Collateral - BBC2 Crime Drama

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Anyone watching this?

Caught up on Episode 1 last night and it was pretty decent with a strong cast - Carey Mulligan, John Simm, Billie Piper.

Intriguing.

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Well that went downhill rapidly!

So many cliches compared to the opener - the cringeworthy scenes with the MI5 bloke; the sex-pest army superior who was absolutely hamming it up; the social-political themes shoe-horned in e.g. council underfunding, Iraq, sexism in the army.

And the back and forth between Mulligan and her partner was incredibly unnatural and scripted.

It was like a completely different program!