Cobra rebellion review

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Hear that? That's the sound of the couch calling. It's cold and wet, it's dark when we get up, it's dark when we leave work, in other words, hibernation season has officially begun. Wading through the slush of shows on offer at this of year to find those much-watch gems is a whole other matter however and inevitably eats into our hard-earned downtime. Sky's political thriller has quickly amassed a strong fan base since premiering in and it's back with a bang this month on Sky Max screens with a third season for your viewing pleasure. For those new to the series, it hangs on the highly charged comings and goings of Downing Street's head honchos as they navigate major national catastrophes, political back-biting and personal scandal, after personal scandal. Pretty nifty right?

Cobra rebellion review

Victoria Hamilton and Robert Carlyle shine in this predictable but compelling disaster drama about a geothermal storm. Look, Cobra is kind of a silly drama. At one point I was going to give it two stars. It's so predictable, I thought! I have a ton of objections! And yet, for days afterwards, I was itching to watch more. Then after episode two, I wanted to watch episode three. So: four stars for Sky One's slightly-ludicrous new show. Robert Carlyle stars as Prime Minister Robert Sutherland, leading the nation through a sudden and unexpected crisis. Cobra, of course, is short for "Cabinet Office briefing room A" and is a council that meets in times of emergency; in this instance it does not refer to a venomous snake, though you'd better watch out for Archie. The PM has a lot to worry about besides threats to his leadership, because the scientists are saying that the sun is about to emit a solar flare and cause a geomagnetic storm and fry the electricity grid and mess up all the plane navigation systems. This is Very Bad News. And if you've watched the trailer, it's not much of a spoiler to say that things quickly descend into chaos when the lights go out. Of course, writer Ben Richards has set up a bunch of bombs to explode in all his main characters' personal lives just as the crisis hits. Civil contingency planner Fraser Walker Richard Dormer has an elderly dad in a care home; the PM's daughter is in quite a plight; and a mysterious man from Anna's past has just turned up at her front door.

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What starts as knockabout action, with shades of every impending natural cataclysm movie ever, morphs quickly into a moreish exploration of low politics and high ambition, with subtle and timely nods to that squalid belt where extreme left and right meet. This transition might have come about through necessity, the overall budget surely taking a pummelling by the first episode having an aircraft explode while crash landing on the A1. Robert Carlyle is a gentle, decent, modern Conservative prime minister. Enough of your sneery kneejerk cavilling! Aided by brightest button chief of staff Victoria Hamilton and a couple of heroic cops and civil emergency officers in the handsome shapes of Richard Dormer and Steven Cree, he must briefly save the country from sudden raging solar flares, which take out most power and bring down planes; but this is, if anything, a mere survivable subplot.

If political thrillers are your thing then COBRA is a series you need to add to your must-watch list. The series follows senior politicians and leading experts as they have to respond to a national crisis — much like the real-life COBRA Committee who convene to deal with issues of national emergency. The first series of COBRA hit screens in January and followed Prime Minister Robert Sutherland as he — and his government — fight for control following a massive solar flare which leaves most of the UK without power. To the joy of fans, Robert Carlyle returned in his role as Prime Minister Robert Sutherland with the government having to deal with a new national emergency — a series of cyberattacks. The official synopsis for the third series, as released by Sky reads:. When an unforeseen environmental disaster causes enormous destruction and loss of life, the consequences are far reaching for the Prime Minister.

Cobra rebellion review

The third season of the tense political drama , which airs on Sky Max and Sky Showcase in the UK, finds Sutherland, played by Robert Carlyle, facing turmoil due to personal issues, challenges from environmental activists and internal cabinet threats. After dealing with the fallout from a solar flare and a cyberattack in previous seasons, the new run sees Conservative Prime Minister Sutherland and his colleagues in COBRA the Cabinet Office briefing rooms where emergency situations are discussed tackle environmental campaigners Planet Resistance, who are protesting against the construction of a new railway line. But the opening up of a sinkhole during a protest brings tragedy. Meanwhile, vultures within his own party are circling and looking to step into his shoes. Can he stay in Downing Street? It has cost him a lot, so what more will he sacrifice to remain in power?

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Reuse this content. Then they climb up on a roof, very obviously in a studio, and watch the Technicolor sunset. Share on pinterest. Duke of Edinburgh poses with Labrador puppy Teasel in new photographs shared to mark At this point, the less-than-subtle metaphor equating blood-sucking to gay sex becomes blatant, and the two chaps float into the air, entwined. For better or worse the actress has been immortalised as the hilariously ridiculous Bubble in Absolutely Fabulous but COBRA: Rebellion sees her tackle the role of hard-nosed Defence Secretary Victoria Dalton and that's worth tuning in for alone. It is also glacial in its slowness. By the end of episode two we have no idea if any other countries were affected by the geomagnetic storm, or whether the sun just targeted the British Isles specifically. First ever over-the-counter cholesterol test goes on sale in supermarkets around Britain as Tesco stock the That is a face I hope I never meet.

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In later years he managed to reconcile these parts of his life. So can I get my money back? Where it judders, I think, is in its insistence of a couple of ho-hum subplots, as the momentum lurches away from the crisis at hand, and on — while trying not to vouchsafe any spoilers — the insistence on a couple of handsome, workaday civil servants saving the day like Bruce Willis. Email address Sign Up. A series of set-piece scenes clash wildly in tone. The terrifying reason Cat Deeley fled the US with her family after 14 years ahead of her This Morning debut Billionaire Easdale brothers who left school at 16 to work at their father's scrap metal yard reveal how Hear that? Singer sends fans wild with cryptic lyrics on her new album Denise Richards rocks bold curls as she ditches her trademark waves - and gets fans talking over the new look Renee Zellweger and Ant Anstead keep it casual in laid-back wear as they go for leisurely dog walk Her mother is a star who worked with Ben Affleck and dad is an actor too who was in a Reese Witherspoon movie. Ant and Dec forced to apologise after guest swears live on air during Saturday Night Takeaway prank Gisele Bundchen has legs for days as she works up a sweat at Miami gym Begbie would have bottled him. Not at all. Are the other countries just sitting there and watching in silence?