Bodyguard starts off well, with a captivating opening scene which sees Richard Madden throw off his Robb Stark shackles and assert himself as a notable talent. However, despite Madden's strong performance throughout, this show was one big sloppy mess. The plot is just far too extreme, and it is littered with logistical errors and infeasible character arcs.

Madden and the well-cast Keeley Hawes keep the show's head above water in the early episodes, but it unravels quite rapidly towards the end. Many of the important characters are not introduced properly and I was struggling to keep up with the vast array of stern middle-aged men and their ridiculously far-fetched motives. Essentially, we end up with the police force, the government, the mafia and ISIS all teaming up together for some unconstrued reason and are forced to believe that a mentally unstable 30-year-old police officer is capable of stopping them. Bodyguard is another case of poor writing and character development being buried underneath a stupidly complex storyline and hoping nobody notices. And based on the acclaim this show has received, it seems that many did not.