4 episodes of
Alex Rider. I'm hooked. Anthony Horowitz's teen spy novels have got a TV series avatar. Not top notch but slick production, average story line, definitely interesting enough to watch. I did not read the books - so cant compare it to anything!
Story: When Alex Rider learns that his uncle Ian has been killed in the line of duty as a British spy - and not in a car accident like he's been told - everything changes for this otherwise normal teen. He is approached by Alan Blunt, head of a shadowy offshoot of MI6 known as The Department, who reveals that Alex has been unknowingly trained since childhood for the dangerous world of espionage. Pressured to help investigate his uncle's death - and how it connects to the assassination of two high-profile billionaires - Alex reluctantly assumes a new identity and goes undercover in a remote boarding school called Point Blanc. Isolated far above the snowline in the French Alps, Point Blanc claims to set the troubled teenage children of the ultra-rich back onto the right track. But as he digs deeper, Alex discovers that the students are in fact the subjects of a disturbing plan by the mysterious Doctor Greif - a plan which he will have to risk his life to stop.
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Enjoy.
What could have been tautly told in just about 6 episodes is dragging on with needless drama. Endless lying/obfuscating between family members seems to be the norm. The 9 year old mouthing adult dialogues grates - so does her constant "I am a journalist!"
