Bombs, boiling oil and Benedict Cumberbatch ' I'm surviving lockdown by rewatching Spooks

So far there's been an embassy hijack, far-Right plots to bring down the government, and a bomb in a laptop. And that's before we talk about the infamous vat of boiling oil. These are not the most obvious events in which to find solace when faced with current realities, but eight hours into rewatching Spooks ' all 10 series are now available on iPlayer ' I appear to have discovered an unexpected way of dampening the ambient coronavirus anxiety.Even as I hum the theme tune I know it's weird. Who deals with a pandemic lockdown by mainlining a BBC1 drama from 2002' Still less one that takes itself so ridiculously seriously and has an episode about germ warfare in the capital halfway through the second series.
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