I'll be brief on the premise itself... Fantastic opening scenes followed by suspense and surprise throughout the early episodes leaving you on the hook for the finale...

Madden and Rundle and Hawes are outstanding and supported by very competant performances by Bowmand and McKee amongst others.

Sadly... Tandon's acting in a key character was flat and emotionless yet worse still Nina Toussaint-White 's portrayal of the DS Louise Rayburn was irritating, sporadic, ill conceived and just plain wrong. Toussaint-White can obvioulsy act but her attempts at playing the ridiculous character of Rayburn just didn't belong and detracted from the key scenes constantly.

The achilles heel of this production is clear for anyone... If you maker a thriller based upon actual realities and roles within society, or in this case specifically central government and law enforcement, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not turn it into a ridiculous soap style twist and turn fiasco more akin to a sci-fi production. If watching a sci-fi or supernatural thriller you expect to see the unbelievable, but a thriller set today in actual positions within actual agencies should at the very least has some semblance of realism. Bodyguard sadly is lost to its own laughable plot backfires, shamefully flawed scenes of real life scenario's, and its utter utter patronising execution of police and security service protocols.

In one late scene viewers will be frustrated to distraction by poor scripting in a key scene that will leave the common man, or woman, scratching their heads thinking why, why, WHY(?!) ruin this potetnially fantastic thriller with juvenile errors of judgement throughout. Did the production company or writer actual seek advie from professionals on anything? I think not. Call me and i would do the job for free so that a serious politcially based thriller can be just that and celebrated for its factual accuraciesas well as suspence.

Pfft...