Undercover, underwhelmed

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Undercover, underwhelmed

May 16, 2016 - 10:07
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"There’s no way back for us” the multi-tasking Maya tells her husband Nick in the ridiculous finale of Undercover.

Undercover

Submitted by walterwhite on Sun, 15/05/2016 - 22:49 

By Walter White  

"There’s no way back for us” the multi-tasking Maya tells her husband Nick in the ridiculous finale of Undercover.

 Is that a promise? Let’s hope so. By the time Maya had made the trans-Atlantic dash on the red-eye back to her day job as Britain’s Director of Public Prosecutions – fresh from wowing the US Supreme Court wearing her other hat defending an innocent ( natch) black killer on Death Row --- this viewer’s patience had worn as thin as Nick’s litany of lies.

 Undercover is the BBC at its achingly, politically-correct worst. No shades of grey here, only black -worthy, upstanding, burning with integrity, and white --- corrupt, homicidal, immoral. This was not so much a TV series than a long, student polemic on the iniquities of the White Establishment.
Guilty, M’Lud, of being a part of the nasty race.

 But Peter Moffatt’s skewed series is at least timely, coming as the Government demands the BBC ‘address diversity issues’ and focus more on ‘under-served black, Asian and minority ethnic viewers’ as a reward for retaining the licence fee. Sophie Okonedo and Adrian Lester proved as Undercover’s leading characters that plenty of room is being made at the top for black actors. Now all they can ask for is a balanced script which doesn’t insult our intelligence.

 "Justice: I'll never stop pursuing it," declares impassioned Maya. That's just how they speak over breakfast in London's middle-class enclaves.

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Hazeleyes's picture

I feel that Undercover started well, even though the story was not exactly understandable, jumping from one year to present time, made you miss certain parts of the story, hard to follow, and not mch meaning as to why Rudie was In prison on death row for a totally different murder to the one back in England. It felt like two different stories but did not join up at the end, like a lost jigsaw puzzle

The ending was dreadful could not follow story line, jumping back and forth with no reasoning we still were none the wiser by the end, very disappointing, good acting but could have been more together as a story

Tootie's picture

I'm not sure what was the worst thing about this series; the messy plot, the appalling script, the wooden performance from Adrian Lester or the spectacularly nonsensical ending.

It was almost in the realms of 'and then I woke up'. I continued to watch believing it had to redeem itself and we would be treated to a thrilling twist. Nope.

Given the level of excellent and gripping series being broadcast, I'm astounded Undercover got off the cutting room floor.
Please, no series two.