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Bodyguard: a casual confirmation of lazy thinking
ANDY HEDGECOCK takes issues with the dangerous hype surrounding the BBC series

IN THE 1990s sitcom Nightingales, the apparently harmless lead characters were occasionally transformed into evil Shakespearean villains. Lightning flashed and the set filled with smoke, while the cast hissed murderous plot lines in iambic pentameter and struck poses from Laurence Olivier’s version of Richard III.

 

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