Phenomenal show with an ending that goes downhill real fast.
Here's why the climax sucked: (excuse me omitting the praise, you'll have to watch the mini series to find out -it's still worth watching though)
The finale was a bit of a microcosm of the whole series. Great set-up and execution of incredibly tense scenes and moments of action, great performance by Madden, sloppy almost everything else.
How many times in this show have previously normal characters suddenly turned into moustache twirling villains until the show directs the viewer's suspicions elsewhere and they just as suddenly go back to normal? They even did it with Budd at one point ffs
And all the investigators wildly oscillating between dismissive, blindly trusting, and aggressively sceptical.
The Nadia twist was the worst by far though. Maybe a better actress could have pulled it off but I doubt it. Hilariously awful writing in that scene. Felt like something from another show. And it retroactively ruins the opening sequence of the first episode, which was by far the best part of Bodyguard.
Just when I didn’t think the finale could get any worse the Nadia scene came up.
1) yes all you need is a name and you can find out where a kid lives and goes to school 2) I’m sure it’s easy to pass on this information to your terrorist buddies when you’re IN PRISON for TERRORISM.
3) what good is She in prison? If she really is the mastermind why would she want MORE jail time? The police have zero evidence against her seemingly and then she just provides a damning confession that all but guaranteed to ensure she is incarcerated for many more years, if not life. 4) oh and I’m not an expert but I’m pretty sure it would Be counter productive for the bomb maker to actually go on to become a suicide bomber if there are more cells out there.
Everything just magically falls into place - and rather awkwardly in the last episode. For a show, much of which hinges on much of its mystery (the romance is not integral to the story, ends abruptly halfway and the first sex scene is just awful) - the main character corners all the bad dudes convenienty about five minutes before credits roll - after diffusing a bomb strapped to himself. And the investigators become hilariously unprofessional at the end - onky to needlessly dramatize the last adrenaline injection. I had VERY high expectations for this show - set up by its own standards. Fails in that regard.