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Bodyguard (TV Miniseries)

Bodyguard

2018

Jed Mercurio (Creator), Thomas Vincent ...

Richard Madden, Keeley Hawes, Stuart Bowman, Tom Brooke ...

6.9

9,275

TV Series. Thriller. Drama TV Miniseries (2018). 6 Episodes. Set in and around the corridors of power, "Bodyguard" tells the fictional story of David Budd, a heroic but volatile war veteran now working as a Specialist Protection Officer for the Royalty and Specialist Protection Branch of London's Metropolitan Police Service. When he is assigned to protect the ambitious and powerful Home Secretary Julia Montague, whose politics stand for everything he despises, ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Daniel D'Addario Variety	"It’s a six-episode ride that demands, and rewards, a quick binge (...) With nearly as much sprightly imagination as fellow recent British thriller 'Killing Eve'"
		Tim Goodman The Hollywood Reporter	"Massively entertaining (...) 'Bodyguard' succeeds almost immediately at setting the hook and then races for six episodes and six-plus hours of pulse-pounding action and brain-bending twists"
		Sarah Hughes The Guardian	"A twisty and tense opener (...) A relaxed and charismatic performance [by Madden]"
		Hanh Nguyen IndieWire	"In just 10 minutes, show creator Jed Mercurio will lay claim to the next six hours of your life (...) Mesmerizing performances by Richard Madden and Keeley Hawes"
		Mike Hale The New York Times	"Budd is hazily sketched (...) Mercurio’s breakneck story feels, at every moment, both carefully constructed and made up on the spot."
		Morgan Jeffery Digital Spy	"A hugely arresting opener and a follow-up that, if anything, raised the stakes and upped the tension"
		Louisa Mellor Den of Geek	"A finely wrought political thriller (...) Montague’s character couldn’t be in safer hands than Keeley Hawes’."
		Sean O'Grady The Independent	"'Bodyguard' is an extremely successful production (...) Jed Mercurio’s excellent script can’t help but borrow from real life (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Peter Crawley Irish Times	"[Mercurio] has a way of bringing psychological complexity to the more outlandish pleasures of the thriller genre, and 'Bodyguard' slaloms happily between the two"
		Roland White The Times	"[It] might be the best thing Jed Mercurio has ever written. For the first 20 minutes, there was scarcely a moment to draw breath."

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