Hostage Takeover Week Minisode: COBRA TV Show Seasons 1 & 2 Review

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[00:00:10] Prime Minister, we've got a really serious situation.

[00:00:13] The high-speed plasma eruption is heading straight for us.

[00:00:16] The storm will certainly cause huge damage.

[00:00:19] Some areas could be without power for months.

[00:00:21] All the navigational systems are out.

[00:00:23] This is now a national emergency.

[00:00:25] We're the ones who have to make the decisions.

[00:00:27] People are dying because of your government.

[00:00:30] This country's on the brink.

[00:00:32] I made a promise to the people and I'm gonna keep that promise.

[00:00:35] COBRA, Sunday October 4th at 10-9 Central, only on PBS.

[00:00:48] Welcome all, welcome all.

[00:01:28] No shortage of just awesome, just cult cinema in TV shows.

[00:01:38] And in this case, we decided to take up a more recent show.

[00:01:41] It's kind of been called The Answer to 24, but in Britain it is called Cobra.

[00:01:49] In relation to Cobra Kai, in relation to the still-off movie, yeah, Cobra.

[00:01:53] Standing for, again, the cabinet office briefing room.

[00:01:57] The show was created by a bunch of great filmmakers.

[00:02:02] It is Ben Richards, who is best known for his work on Spooks, which you might know as MI5 in the US, as well as The Tunnel.

[00:02:09] In a Virgin Media interview, he noted he was like, he was trying to tie politics to an exciting story.

[00:02:16] What made it very disconcerting to learn that a solar storm is a real possibility.

[00:02:20] So he pretty much just took every other disaster thing you could think of.

[00:02:25] The reviews were mixed.

[00:02:27] A lot of the UK guys were really hard on it, just not buying the implausible scenarios or how the public would react.

[00:02:34] Well, that's on you. You know, I can suspend belief.

[00:02:37] And as a conservative president with a very liberal staff and a bunch of other just assholes trying to undermine them for their own political gain,

[00:02:45] it's going to entertain for most people, especially if you're looking for some other just lighter tech-savvy type terrorism mixed in with the usual West Wing, Air Force One type, you know, chats.

[00:03:00] And the cast all delivers. You love how, you know, they've said on the record they love playing these, you know, characters who have a real gray area.

[00:03:11] Like the prime minister is not ready to deal with his dysfunctional family and their mental health problems.

[00:03:17] The chief of staff is really not liking how everyone's ignoring her advice.

[00:03:23] And again, the home secretary is a piece of shit, just a real worm, just looking to just undermine everybody and then take all the credit for their ideas and find a way to run.

[00:03:34] And you're just, you want him to fill at every point in the thing.

[00:03:39] It's been on and off again. The other guys playing the scientists and other people speaking on it are really terrific.

[00:03:47] I love how it's an electrical storm that causes a plasma geometrical eruption in the first one and start to deal with a blackout.

[00:03:56] And then season two, they're having to deal with the computer hacking. Season three is not long, it's far away.

[00:04:02] But yeah, I think the show has about five more years left in it. I love, you know, not sometimes even by eight episodes, it can feel a little over long at times, but it never dragged and never made me say, fuck it.

[00:04:17] They're out of ideas or they got too clever for their own good.

[00:04:21] No, they knew exactly what they're making with this. And this is recommended for all those other people looking for some cool political thrillers mixed in with disaster movie tropes that.

[00:04:32] Don't have explosions every minute, but still have a cool like, you know, we've done where we're free to death and we've done plenty of other just political tensions.

[00:04:42] And I like how this brings into questions. It's like, could you trust your government to do a competent Passover and keep people safe without breaking the law or doing it for their own personal monetary gain?

[00:04:58] You know, so this was just cool to just see a commentary on this. And I, you know, people can complain about how they do or don't buy this in a British setting.

[00:05:08] I find it way more interesting in this British setting because I feel like the U.S. always just caters to, you know, the U.S. would focus then on just what is social media thing?

[00:05:19] What is, you know, let's take a vote on this or that. It was like, no, this is a time of crisis. We're not fighting a war. We're fighting a survival here.

[00:05:28] And we got to keep the power grid on and plenty of other stuff. Like they talk about protests and riots in the street and other stuff.

[00:05:36] And I like how it doesn't shy away from some uncomfortable topics. And I also like how it knows when to move on to the next topic without feeling like, whoa, whoa, whoa.

[00:05:46] You set up too much stuff. Why don't you revisit that or close it out before moving on to the next thing?

[00:05:51] No, it's it doesn't introduce too much stuff before without while making you think, hey, that was that was a rush hack job.

[00:05:59] No, it's it's pretty even overall. And even the characters who last like two to three episodes are interesting, too.

[00:06:06] And they're often civilians or other survivors or protesters or scientists and that they leave their mark as well.

[00:06:14] So very recommended Cobra. It's a passing grade for us.

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