Oh Dear...'Strike Back - Vengeance' (SKY One) is a Chris Ryan SAS/Special Forces embarrassment of a programme that shows just how far Sky still have to go to make consistently decent stuff. Firstly, the dialogue, such as it is, is appalling and grossly insulting to the audience's intelligence; in one of the episodes, one of the characters asks of another 'Cui Bono?', to which the other cut-out instantly adds, for the benefit of us morons presumably, 'who benefits?'. 'Strike Back' operates in a universe where the only news channel on in the background is 'Sky News', where no cliche is left unused and where the explosions, shootings and fist fights add to the tedium of the proceedings. This isn't even switch the brain off TV, it made 'thetvreviewguy' want to switch the set off. The alpha male and female cast do their best with the ludicrous script and plot and Charles Dance must have been offered a large wodge of cash to appear in such nonsense. Of course there's a 'Ronseal' element to productions like this; no-one's expecting great innovation, wit or creativity and this won't disappoint. At least a Chris Ryan book will get you from one airport to another; 'Strike Back' just has 'thetvreviewguy' asking why they bothered. Watch this for a master class in bad drama and how not to write. Mission Fail.
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