SHOT OF ADRENALINE
Thrilling intense and action packed, Bodyguard is hands down the best show of 2018, writes Karl Puschmann.
IT’S your worst nightmare. You’re on a train, your kids are asleep and you spy a passenger acting suspiciously. But is he suspicious or are you racially profiling him because of the terror alert you heard about on the news earlier?
No, wait, he’s definitely acting all suspicious like. And he’s been in the train’s loo an awfully long time now. Unless you’re in the comfort of your own home nobody needs to be in a toilet that long . . .
You get up, knock on the toilet door and . . . no answer. OK, this dude is definitely not on the level. Your mind’s racing. The news had talked about suicide bombers. Is that what he’s doing in there? We’re far from the station but is this the end of the line?
Mind flooding with fear and brow flooding with sweat you resolve to push him out of the speeding train the second he opens the toilet door. The handle turns, you ready yourself and boom! There he is in front of you, his Tshirt clingingly tight revealing no bulky homemade bomb belt.
Jesus, you think, you almost pushed that poor bastard out of a moving train! Heart beating, you realise you need to calm down, take five, get a damn grip.
You walk into the now vacated toilet and straight into a woman you didn’t know was in there. ‘‘Sorry,’’ you stammer right before you notice she’s wearing a bulky homemade bomb belt and holding a trigger switch . . .
This, then, is how the incredibly tense, brilliant new thriller