Cobra rebellion review

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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.

Series three sees the storyline hit home for Prime Minister Sutherland and not for the first time.

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. What it mainly does is leave the country open to chaos, chiefly focused on the north-east, the only, increasingly angry area not to get its power back. Cue strikes, infiltration by far-right activists, riots in a deportation centre, press-inspired lynchings and, chiefly, a wolfish grin around the chops of arch-bigot and home secretary David Haig, chewing up the scenery and loving it.

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? Robert Carlyle The Full Monty , Trainspotting reprises his role as beleaguered Prime Minister Robert Sutherland, but the fight for Sutherland's political future becomes tough as Britain is swamped by social unrest.

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Politicians' families are being targeted in a 'dangerous' escalation of the threat to their safety amid war Anti-hatred tsar quits because of all the hate he got before he even starts the job in embarrassing blow for Hear that? Most viewed. It's so weird. The PM is indecisive in the face of catastrophe, his wife is cross because he's late for dinner again, their daughter Ellie Marisa Abela is getting herself into all sorts of trouble, and the government consists entirely of frightfully posh people stabbing each other in the back. How much luck does the monarchy have left? Of course he was too kind-hearted to see Blossom, his favourite cow, go to the knacker's yard. For a start, it's set in , not 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 initially signed on for just six episodes but the enduring appeal of COBRA keeps tempting him back despite his other projects including the much-anticipated spin-off Trainspotting series and it's always a sign of a must-watch when the cast and crew are excited to get back to work. In the real world, the nation's phone batteries would die in a few hours and we'd all be back to using morse code or carrier pigeons or something. View image in fullscreen.

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It is also glacial in its slowness. MPs want Boris to front another European referendum on the same day as the General Election - but this time It's so weird. Halloween Brad Pitt Tom Cruise. Share on reddit. Let us hope it finally brings him some French president Emmanuel Macron lashes out at rumours his wife was born a man. This time, a village Up North has fallen into a sinkhole created by railway excavations and tunnelling eco-warriors — and Ellie is in one of those tunnels. Are the other countries just sitting there and watching in silence? How much luck does the monarchy have left? View image in fullscreen. In later years he managed to reconcile these parts of his life.