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Finished the series yesterday. Enjoyed it greatly, although the formula is wearing a little thin – too many implausibilities, even allowing for suspension of disbelief, eg Almeida functioning anywhere near full effectiveness after being shot and undergoing throat surgery…<\/p>\n

Lots of things remain in my mind from it. It seemed to be struggling too hard not to have a happy ending – hence the many sadnesses and sacrifices (Almeida must be pardoned!) – but most of all I am left reflecting on the portrait of ‘hardness’. I say that rather than ‘masculinity’ because I’m not sure that what is being portrayed is male – but there seems to be a celebration of ruthlessness, undercut rather expertly by the negative consequences (this time) of such ruthlessness – in every case, I think.<\/p>\n

Well worth watching – should you find yourself ill for a weekend with nothing else that you can cope with \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finished the series yesterday. Enjoyed it greatly, although the formula is wearing a little thin – too many implausibilities, even allowing for suspension of disbelief, eg Almeida functioning anywhere near full effectiveness after being shot and undergoing throat surgery… Lots … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-film-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3npsc-243","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}