If you are fond of superhero stories with big budget action scenes like 24, Bodyguard would be your taste. As a big fan of Line of Duty, however, I was disappointed at the quality of Bodyguard.

The similarities of Bodyguard and 24 are classical simple dichotomies: right/wrong, hero/evil, friend/foe, and one honest guy/large-scale organized crime. A tough guy alone tackles a series of terrorism acts, constantly being swayed by colleagues and high ranking politicians and officers. Viewers may really get excited to search for a clue who the true traitors and mastermind are behind the scenes. Once they are revealed, however, you will question their motives.

I also would like to point out the difference between Line of Duty and Bodyguard. The center of LoD is real-life people whereas that of Bodyguard is roller-coaster events. No one in LoD is perfectly right or wrong. Through nail-biting interrogation interviews in LoD, you will find characters' beliefs, struggles, bargaining tactics and lessons learned. It's not a black and white agenda. It could happen to everyone. You may be even attracted with criminals.

On the other hand, Bodyguard failed in portraying people. Jed Marcurio (the writer) probably came up with the idea of terrorism first, and then decided the criminals and their motives later. If Marcurio had set the motives first, he would have definitely chose different ways of crimes. Thus, the perpetrators look like selfish idiots and act like a two-dimensional pawn. Most of reasoning and course of actions do not make sense to me.

Not sure BBC will renew Bodyguard for its series 2, but probably I will pass.