Last Sunday night had the savage twists we expected from creator Jed Mercurio.
At the end, when young Muslim woman Nadia is arrested, hero DC David Budd watches her interrogation on a screen in a nearby room, and we get the most chilling moment of this electrifying series.
The defiant Nadia is asked who made the bomb and we can see her deciding whether to tell the truth.
Her eventual reply is a shocker, “I am an engineer, I am a jihadi.”
Budd was Home Secretary’s Julia Montague’s PPO when she was assassinated and he has been traumatised more than once and he finally agrees to go to Occupational Health and then returns to his estranged wife Vicky to take the kids for a day out. But Vicky ends up going along too, opening up the possibility of a reconciliation in Series 2.
That sequence (rehab-to-family) is nicely done but it’s wrapped up far too quickly and slickly. Two minutes in a 75-minute final episode? Come on!
I love deep state/counter-terrorism stuff and particularly enjoy dramas set in my home city, like The Sweeney, Spooks and Sherlock, where London is almost a character in the story.
Bodyguard was easily my favourite series of 2018.
First episode did six million viewers, the second did seven, and 11 million saw the finale. Big numbers.
Now there’s a hole in our weekend viewing.
Nothing more to say, really. We loved it. Right up there with Mad Men, Spiral and The Night Manager.