Spooks: Code 9

CCTV, check. Terrorists, check. Unnecessary concern for bureaucracy, check. Truly great looking people saving the world, check.

Must be Spooks. ... only in this case, we've got truly great looking 20 yr olds who have been fast tracked through spy school following a nuclear attack on London in 2012.

Britain needs new spies, younger spies, hotter spies... or so the tag line tells us. Welcome to Spooks: Code 9.

Not sure we needed a spinoff since this really is the same show. It's like they just wanted the hawt. A group of 20 year olds who live together and occasionally go to clubs before a mission. It's like the Real World meets 24. More violent, more modern and laced with more profanity than its predecessor it's nevertheless competently made and well-written. The world these kids live in is darker, and more dangerous. And who cares if they like to intercut the gang having a laugh with ongoing civil unrest... soul searching hawt with refugee camps and machine guns. I like it.

I've seen the first 3 episodes and it's a lot better than I thought it was going to be.... nothing worth noting in particular. Though seeing a post-apocalyptic world through these young eyes is good material. And watching them trying to overcome their youth and inexperience in a high pressure situation is solid drama... and there's none of that awkward Felicity-esque teen angst. It's the stories, these kids learning to be adults and the desperate times they live in.

Like I said, I like it. Better than Primeval.

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