Ongoing Storyline

[Nia M]

I’m in two minds about the ongoing storyline idea introduced in this series. On the one hand, all the episodes are connected by a common thread running through them and the story flows better, but on the other hand I miss the smaller storylines that came with the individual episodes. Also, I’m not so keen on how the blame tends to be pinned on one or two culprits for the whole series (Iran and Yalta here,

Series 7 Spoiler: show

the Russians

in Series 7 and

Series 8 Spoiler: show

Nightingale, and the hints of a Chinese connection

in Series 8.