[spooks] Code 9 - My Review - Ep2

Episode 2:

So - Episode 2 then. I thought that this was a bit of a wobbly start - it didn't seem to me that the actors were quite up to speed in the first five minutes, but after the title sequence - which I quite liked - all of my doubts were put to rest.

The story line was  OK - as most of the other reviews have said (ad nauseum) it's an old plot to use - but then aren't they all?  It's the way you do them (said Frank Carson style) rather than the fact that it's a story done before.  As Tom Baker once said - there are only five stories in the World - and they get re-done over and over again (or something like that) and I must say that although I know what was coming, it still retained my attention all the way through.

I liked Charlie's hesitance when he has to make big decisions - wouldn't you, if you'd been put in charge?  It was well acted by Liam Boyle.  Speaking of acting, there was nothing in this episode either, I didn't think, to suggest bad acting.  I've seen bad acting plenty of times - and there wasn't any in this episode (as suggested ad nauseum again by the reviews).  Brilliant acting by the guest actor Oona Chaplin (incidentally, she is the granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin) at the end of the episode though.

OK - so I am biased - but this was Georgia's best episode out of the two so far.  Mind you - we haven't yet focussed on her character yet in the series - I believe that's to come in Episode 3.

It's still good entertainment and I shall continue to watch!

Roll on Episode 3!!