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I fell off MI-5 after S3 (after Oyelowo, McFadden, and Hawes left) but it was very good when I watched it. Definitely had thriller aspects to the plots and some action, but on a BBC budget so not as wild as 24 or Alias (both on at that time too).

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Yeah, I dropped off, too, though a little later. I keep telling myself I'll go back.

I hated hated hated "24" (yeah, you get to shoot your boss if you think he's lying to you) and sometimes it does falls in to similar traps.

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I agree! I enjoyed the first season of 24 just for being a weird, unique new storytelling device but I wasn't into cheap soap opera tropes like temporary amnesia and anyone can be a mole, so didn't stick with it. Mandy the naked assassin should have been a tell.

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