Stuart Davies The episodes are well acted and the tension is built to a usually satisfying climax in each case... however the last episode in the series is simply too predictable and unlikely to happen, it becomes obvious and somewhat comical to the extent I found myself cheering as each ridiculous plot artefact unfolded... A fortress building without a contingency for occupants in case of fire, or bomb, in the building... An agent that takes a laptop from the IRA and it doesn't occur to him that it might be booby-trapped? What sort of an idiot would do that? A security system so well designed it is disabled with a bit of chocolate fondant? What utter nonsense. The script writer needs a slap if this is their excuse for a good piece of work.. shame on them.

rlandmann Spooks depicts the activities of MI5 agents protecting the UK from various threats to the country's internal security. The episodes I tried also mixed in a storyline presenting the personal life of the director of the agents depicted. This seemed like an awkward blend, and one that just didn't work for me. I wondered whom the show was trying to please.The counter-intelligence plots are satisfying enough, but the stories seemed too neat, too quickly wrapped up. I've not yet been convinced of the season-long or series-long story arcs that are fashionable these days. Spooks, however, made me wonder whether such a format would work better for the stories they are telling.There are moments of graphic, horrific violence here, but I cared so little about the characters that even this lacked any serious emotional punch. "Ewww" is a pretty cheap reaction to set up; but if you're not engaged with the characters, it's meaningless and quickly over.So, definitely not my thing. If not for the weird inclusion of soap opera elements, I could recommend it to folks who like spy thrillers, but on the basis of what I saw, I won't be recommending this to anybody.

xhidden99 I'm through S6. S5 and S6 could pass for Iranian propaganda. Is it? I have to wonder because in this world of spies and counter spies the only good pure and angelic people on the planet are the Iranians. Their motives are pure, they're always the victims and they're always victorious against the Satanic and dastardly forces of the evil Jew/Zionist/American/Crusader/Globalist machine. The only thing that stops the peaceful peace loving Persians of peace from being stomped out of existence is the well meaning if somewhat incompetent bumbling of MI-5. And of course the only terrorists on the planet are Israelis. No one else.Other than that, what started out as interesting and shocking with the sudden death or disappearance of key characters has sort of degenerated into random turnover. Harry's team is almost always shrinking and taking on new and inexperienced members which leaves the few older hands still alive to shoulder the entire workload of every episode.I'll likely watch it to the bitter end but if it descends into standard British far left genteel antisemitism perhaps not. And if they don't abate the churn of all the characters, it won't be all that interesting to follow.Also - can someone explain to me why the authentication scheme for the message boards is both broken (never authenticates) AND, it's the most complex thing I've ever seen for a board that doesn't sell goods and services. Seriously? Password, email, phone number, and a credit card? And the SMS part has NEVER worked? One would imagine that since IMDb is owned by Amazon they'd make it at least as usable AS Amazon. What next? Blood and urine samples? An FBI background check?

ccollins1982 good if not unrealistic in some aspects are mi5 officers armed was under the impressions there supposed to be more invisible and unarmed and un able to arrest anyone lol but the last series was absolute rubbish was hard to stay interested .....im British but feel that at times it seems so anti American its hard to believe it gets put on TV in the USA....and the Russians seem to always be out manoeuvring them ...as irritating as it may be at times its a shame its being cancelled and as usual its been cancelled without a replacement in place maybe they should re brand it and set it in the cold war could be more interesting......it was more interesting when there was one story line per episode rather than dragging a main story line out over the whole series and the constant changing of the main character is irritating i find my self losing track of some of them not to mention how many times they change the home secretary its like 7 in 10 years ......its good but flawed in some aspects sometimes u just have to put your brain to sleep and watch personally id rather watch the first few series and not bother with the last 2 and the ending was a bit disappointing