The Lemon Fool

Anyone watching the rather intriguing The Undeclared War on C4? This week's episode was mainly in Russian as most of the action took place in Russia.

...Just an add on* (so to speak!). When I said "mainly in Russian" I really meant pretty well entirely in Russian.

Anyway, another of these hilarious after programme announcement: "If you have been affected by any of the issues..."

Yeah! That'll come in real handy if I'm an FSB employed double agent - after being kidnapped by FSB operators to put pressure on my rich dad to get me to work for the FSB in a programme designed to undermine western countries before starting a war - who is having an affair with a women working in the same Russian troll factory as myself while she is working undercover for an anti Putin Russian news site and has just been offered a job working in London by a Russian state propaganda news agency.

Well, it happens.

* You have been paying attention, no?

I saw a bit last night. Flicked on to check out if it was worth a watch. I thought Id just hit a particular spot that was subtitled, guess not.

As for the "If you have been affected by any of the issues..."

I missed that bit but can understand the irony. It might be worth a spoiler warning though.

Im not sure it convinced me yet but it has Simon Pegg. I might wait a while to see if there are more positive comments before a revisit.

Have only watched the first episode so far, but the multiple scenes of ‘person searching through a library or archive room’ to replicate searching for something online has got boring really, really quickly.

I know watching people type into a computer and then fake streams of stuff appear on screen isn’t thrilling, but although this might have appeared a good idea in the writers room, it isn’t. It really isn’t.

I've bingewatched so I've seen the series. I thought the first 2 episodes were so-so but things picked up . I wasn't convinced by Ms Khalique-Brown in the role and the "mind castles " malarkey coupled with her "uncertainty" about her sexuality....nah! I thought things stepped up with "Vadim" ( German Segal) as the main focus of the episode. I was also unsure about the plot line for Mark Rylance's character....especially in the final episode ( unbelievable).

Thought provoking but forgettable as a storyline.

Well it picked up slightly, although the tedious and superfluous ‘searching through a library’ scenes continued.

But the ending. Pathetic.

I had to actually check online the series had actually finished and I hadn’t overlooked the final episode.

So the last episode left you waiting for the next - then job done.
I enjoyed it good how to you respond without looking that you responded

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chrissyr wrote:So the last episode left you waiting for the next - then job done.

As there has been no announcement of a second series, then if that was the logic then they could have saved some money and stopped at the end of the first episode.