Bodyguard

PS David Budd is a police officer and former soldier who still lives with trauma from war in Afghanistan. He is assigned to guard Julia Montague, a tough Conservative Home Secretary whose hard security policies he hates. Over six episodes, terror threats, a secret affair, and a fight between the Met and MI5 keep him unsure who to trust. A plan for wider state surveillance under a law like RIPA-18 sits at the center of the plot. The story builds toward a violent political thriller ending where loyalty and truth stay hard to pin down.

On screen, several senior power roles go to women, including the Home Secretary and top police chiefs, in a way some viewers found heavy. The script talks about security powers, civil liberties, and anger over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Those debates stay about policy and duty, not identity lectures or diversity slogans. Female leaders appear as part of the job, not as a campaign about empowerment. The real engines of the story are PTSD, conspiracy, and distrust of politicians and spy agencies, not race or gender ideology as the main point.