The Guardian asks: Spooks - overblown nonsense or top tv? Definitely top tv. Is it overblown and nonsensical? Of course. But sometimes that's exactly what makes top tv. After all, it's a tv show, it's absurd by definition. If someone is really interested in the daily trappings of spy life, go watch a cubicle. A good percentage of a spy's job is paper pushing and bureaucratic somersaulting anyway (so I'm told...). The point is not whether 5 lean Gucci-outfitted spies can save the whole of Britain with science-defying technology; the point is we like to imagine they can. It's fun, exciting, and damn sexy, very unlike most our lives. Okay, very unlike my life. How probable is it that a section head like Harry Pearce would be taken hostage by the Russian secret service, stuffed in a body bag, and bundled in a boot? Not very. But you sure want to tune in tonight and find out how it unravels.
