Come for the ridiculous plot, but stay for the suspenseful set pieces.
The performances are good and I was especially impressed by Nina Toussaint-White, who always found ways to add depth to her rather stock character, but the plotting is murky and has a real fondness for cliches. And, gosh, but there are a lot of plot holes. In the last episode, the hunky but unreliable hero mutters, “Only one person in this conspiracy knew about my children.” DAVID! LITERALLY EVERYBODY IN THE CONSPIRACY KNEW ABOUT YOUR CHILDREN. It’s not like they were a secret. But that’s all the justification a story like this one needs for a random character to suddenly give an evil chuckle and explain their sinister motivation to the police. It’s pretty dumb.
Still, even as I became increasingly aware that The Bodyguard wasn’t as smart as it wanted me to think it was, every episode succeeded in thrilling me at least once with some solid suspense.
I’m a sucker for bullshit like that and so The Bodyguard gets a cautious recommendation.
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