MI-5, Volume 4 (2003)

MI-5 season 4

It was quite good but I'm getting tired of all the main characters leaving or getting killed off. Is it really necessary? April 20, 2008

Great Spooks

We love MI-5. Can't believe we have to wait almost a year for next season.
Great writing, really good acting. Totally rocks.

One thing that really sets this series apart is their willingness to kill off regulars February 29, 2008

Great season

As always, MI-5 does not offer cheap thrills or gauranteed success of "good" over "evil". Almost all episodes remain complex and often morally ambiguous, with everybody paying the price. January 7, 2008

Helluva finish!

Season 4 did not disappoint...

Like a lot of other fans, we first caught MI-5 on A&E and BBC America, but couldn't watch it consistently. DVD Boxsets are a God-send. My wife and I blazed through the first 3 seasons between Thanksgiving and Christmas, and just finished Series 4 a couple days ago. Thank goodness Series 5 will be out next week, because I don't think we could wait too long to see how the cliff-hanger gets resolved.

I'm a huge fan of the way the show tackles all the thorny issues that go hand-in-hand with fighting enemies, who have declared to the world that your destruction is their reason for being.

The themes that run through Series 4, are all too real -- Abuse of power, misuse of intelligence agencies for political purposes, controlling/manipulating the media, disillusioned officers, etc., etc., etc..

The episodes are written in a fast-paced manner, and the emotional impact of each crisis on the officers' humanity, as well as on the victims and conspirators is always obvious. This isn't a show where violence is gratuitously presented; it's always the honest, realistic result of the circumstances leading up to it.

There are moments where we are reminded that spooks are a breed-apart, and dispite the temptation to romanticize them, there's a great deal of pain (physcial and psychological) that goes with the territory. Spooks lie for a living, but they also have to be singularly brilliant to get the best of fanatics, psychopathic-killers, and homicidal-idealists, hell-bent on raining terror down on society.

MI-5 is a great show, and Series 4 did not disappoint.
January 4, 2008

Another great MI-5

This is a great series: Well-written, great presentations, strong acting and very intelligent. Many controversial issues involved in the world of counterintelligence or the so-called "War on Terror" are addressed thoughtfully and with more balance than in shows heavy in propaganda (e.g. "24"). December 6, 2007

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