Only admit that the first season is "Counterattack"

Guy 2022-02-07 14:59:25

The tradition of British drama, the spirit of reflection. Six episodes of three stories, the locations are: Iraq; Zimbabwe; Afghanistan, Pakistan.

The core of the story is still the crimes committed by both sides of the war, the painful killings, there is no perfect hero in the play, and everyone is a patient of "post-traumatic sequelae of war".

There is no heroine, only one male protagonist; and the second male lead in each story - the Iraqi boy "Scarface", the African hired assassin, the British hacker who can't figure out his position, is the opposite side. They are basically the same as the male protagonist. First from misunderstanding and then to friendship (some people may see the basic love) routine, but it is very touching, at least I got the sympathy of the audience like me.

In the Iraqi part, the sentence "I lay my life for your sake" is very impressive, and the enemy may be more loyal than his comrades. However, the real "villain" or "comrade-in-arms" who relayed this sentence finally returned life to life. The last dialogue between the two was so wonderful. What is more daunting than the enemy's bullets is the criticism of one's own people, being abandoned and despised. This is not something that can be easily tolerated, so when the "villain" dies, I also look like a man. The Lord forgave him as well.


If you pay attention, in the first story, it is repeatedly mentioned that the British and American coalition forces killed hundreds of thousands of people in Iraq. The TV screen accompanied by Bush's face is a report that no "weapons of mass destruction" were found. This revealed that The nonsense of war. The result is racial hatred and the sacrifice of innocents. For example, the British female journalist was kidnapped by Iraqi opposition militants. And the "political dignitaries" rescued by the male protagonist and his partner - that rescue operation caused the double tragedy of the male protagonist's career and life. When the male protagonist was abandoned by the army and unemployed, he refused to provide him with a job Dignified work.

In the second story, before the male protagonist sets off to rescue the assassin in Zimbabwe, there is a scene where the male protagonist is studying the information of the prison. The prison was originally built by the British during the colonial era, and there is a photo in the information of a British The guy proudly stood next to a local who was tied to a torture device and "take a group photo"; the male protagonist was later treated in the same way by the local police after he went to prison himself.

The third story, back to the starting point, who betrayed who, who is the culprit in the end, "the enemy is difficult to distinguish", the real enemy is difficult to distinguish. At the end, the British savagely exposed their scars, and may have deliberately hurt the Americans severely, and the "alliance" relationship between the two countries is also a bit of irony. So the Americans couldn't take it anymore, and the sugar-coated shells took over the show in an all-round way. As a result, the second, third, and fourth seasons were released. The male protagonist of the first season was also cheated, and the American Boy was replaced. Continue the boring plot, OK, British guy, I want you to have an idea, Americans have money and can buy everything.

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  • Emery 2022-03-27 09:01:21

    I didn't want to see war themes. But I've been really hungry for British dramas lately. The plot is tense, but not so desperate. RA is so handsome

  • Maribel 2022-03-15 09:01:11

    Call of Duty theatrical version, really powerful. My hands are so itchy~