TV Series· 2018· Thriller

Bodyguard

by Jed Mercurio

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House of Cards

TV Series · 2013

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A general debt. Jed Mercurio has said he wanted to bring to British television the political thriller that American shows like House of Cards had been doing: power, ambition and conspiracy at the top of government.

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Bodyguard

The six-part series centres around the fictional character of Police Sergeant David Budd, a British Army war veteran suffering from PTSD, who is now working for the Royalty and Specialist Protection Branch of London's Metropolitan Police Service. He is assigned as the principal protection officer (PPO) for the ambitious Home Secretary Julia Montague, whose politics he despises. The series draws attention to controversial issues such as government monitoring of private information and its regulation, the politics of intervention and terrorism, and PTSD.

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