Review of Episode #1.6

Bodyguard: Episode #1.6 (2018)
Season 1, Episode 6
2/10
Wonderful screenwriting turns thriller into comedy
19 July 2020
Warning: Spoilers
It is almost comedic how no one was listening to David during the negotiation scene. it's like trying to argue with a child: you try to talk sense into them but child logic functions in a totally different world so you give up and laugh at yourself for trying.

On top of that I cannot help myself from laughing at the utter ridiculousness of David walking down the streets with bomb on himself. I have no idea how big the London area is, but I'd like to imagine it can easily take more than an hour with the speed he had to keep. Surely there are more realistic ways to resolve the plot than this.

I know it is sometime necessary to dumb down characters so your audiences feel smarter and better about themselves, but to lower the audiences' intelligence to this level is quite an extreme step to take. Compared to the dialogue of the train scene in the first episode, it's unbelievable those two episodes were written by the same person.
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