Product: The Sandbaggers Collection Set 1
Rating: 5.0
Where Do I Start?
I will be ever grateful to the friend who turned me on to The Sandbaggers.Roy Marsden delivers one of the best acting performances I've ever seen in any medium. His classically tragic Neil Burnside is so nuanced, he defies ultimate analysis while still convincing the audience of authenticity of character. All the other regular actors are equally good, even if their characters aren't quite as complex (though all are definitely 3-dimensional).But the real star of The Sandbaggers is Ian MacIntosh's superlative writing. Tight, yet textured, witty, yet never frivilous, the Sandbaggers scripts are rumored to have been about four times as thick as that for a typical television hour. Though the "action" of the series almost entirely consists of conversations behind desks, at restaraunt tables or over telephone lines, MacIntosh never fails to astonish the audience with his brilliance and insight.For the thinking veiwer, I cannot recommend The Sandbaggers highly enough. And although it brutally rips the romance of espionage mythos to shreds, it gives us something oh-so-much better in return: It gives us a mirror in which we may or may not care to meet ourselves.