottsman. I wouldn't gently caress with him. He is Scottish! (Unless that's  )
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Sep 15, 2018 20:15
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Wheat Loaf posted:He is Scottish! There are levels of Scottsman. He looks through his eyebrows like he's found the sassanach that stole his castle.
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Sep 16, 2018 07:21
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Based on the recommendation of the thread, I started watching this show. It's terrific. Just finished episode 2. Holy poo poo, that initial sniper shot on the car made me jump.
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Sep 17, 2018 04:02
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kompromat Has kompromat always been a thing in the UK because they are all using it very casually. I only learned about it with the Donald Trump piss thing last year. Mu Zeta fucked around with this message at 12:55 on Sep 18, 2018 |
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Sep 18, 2018 10:04
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God drat, the first two episodes of this have been intense and unexpected. Can't wait to see the rest of it.
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Sep 18, 2018 12:23
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In a totally shocking twist it was the security services behind the terror attacks all along, how original
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Sep 18, 2018 12:30
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Netflix has announced global(?) streaming rights: https://twitter.com/seewhatsnext/status/1042065715677683712
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Sep 18, 2018 18:21
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Episode 5 was really killer and I loved what it ended on. For a show that’s a lot of walking and talking, I’m super into the plot.
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Sep 19, 2018 02:41
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Cool show. I liked the ending. "Hi, I am David and I need some help......."
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Sep 23, 2018 22:28
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Taintrunner posted:I'm on Episode 2 and I'm loving this show so far. The opening scene was incredible and I'm liking all the political thriller melodrama. Richard Madden plays the role pretty well and I hope we get to see more of him shooting people across London. why does everyone call everyone else mum They’re saying “Ma’am”, but it sounds like “mum” because of their backwoods accents.
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Sep 24, 2018 07:13
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This show was solid as hell.
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Sep 24, 2018 07:35
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Very watchable series but I had to suspend my disbelief quite a few times, especially the finale.
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Sep 24, 2018 09:24
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Yeah a few little bumps in the finale but solid show. I'm looking forward to seeing which US Network picks it up for the inevitable terrible reimagining. I have started to watch Line of Duty which had been on my radar but I'd never given any time to before, it's also pretty fantastic. Only halfway through series 2 but I have to say Keeley Hawes is really impressive in both shows.
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Sep 24, 2018 12:07
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I don't really get why either women confessed. The muslim girl had a stupid evil mastermind speech too.
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Sep 24, 2018 23:10
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The finale was a bit of a wet fart but I really enjoyed the season as a whole. Someone recommended Line of Duty as being in same genre as this show. Anyone seen it?
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Sep 25, 2018 02:37
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Hughmoris posted:The finale was a bit of a wet fart but I really enjoyed the season as a whole. Just started watching it since I enjoyed Bodyguard so much. I managed to smash through the first 2 seasons in a couple of nights. Speaking of Season 2, Final Ep Spoilers Wow the last 5 minutes of the season finale really took the wind out of my sails in a big way, although there were so many red flags about Lindsay I'd sympathised with the prison treatment and investigation into her, I felt liked I'd been played. Awesome show, probably the biggest compliment I can give it is I don't feel like reaching for my phone like many other shows as each detail can be so important.
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Sep 25, 2018 03:09
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Yeah I could see some complaints with the finale but I really did genuinely like it. More than anything I really appreciated the whole shellshocked vet finally owns up to getting mental health care and even then has a happy ending with his family which was a really nice touch. That bomb defusal had me at the edge of my seat and unable to look away. You could pick apart the specifics of the plot if you really wanted to, sure, but I think the overall emotional arc was really well done and satisfying. Great character I'd love to see again.
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Sep 25, 2018 20:29
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Show shot itself in the foot by having the original bomb girl confess to being a jihadi mastermind that helped orchestrate everything and wants to destroy the west. pure islamaphobic tripe out of an otherwise good show that looked like it was touching on an oft ignored bit of the middle east adventuring (ptsd soldiers coming back and hating the ones that sent them there)
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Sep 25, 2018 20:43
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Yeah the last 10-15mins of the finale were flat. The rest was good though, I expect netflix to throw some money at the creator soon enough.
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Sep 26, 2018 10:46
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Also check out Jed Mercurio's medical drama Cardiac Arrest from the 1990s, which drew on his time in medical practice when he was an NHS doctor.
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Sep 26, 2018 11:40
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In case you're vaugely interested in the look of the show (which is not what the show is about, so why would you), I've done a bunch of interviews on it in the last couple of days: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/bodyguard-finale-set-design https://lectureinprogress.com/journal/bbc-bodyguard I'm really glad the show is doing so well because it was *real* loving hard to make.
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Sep 26, 2018 12:47
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I always enjoyed your insider talk in the Doctor Who threads, Echoplex, glad you're still doing good work. Would you be at any liberty to share what was written in the kompromat files on the tablet? We only saw glimpses of a few words in the show and I was wondering if it was fully scripted out or if it was just lorem ipsum stuff.
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Sep 26, 2018 12:57
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echoplex posted:In case you're vaugely interested in the look of the show (which is not what the show is about, so why would you), I've done a bunch of interviews on it in the last couple of days: You're a set designer? I'll give you props. I think it was an outstanding show.
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Sep 26, 2018 13:00
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echoplex posted:In case you're vaugely interested in the look of the show (which is not what the show is about, so why would you), I've done a bunch of interviews on it in the last couple of days: I think that the look of the show was very probably the best part of it. Well, next to the acting of some of the cast and the overall cinematography.
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Sep 26, 2018 20:24
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Insane work, this is def NOT one of the shows where you're looking at someone using "Doodle.com" to look up something and it just looks like a mess.
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Sep 27, 2018 00:54
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I was very happy with google searches and wikipedia when I saw it.
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Sep 27, 2018 02:20
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drunkill posted:I was very happy with google searches and wikipedia when I saw it. It really helps with the immersion, like seeing a smart phone light up/off as it's taken to the person's ear. It might not seem like much but when you notice it, it's a good touch.
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Blimey, thanks guys. The whole art dept bled for this one, so, yunno.Jerkface posted:Insane work, this is def NOT one of the shows where you're looking at someone using "Doodle.com" to look up something and it just looks like a mess. We actually had product placement to use Bing on this one, which is still fairly uncommon as the character using it tends to have to be beyond reproach, but our director for the first couple of eps was really anti using Bing because "no-one uses it". This gave us about a month to get the use cleared with Google, and our clearance co-ordinator had a lot of 2am email chains refining the sequence to get it approved. I'm genuinely amazed we got it. We didn't get everything, I did a fake wiki that was close to the line, but it worked for the quick cutaways. Matinee posted:I always enjoyed your insider talk in the Doctor Who threads, Echoplex, glad you're still doing good work. There was like... zero lorem ipsum anywhere in the show. Everything, the powerpoints, the NAIBS reports, scene of crime books, evidence folders etc were all filled in authentically. We had a couple of Police advisors who would explain to us the rough contents of what each bit of paperwork would involve, and then the script editors would write out a large chunk of the text, leaving us to fill other bits in. Continuity editors also broke down the time of day / date of all the scenes and flashbacks so we had accurate info like that (also useful for the CCTV shots). So yeah, the Kompromat was real! Not sure I can really post it in any detail in case somehow it would relate to a second series. There's a crazy amount of 'close ups of pieces of paper' in this show - more than any I've ever done - so I didn't want to get caught with my pants down (see: 123 Fake Street that my assistant put in, that got a close up in DW) Rocksicles posted:You're a set designer? Just graphic design for the sets these days. Set design / production design is too much stress and not enough freedom in TV.
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Sep 28, 2018 15:29
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When you do an awesome job no one notices. The moment you get something only 98% right, it sticks out worse than a badly fitted wig. I think there was only 1 moment in the entire series where your stuff didn't convince me utterly and that's probably better than anything else I have seen (even The Wire because they used a WinXP search dialogue for an FBI database). Yes I am saying you did a better job than The Wire. The technical advisor to the script should have been shot tho.
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Sep 28, 2018 23:13
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Ha, thank you! Is just brown and water. What bit did I gently caress up? (there were lots, so if you only noticed one, I'm happy)
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drunkill posted:I was very happy with google searches and wikipedia when I saw it. When the google search came up, I was paying extra-special attention because those are usually hosed up. In this case, I thought 'Blimey, that's a real search. How did they do that? They must have created that fake gov domain and then seeded results in order to get Google to display that result' genuinely convinced even cynical me.
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