Product: The Sandbaggers Collection Set 1
Rating: 5.0
Superb drama series...
In the very first episode, Operations Director Neil Burnside (Roy Marsden) tells a neophyte in the spy game ... if you want James Bond, go to your library. That's pretty much the show's mission statement.Instead of over-the-top, high-tech adventures, The Sandbaggers offers a real-world view of the espionage world. There are no Q-gadgets here. Instead, Burnside has to fight numerous budgetary restraints -- like justifying why his agents need to fly into the field well-rested on a good quality flight. Every action has to be planned, cleared, etc.The heart of the series is not in adventures, but in mission planning, characters, and the moral ambiguity.The first episode that truly grabbed me was "Special Relationship" with its very disturbing ending.