Quickie Review: COBRA

[Kevin M.]

Remember the cheesy melodramatic made-for-tv disaster movies/miniseries they used to broadcast on ABC, CBS, and NBC in the ‘80s? Turns out they still make them in the UK. The overacting is strong with this one.--

Kevin M. (RPCV)

[Karen Owen]

I thought it looked like the UK version of 24.  I looked to see if

is coming back and saw that it is with the same actor and actress

as the Prime Minister and his chief flunky.



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[Kevin M.]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 2:20 PM Karen Owen <ko...@frontiernet.net> wrote:

I thought it looked like the UK version of 24.  I looked to see if

is coming back and saw that it is with the same actor and actress

as the Prime Minister and his chief flunky.

It was promoted as a “realistic” portrayal of how the UK government would react during a major global disaster. Unfortunately, we’ve seen how it would react (or fail to react) in real life, so the dramatized version feels very, very cheesy. Add to that some very politically correct plot contrivances (like fixing a public image problem by hiring a woman) or finding some Nazis to be the bad guys, and... ugh. 

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[Dave Sikula]

Gee, maybe they could do what Sorkin did on "The Newsroom;" take events from a couple of years ago and hector them about how they should have handled them if they were only as smart as he. Shoehorn in some Gilbert and Sullivan, and it would be indistinguishable.

--Dave Sikula

[Adam Bowie]

I've just realised that this has pitched up in the US on PBS which surprises me enormously. I assumed it would be somewhere on Peacock (it's a Sky One show in the UK, so shares a Comcast owner). It wasn't massively well received over here. But I didn't watch it. That said, it's been recommissioned for a second series.

(If you want something decent, may I recommend the Small Axe films that I think start dropping on Amazon Prime this week. They're five films from director Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave), and the first film aired on the BBC on Sunday and was astonishingly good.)

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