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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good Saturday Night Fare,
By Tom (Durham) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Bugs: Complete Series 2 [DVD] (DVD)
BUGS was a programme that appeared on BBC One on Saturday evenings in the mid 1990s. It focused on three friends, Ed, Ros and Beckett; and their adventures while working together as a freelance surveillance team.Needless to say their work managed to put them in dangerous situations, and the episodes all finished with a nail biting conclusion. These programmes, while looking a little dated today ("what a gadget that shows you using 'satellites' exactly where we are on the earth?!" - yes that is a GPS tracker!), the quality of programme is excellent. The effects and stunts, and well as a lot of location shooting make the programme very watchable, and the 50 minute time slot allows you time to get into the story, without it dragging. Particular excellent in this series is the last episode 'Cage of Satan', which involves a possibly world destroying artifical intelligence virus called Cyberaxe! All in all an excellent set of 10 episodes, from a series that would be good to see back on TV.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Darker, more mysterious and grander,
This review is from: Bugs: Complete Series 2 [DVD] (DVD)
One of the assets of Bugs series One was the strength of its stand-alonestories, and while this lacked any sort of coherent structure to theseries, barring the first two, it was none-the-less enjoyable offering youbig bang for your buck and quality entertainment.Series 2 is a little different, and most of the stories are connected,however there are some great standalone episodes, which ably carry offsome character development as well allowing for a tension-relievingepisode just to break off the darkness from the bad guy. And, as bad guys go, this guy is ruthless and a fantastic villain andthough his plot climaxes in an unbelievable way (cyberax) it is a chillinglook into the future and the possibilities of what could happen were thereto be as the human quest for self-improving AI goes on. He verges on annear perfect villain, killing anyone who stands in his way, bar our heroeswhich he always seems to need to and end- whether in an attempt to stopthe other half of the team or as part of his grand design. Thematically still very topical but overall just great entertainment, thisis a series not to be missed if you enjoyed the first, despite some extracheesy lines. The only thing that could subtract from this is a bit of a lack ofcommentaries, and biographies of characters doesn’t really cover what manypeople have come to expect from special features. However, for my moneythe box set rates as a 5 star buy because of the strength of the show andnostalgia it invoked. In essence it is just a thoroughly enjoyable series full of explosions,ruthless villains and top lines- it may lack some of the grittiness ofsay, spooks, but more than makes up for it with a sheer sense of fun, andtruly makes it a watchable series again and again.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Blasting off to the Planet Cheese!,
This review is from: Bugs: Complete Series 2 [DVD] (DVD)
You can run a check list as you watch Season 2 episodes:1) Pre-credits explosion. Season 2 however is the Bugs series that turns the status quo on it's head as the stories veer into a far more darker territory than has been seen in Series 1. Whilst this allows for some great episodes, Whirling Dervish and The Bureau of Weapons it also means that occasionally an episode seems silly and out of place in this series, Newton's Run appears to be a left over episode from the previous year. A Cage for Satan is the most disappointing episode as it seems to make no sense at all but top marks for the "Baa" comment by the villain which makes no sense unless you've seen T.B.O.W. Overall it's darker than before but still retains the cheese factor, scientific improbabilities abound (Ed flies the Space Shuttle being the prime example!) and the plots are full of holes and seem a bit out dated in today's world but by heck it's about 8 hours of entertainment. The best episodes are Whirling Dervish and The Bureau of Weapons whilst ...What Comes Down is below par and Bugged Wheat is my least favourite story of the entire first two years.
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