"Alex Rider" Serpent (TV Episode 2021) Poster

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(2021)

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studioAT28 February 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Throw the books away, this 'Alex Rider' show has been playing fast and loose with them from the start. If you want a largely faithful adaptation then perhaps the 2006 film (certainly not as bad as people, and indeed Anthony Horrowitz make it out to be) is more your thing.

This episode is a step up from the last, and indeed this second series in general seems to have realised that this isn't some great political drama, we need a bit of action, it's 'Alex Rider' after all. It delivers on this here and it all makes for very entertaining stuff.

I think when this show gets the tone right, and puts the right actors together it's a good one indeed.
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2/10
Nice show
jasonbuckley-029628 January 2022
Quite a good show but Otto is 25 years old and looks stupid in a school uniform. He is meant to be a young teenager if the books were followed.

Maybe they should have just rewritten the part to suit a young spy rather than pretend he was so young. It kinda ruined it for me.

EDIT - 2022 December. I have watched it again and like it even less. I have read all the books and the relationships with MI6 and Alex are all wrong, especially with Smithers. It is not a good show as it does not follow the books in so many ways. Even if I had not read the books, this show is just mediocre.
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