Victoria Hamilton is smashingly good in the rather entertainingly silly first series of Sky drama Cobra
“We’ve had a plane crash on the A1 and we have a solar storm that could wipe out our power supply, I just don’t have time for this”
In such a crowded TV market, it can sometimes be difficult to even find out what TV shows are on, never mind remember to get round to watching them. I find that doubly so for original dramas on Sky, which is a shame as there’s often some decent stuff on there. One of those is Cobra, created and written by Ben Richards, who wrote a fair number of episodes of Spooks and you can sense that show’s DNA rippling through these six episodes here.
This first series of Cobra lies somewhere between disaster movie and political thriller and even if it can’t quite make its mind up, there’s something daftly enjoyable about it which is encapsulated in the quote above. Robert Carlyle leads as beleagured PM Robert Sutherland who has to deal with these huge crises, along with managing burgeoning insurrections from his fellow Tories and dealing with his daughter’s best friend dying from drugs she provided. Continue reading “TV Review: Cobra, Series 1”