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No - not a prediction/discussion thread (although feel free to hijack it if you wish!   ) I've just leafed through next week's Radio Times, and felt a bit of a heads-up was in order:

 

Sunday's finale of "Bodyguard" is an extended episode running from 9-10.15pm. This means it will cross the beginning of BB - which is a particular bind this weekend, as the absence of a Saturday show this season means Sunday's BB will be the first show after the first eviction.

 

Also, "Vanity Fair" on ITV is consistently running from 9-10.05pm, and although Sunday's episode is only the 5th of 7, it's a bit of a key one in that it includes an extended (and by all accounts, pretty dramatic) reconstruction of the Battle of Waterloo.

 

And on top of all that: any FM trying to follow the new C4 series "The Circle" will have to cope with a Sunday episode starting 10pm too! 

 

So the upshot is that for anyone trying to follow anything-else on Sunday, the recorder will have to work overtime! 

Tags: Bodyguard, Vanity Fair, Big Brother, The Circle

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Rexi posted:

I am so utterly confused by Bodyguard ... but I shall persevere for one more week. Basically I suspect everyone ... so I am bound to be right ! 

If it's any consolation, I had to watch Sunday's episode twice! 

 

No spoilers, but there have been warnings that the core of the final episode is a classically tense (and very long ) trademark-Mercurio sequence that will require full concentration. 

For all the "watercooler" nature of the series, I think this episode will definitely need recording...

Eugene's Lair
Eugene's Lair posted:
Rexi posted:

I am so utterly confused by Bodyguard ... but I shall persevere for one more week. Basically I suspect everyone ... so I am bound to be right ! 

If it's any consolation, I had to watch Sunday's episode twice! 

 

No spoilers, but there have been warnings that the core of the final episode is a classically tense (and very long ) trademark-Mercurio sequence that will require full concentration. 

For all the "watercooler" nature of the series, I think this episode will definitely need recording...

Ah now ... there’s an idea ... I shall watch Sunday’s episode again ...

Rexi

Awesome end to the series but it's all down to Jed Mercurio and his approach to build up and flesh out leading characters, make them strong nuanced, seemingly  layered, likeable, or flawed but sympathetic, unlikable, relatable, sympathetic or villainous characters only to off them at any point in the plot.

You don't know what's going to happen in the next minute - that's the genius.  That's a craft in suspense that Mercurio excels at but most fail at.

 

Carnelian
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