I always thought Matthew Macfadyen was akin to a large plank of wood, and was the worst actor in the series. Personally, I think Spooks has—for its entire run—been much of a muchness: fun silliness spy jakes masquerading as 'serious' drama. It's pretty formulaic, though, and I think I've been surprised very few times (Helen Flynn's 'incident' excepted, obv.), and the way characters are replaced is absurd. "Oh, here's a new ethnic character!" (Cue: dead existing ethnic character.) "Oh, here's a new prominent female!" (Cue: dead/written out existing prominent female character.)
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