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I gave it 7 stars. Maybe realistically a 6 but wanted to balance out the stupid ones and twos. I watched all episodes back to back. Kept husband and I intrigued all the way through. Of course there was plot holes, and yes, suspend belief. I'm quite sure this isn't how MI5 or the CIA operate, but it doesn't stop it being a good story. People watch Marvel and can manage to suspend belief and still enjoy it, why so different just because you think it should be.

Excellent acting. Believable characters, even if the wife is annoying for 3 out of the 5 episodes. Fast paced and enjoyable. Give it a go.

Find it difficult to believe MI6 boss needs to be and is expected to be home for dinner and to put his kids to bed every night. Ridiculous to see the wife overreacting & dishing to her long lost friend that her husband had to go to a record store at 10:00pm to get a gift for someone when she knows his job probably entails weird, secret behaviors and actions. He's a spy, he does spy stuff. You should know this and not get all upset and jealous when he's on his laptop in the middle of the night. I thought the show looked interesting, but shut it off before end of first episode because too far fetched.

From a magic pen that can hear caller's on a phone, to inept highly trained professionals that can't keep an eye on a boats hatch, there's all manner of idiocy in this show.

I will say, Charlie Cox plays a pretty good part. He's not an outstandingly brilliant actor by any stretch of the imagination, but he's well cast and does his best with the script etc.

Unfortunately, the rest.of the show is subpar spy nonsense with Deus Ex Machinas for every corner they wrote themselves into. It makes for a show you can only really enjoy if you turn logic and rational thought off for a while.

If it had run any longer than it does, I'd have not watched beyond episode 2 because spending 10 or 11 hours with this show would be way way too much.

Ridiculous plots destroy what could have been a good show, the twists are so silly and childish they are well beyond belief.

The hero who gets promoted to chief of MI6 is totally clueless, too young and too compromised to even look real.

At every stage, individuals are infiltrating MI6 with a mobile phone while sitting at home, MI6 is this bunch of no nothing guys sitting around in flash offices wearing flash suits cracking jokes and making childish remarks about National security, there doesn't appear to be any security around them or their families, its just too silly.

The episodes move along quickly mainly because the script is si weak and silly it cannot sustain long conversations.

So it's not the greatest spy thriller, but once you get past the first couple of episodes it picks up steam and becomes quite gripping. Throwing everything in the pot you have dodgy MI6 higher ups, Russian spies, dodgy CIA operatives, British government corruption, blackmailing, assassins, and various conspiracies. For those moaning don't take it so seriously, it's not James Bond. It was good it was wrapped up in 5 episodes. I actually preferred it to the latest Jack Ryan which is more paint by numbers and quite flat in comparison. I particularly enjoyed Ciaran Hinds as the head of MI6, Oona Chaplin as the number 2's ex military wife and Olga Kurylenko as the Russian agent.