"The Last Enemy" (2008) TV mini-series

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Seasons:

1

Release Date:

17 February 2008 (UK)

Genre:

Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

Tomorrow is nearer than you think...

Plot:

Researcher Dr. Stephen Ezard returns home to the UK after the reported death of his brother Michael Ezard...

Plot Keywords:

TV Mini-Series

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Benedict Cumberbatch	...	Stephen Ezard (5 episodes, 2008)
Anamaria Marinca	...	Yasim Anwar (5 episodes, 2008)
Max Beesley	...	Michael Ezard (5 episodes, 2008)
Robert Carlyle	...	David Russell / ... (5 episodes, 2008)
Eva Birthistle	...	Eleanor Brooke (5 episodes, 2008)
Geraldine James	...	Barbara Turney (5 episodes, 2008)
David Harewood	...	Patrick Nye (5 episodes, 2008)
Alex Caan	...	Haman (5 episodes, 2008)
Christopher Fulford	...	George Gibbon (4 episodes, 2008)
Alina Ioana Serban	...	Nadir (4 episodes, 2008)
Ovidiu Niculescu	...	Bepa (3 episodes, 2008)
San Shella	...	Andrew Wilcox / ... (3 episodes, 2008)
Paul Higgins	...	Professor Lawrence Cooper (3 episodes, 2008)
Emil Hostina	...	Vucevic (3 episodes, 2008)
Rupert Procter	...	Lane (3 episodes, 2008)
David Calder	...	Lord Cawston (3 episodes, 2008)
Inika Leigh Wright	...	Charlotte Nye (3 episodes, 2008)
Tom Fisher	...	Andrew Batz (2 episodes, 2008)
James Lance	...	Bryan Holland (2 episodes, 2008)
Kieran O'Brien	...	Wafa (2 episodes, 2008)
Chipo Chung	...	Lucy Fox (2 episodes, 2008)
Nicholas Sidi	...	Professor John Moreton (2 episodes, 2008)
Mircea Caraman	...	Dark Glasses (2 episodes, 2008)

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Australia:MA

Filming Locations:

Battersea Power Station, Battersea, London, England, UK

Company:

Box TV

Trivia:

The scene in "The Last Enemy" with the inline skates in, was shot next to Battersea Power Station on the 24th of February 2007. Most of the skates taking part were from the London Friday Night Skate.

Someone DARED call it inferior "failed" - surely a BLIND comment

You have to be focused/undisturbed/observant to watch this ( so far, I have viewed episode 1 only at 9pm). Up to par with all the other UK, BBC, PBS British mystery series .. etc. It re-broadcasts here in 2 hrs at 1am. So you can be sure that I will be tuned-in.

Like a good book, a second reading reveals twists, comments and turns of a phrase missed in the first reading. Looking forward to the other episodes (weekly here).

This is masterful, captivating, suspenseful and ladened with detail.

Little text is needed, the actors' expressions convey well the mood and foreboding of the events to come.

This series eclipses the violent/sadistic/illiterate/inane scripts we here are so often subjected to by the US media - British mystery remains unsurpassed; how can it fail ? It dominates.

Enjoy !

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