I’m enjoying ER and the high production values, but my God, I wish they’d spent a bit more time on making the story believable - especially the Bianca bits.
She’s like Martin Platt in Corrie - because he was a nurse, every time any character went to hospital, there he was, regardless of the department.
Up to now, Bianca is a firearms expert (although watching with ex-armed responder DH throws that into question), who also does her own grunt work (watching CCTV, ringing around every bag retailer in the UK, etc), who also carries out raids and negotiates (badly) with informants.
Hasn't MI6 got the money for an actual team? And if they haven’t, why entrust the whole operation to someone who has ‘Central Command’ in her phone contacts, and leaves said phone on the dinner table for her kid to read?
Then there’s the home life nonsense. Bianca is meant to be a ruthless operative who will hold a mother’s dead child as leverage, yet she stresses about missing parents’ evenings and moussaka? She wouldn’t give a fuck. I wanted her to point out to her family that she works for fucking MI6 and that’s quite a big deal, so they could back off?
(Also, as an aside, I don’t know a single teenager that would be upset that their mum wasn’t going to parents’ evening. Most would actively rejoice).
Apart from all that, and the fact that in episode 2 Eddie Redmayne inexplicably disguised himself as Catherine Tate’s character Derek (“How very dare you?”) I like it 😀