Genre: Political drama
Created by Ben Richards
Written by Ben Richards
Starring: Robert Carlyle, Victoria Hamilton, Richard Dormer, Marsha Thomason, Lucy Cohu&Lisa Palfrey.
Executive producers:Charlie Pattinson, Willow Grylls, Elaine Pyke, Ben Richards
Producer: Joe Donaldson
Editor: Matt Sandford
Production companies: New Pictures, Sky Studios
Network: Sky Max
Plot: Robert Sutherland and Anna Marshall return to COBRA to devise a strategy against members of the environmental protest group ‘Planet Resistance’ who are occupying a tunnel to disrupt the construction of the Metro Ultraline fast-speed railway network.
Series 3 of Cobra was Very Good.
Pros: This was the most intense & emotional series of the show so far. Robert Carlyle showed his intense and emotional acting so much this series. It does a great job of keeping me engaged and I’m proud to say I binge watched the full series today.
Cons: My only problem was the final moments of the last episode.
Casts & Characters:
Main:
- Robert Carlyle as Robert Sutherland, the Prime Minister and Leader of the Conservative Party
- Victoria Hamilton as Anna Marshall, the Downing Street Chief of Staff and a former war correspondent
- David Haig as Archie Glover-Morgan, a Conservative politician and the Home Secretary. He is reluctantly appointed Foreign Secretary by Sutherland in series 2.
- Richard Dormer as Fraser Walker, the Director of the Civil Contingencies Secretariat
- Lucy Cohu as Rachel Sutherland, a lawyer and wife of Robert Sutherland
- Edward Bennett as Peter Mott, an adviser who served as the Downing Street Press Secretary
- Marsha Thomason as Francine Bridge, a former Labour Party MP who briefly worked for Sutherland
- Lisa Palfrey as Eleanor James, Head of the Joint Intelligence Committee
Supporting:
- Charlie Carrick as Scott Minett, a former soldier and leader of the People’s Justice Movement
- Richard Pepple as Joseph Obasi (series 2–3), the new Home Secretary and Glover-Morgan’s successor
- Alexa Davies as Audrey Hemmings (series 2–3), a Civil Contingencies Secretariat officer
- Andrew Buchan as Chris Edwards (series 2–3), the Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition
- Gregg Chilingirian as Nate Stevens (series 3)
- Jane Horrocks as Victoria Dalton (series 3)
- Ben Crompton as Henry Wicks (series 3)
- Anthony Flanagan as Dan Goddard (series 3)
- Emily Fairn as Polly Wright (series 3)
- Cavan Clerkin as Commander Neil Millar
- Geoffrey McGivern as Gerald Kendrick (series 3)
- Rina Mahoney as Zelda Gere (series 3)
- Yasmin Al-Khudhairi as Princess Yadira (series 3)
- Khalid Laith as Crown Prince Samir (series 3)
I recommend watching all of the previous seasons before watching this one.
Rating: 9 out of 10 Stars
Ryan Balkwill:
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