{"id":342,"date":"2003-07-08T09:31:38","date_gmt":"2003-07-08T09:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2003\/07\/spooks_2\/"},"modified":"2003-07-08T09:31:38","modified_gmt":"2003-07-08T09:31:38","slug":"spooks_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/spooks_2\/","title":{"rendered":"Spooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well Tim Henman forced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/spooks\">Spooks<\/a> off our screens, with BBC 3 repeating the previous week&#8217;s claustrophobic episode.<br \/>\nOnce again, we had no actual &#8220;incident&#8221;, rather the ramifications of a Presidential visit to the UK. The episode seemed reasonably realistic, although any kind of personnel officer who behaved as the MI5 one did wouldn&#8217;t last long.<br \/>\nI quite liked the fact that Natasha Little&#8217;s character is quite so vindictive. And what an excellent idea, putting up flyers in Soho phone boxes and clubs offering &#8220;services&#8221;, and printing Tom&#8217;s phone numbers. It seems absolutely right that it should be Natasha Little since she was excellent as Becky Sharp a few years ago in <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0159090\">Vanity Fair<\/a> (although it&#8217;s strange that she&#8217;s to be in another version of the book being made into a Reese Witherspoon <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0241025\">film<\/a> &#8211; I don&#8217;t believe that a film can ever do Thackery&#8217;s book justice).<br \/>\nGood to see that our American cousins are getting more involved with MI5 too. An interesting little twist. I do enjoy Spooks &#8211; a definite appointment to view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well Tim Henman forced Spooks off our screens, with BBC 3 repeating the previous week&#8217;s claustrophobic episode. Once again, we had no actual &#8220;incident&#8221;, rather the ramifications of a Presidential visit to the UK. The episode seemed reasonably realistic, although any kind of personnel officer who behaved as the MI5 one did wouldn&#8217;t last long. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}