Big plug for this `cos it looks interesting. :)
I think there are 6 parts. :unsure:
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The Last Enemy
Sunday 17 February
9:00pm - 10:25pm
BBC1
Thriller. Reclusive mathematician Stephen Ezard returns to England to attend the funeral of his brother Michael, an aid worker killed by a landmine in Afghanistan. He finds a world that has changed subtly but significantly from the one he left and feels like an outsider. Bewildered and ill at ease, Stephen is pulled into a spiral of strange events. Can he take control of his life again and learn more about how Michael met his death?
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Subtitled, Widescreen, Audio-described
Cast
Benedict Cumberbatch,Anamaria Marinca,Max Beesley,Robert Carlyle,David Harewood,Eva Birthistle
Directed by: Iain B MacDonald |
Spoilers for ep.1 ..... :)
I thought this took a while to get going ; it seemed to me that it took an hour to set things up before it really got going. It`s one of those shows where they have a bunch of excellent actors and you decide to keep watching because of them. :)
I`m intrigued enough to keep watching , though it`s difficult not to compare these sorts of shows with the excellent Edge of Darkness.
The brother really being alive added an interesting twist; I`m guessing that it was Geraldine James` character who tried to bump him off originally ? :unsure:
Not sure about Benedict Cumberbatch being an action hero type, and I note that his bare botty made an appearance - all those BBC costume shortages. :no:
I agree it took a while to get going but apart from the brother and widow jumping into bed with each other after knowing each other about 5 minutes :rolleyes: I quite enjoyed it and I actually thought it made a nice change to have a rather nerdy guy as the hero rather than some all action type.
Ep 2........
Oooh, now it looks like Robert Carlyle - who actually had some lines in this ep :o - might not be the baddie afterall. :unsure:
It seems to have picked up the pace a bit. Or maybe all the setting up of the series is out of the way. :lol: