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Spooks Code 9Filed Under: Television

So, last night saw the first couple of episodes of the new BBC drama, Spooks Code 9. I’ve always quite enjoyed watching the usual Spooks series (even if only to play the game of which lead character is going to get killed off next), so I figured I’d give this new one a shufty.

The premise for this series is that a nuclear bomb has gone off in London during the 2012 Olympics, and the series follows a set of agents recruited in the aftermath trying to do what the Spooks lot usually do, stopping terrorists performing their nefarious deeds. The episodes are shorter than those of the original series, clocking in at 50 minutes rather than an hour, and accordingly there seems to be less that happens in the episodes.

So far the plots in the episodes haven’t been particularly enthralling, although they have set the wheels in motion with the requisite long-running plot. Unfortunately this, along with a number of other things in the first two episodes, have been rather clichéd.

I’ll probably still end up watching the other episodes in the series (if only because I’ve set my BT Vision box to record the series) and perhaps it will get better, but I’ve not really got high hopes after this first pair of episodes.

Tags: bbc, bbc three, drama, spooks, spooks code 9