User Reviews

The show starts off with Adam, deputy to the head of MI-6, talking to a classroom of school kids. Meanwhile, his boss is in a restaurant and is then seen showing a man a file containing compromising information. He promises not to reveal any of the information and wants nothing in return, for now. Next, his drink is brought to him- it has been poisoned.

The poisoner, a Russian spy, Kara, runs to her getaway van, but as the driver is taking off he hits a bicyclist. He stops to check on the cyclist, and naturally the injured man sees his face.

Adam is promoted to acting head of MI-6. His boss is in the hospital. Information about the poisoner is gleaned from various sources and the getaway driver's face is all over the news. Naturally he is killed. By Kara.

Later Adam meets Kara on a bridge. They had a relationship at some point earlier in their careers. She wants intel from him now he is head of MI-6. He rose so quickly to head due to intel she passed along to him without his knowledge.

Police protection is assigned to Adam's family- wife Maddy, daughter Elle, son Callum. Elle is unhappy with this police protection and slips out a different door at school and is kidnapped. Of course. If only kids could be a little more intelligent!

I think, in general, writers should not neceseraly turn all their good plotline ideas into a tv show. First they need to work in details. Details matters. Otherwise they fail.

Few examples from the firsr episode that would really bother any given espionage lover:

Why Kara brings money and gives it to the driver if she was going to kill him in the first place?

Why Kara doesnt give the imo code at the phone call and she sent Adam to the record shop?

How come she cannot reach a file about Baku, while she can reach very much information in UK and many other places?

Why family and wife-husband drama sauce? The guy just became the top of the world's biggest intellogence agency, and his wife is bored about his comportments in day one. And then she immediately spills these out to her "close" friend she has not seen for a long time.

With a great cast, I had high hopes, but this episode seemed very, very silly.

To wit:

• the head of MI6 is a regular at a restaurant and there's no security cameras there at all? 007 would have made sure there was security cameras! This guy's more like 000!

• the "assassin" just waltzes into the kitchen at the club -- great security! - pretends to be the waitress, and no one notices or says anything? What was the MI6 chief's security detail (made up of one bloke) doing? Playing Wordle?

• he doesn't even realize the would-be assassin isn't his regular waitress (who, BTW, knows him by name!)?

• his replacement -- who must be an espionage mastermind since he appears to be only in his late 30s -- gets a surprise promotion, and he's already on date night after just a few days on the job?

• he somehow manages to slip his security detail -- hey wait, why didn't the previous head of MI6 have a security detail? He had just one guy! -- while out on his date?

• his daughter also manages to slip her security detail -- who hired these buffoons? -- and they have no idea where she went. Meanwhile, they seemingly have no idea that her mobile phone has GPS. Somebody please tell MI6 about "Life 360" or "Find My iPhone!" It takes me 2 seconds to know where my kids are!

• While the bumbling MI6 agents lose her, the enemy seemingly knows she would slip her security detail by going out the back door. They're geniuses! Someone needs to hire these guys instead!

Just overall very silly, and probably better suited as a period piece before there was such a thing as "security cameras" and "smartphones."

This is lame from the very beginning.

Something off about 'Bring your daddy to school Day' but who knows, maybe that's a thing in the UK (I only know it from the USA).

Head of MI5 is basically blackmailing Highest Judge. Hope it gets some relation to the plot, otherwise it would just be lame - young immigrant mistress? Haha. C's a tough guy, does what needs to be done, yeah - except notice that someone else than the server he knows BY NAME brings his drink FROM A DIFFERENT DIRECTION. Doesn't ask her name, does not look at her to remember her? Oh, the fallacies of the high-powered arrogant? Nah, just seems stupid.

Adam taking over the Chief's office just like that? Seems odd. Current files/cases? Passwords?

Driver with a conscience is a yawn. Thankfully poisoned. No-one is careful around her it seems. Haha.

Sulky teenage daughter is a yawn.

Him not raising alarm about the books is the first sign that he's a fake.

Okay, we get thrown off and for a second thinking he's in on it, that is the ONLY interesting thing in this episode.

Wife spilling to her CIA friend is a yawn, and why is she not followed/protected, why is her contact not security checked? Her believing that pathetic friend's story is a joke. Coincidence, yea. Boooooring.

Needless fabricated complication with the record store to get that number.... and a record from a singer from Baku??!! Is he being set up? Maybe/probably, but I don't care. Why should I?

Whiny wife is a yawn.

Yeah, I get it, lots of quid pro quo in the intelligence world, so what's blackmail and what isn't I guess. It's basically all a yawn because everybody spies so everybody knows the secrets and keeps them for future quid pro quo. And all pretend they're important and protectors. Haha.

Fake and boring 'suspense' about annoying daughter. The wife is so over-the-top it's just bad.

Not sure I'm going to keep watching. All very lame.