Spooks-versary!
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thisbluespiritToday Spooks (aka MI-5) is 20! I must now be officially old as this was my first grown-up, moved away, fannish TV love. Although maybe I shouldn't celebrate till next year because I hadn't quite made up my mind over S1 - it was S2 where I fell in love. It happened about the time that Ruth Evershed walked in, dropped all her files and wanted to bugger the Home Office.
Anyway, happy 20th to the show that was so great at angst and pain and killing all our favourites! (Top Spooks Death Scenes is definitely a list I should get to sometimes. I know what number one is. I can never even so much as think "Look at all the lovely cake and presents" without having to blink back tears. Yep, doing it again now...)
And in all seriousness, it was great, and it changed UK TV and how it was made. If you liked a UK drama of any sort made in the following 10 years, you need to thank Spooks for it. It has the record currently for most nominations for a BAFTA for a drama series. Later series might have been more variable, but it was always a ride, scarily good at predicting the news right from the off (S1 pitching and early production pre-dated 9/11), and a great big snarky tragedy in disguise as a case of the week spy show with an amazing cast. <3
Plus, if you're in the UK, the BBC currently has the whole 10 series up for mainlining on the iPlayer here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b006mf4b/spooks (Warnings for, like, everything ever... XD)
Some celebratory gifs, which are just things I had hanging around, so mostly of Ruth, because Ruth.
Bench on the Embankment. It is not Spooks if there is not a bench by the Thames for chatting about state secrets on. London is also a major character.
How we all end up sooner or later. Also, early Spooks = green. Very green.
It all went much more blue later.
When Harry And Ruth Held Hands On A Bus (and we all died.)
Two people who could bring down the government but aren't good at workplace dating.
Not Ruth! Or Harry! Raza Jaffrey as Zaf Younis, another fave, and Miranda Raison as Jo Portman.
I shamefully do not even have any Tom gifs, which you'd think I might, but there you are.
Anyway, also sorry about not posting again. I was not that bad, I was just very blah and it was very weird last week generally for a few reasons.
Anyway, happy 20th to the show that was so great at angst and pain and killing all our favourites! (Top Spooks Death Scenes is definitely a list I should get to sometimes. I know what number one is. I can never even so much as think "Look at all the lovely cake and presents" without having to blink back tears. Yep, doing it again now...)
And in all seriousness, it was great, and it changed UK TV and how it was made. If you liked a UK drama of any sort made in the following 10 years, you need to thank Spooks for it. It has the record currently for most nominations for a BAFTA for a drama series. Later series might have been more variable, but it was always a ride, scarily good at predicting the news right from the off (S1 pitching and early production pre-dated 9/11), and a great big snarky tragedy in disguise as a case of the week spy show with an amazing cast. <3
Plus, if you're in the UK, the BBC currently has the whole 10 series up for mainlining on the iPlayer here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b006mf4b/spooks (Warnings for, like, everything ever... XD)
Some celebratory gifs, which are just things I had hanging around, so mostly of Ruth, because Ruth.
Bench on the Embankment. It is not Spooks if there is not a bench by the Thames for chatting about state secrets on. London is also a major character.
How we all end up sooner or later. Also, early Spooks = green. Very green.
It all went much more blue later.
When Harry And Ruth Held Hands On A Bus (and we all died.)
Two people who could bring down the government but aren't good at workplace dating.
Not Ruth! Or Harry! Raza Jaffrey as Zaf Younis, another fave, and Miranda Raison as Jo Portman.
I shamefully do not even have any Tom gifs, which you'd think I might, but there you are.
Anyway, also sorry about not posting again. I was not that bad, I was just very blah and it was very weird last week generally for a few reasons.
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Date: 21 May 2022 05:15 pm (UTC)