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What fresh new hell can be introduced in this episode of COBRA? So far, Robert Sutherland's Britain has lost a chunk of Kent in an explosion/tsunami; there's been a significant security hack (Ruin Britannia). A Russian oligarch has been assassinated, and there's the
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Episode 2 of COBRA Season 2 opens with the aftermath of the explosion at sea, which has caused immense amounts of damage, extensive flooding, and hundreds of deaths, including that of the local Member of Parliament, with many more missing. The only communication is by mobile phone, straining the system.
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It's been almost two years since we were last enthralled, confused, and annoyed by Sky TV's COBRA, written by Ben Richards and directed by Mo Ali and Sallie Aprahamian. The term "COBRA" has the same relevance to herpetology as Monty Python's Flying
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The British TV series COBRA was one of those rare shows that benefitted from the 2020 shutdowns and lockdowns. Though the first season originally ran on Sky One in the weeks before the March pandemic announcement, the sense of impending apocalyptic doom out of human control fit the national mood
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Propulsive political thriller COBRA will return for a second season on PBS this summer, titled COBRA: Cyberwar. The first season of the series, which stars Robert Carlyle (Once Upon a Time) as British Prime Minister Robert Sutherland, was a surprise hit on both sides of the pond, thanks to its
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Disney+ recently made a radical adjustment to its programming standards in the U.S., putting serious parental controls in for the first time. Now a second radical change is coming to the streaming service, in the form of British programming mainstream audiences might actually want to watch, starting with a
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Season 2 of the deliciously bonkers political thriller COBRA won't make its way to PBS until a still-to-be-announced later date in 2022, but PBS Passport members can get an early look at the series' highly anticipated return right now. All eight episodes of the second season are
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Good news for COBRA fans - the political thriller will indeed return for a second season, but what that will look like is really anyone's guess, particularly after the bonkers events of Season 1. The Season 2 renewal was announced earlier this year. The drama, which follows the
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The trouble with this final episode of COBRA is that we know a second season is in the works, so we expect a finale that both wraps up issues and raises new questions. But this is COBRA, so... not so much. As usual, the tension and stakes in this particular
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As COBRA continues, the net seems to be closing around the Sutherlands. This episode opens with Rachel calmly lying through her teeth to the police; as she tells Robert after, it’s family first, possibly the only sentiment they have in common with People’s Justice leader Scott Minett. Worse,
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Things just aren’t going well for Robert Sutherland in COBRA. In the Red Zone, things are falling apart, with inadequate services, looting, and an ominous consolidation of local powers under the name of People’s Justice, led by the charismatic Scott Minett (Charlie Carrick). Even the reporter covering the
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In this episode of COBRA, the focus turns on Britain’s Red Zone: Northumberland, which is currently without power and awaiting the arrival of a new transformer. Major cities (Newcastle, Sunderland) are uninhabitable. At the university, which was invaded by escapees from the Immigrant Holding facility, a shocked young woman