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It's obvious that, like any Hollywood production that puts military hardware on screen, Eye in the Sky's script was not just vetted by the Pentagon's specialist media unit but co-written with it. That is plain from the themes and characters. If you love the idea that the USA uses drones to kill people without the remotest checks or accountability, you'll adore this piece of nonsense. It creates the sick pretence that murdering is wise and not murdering is a form of propaganda. The world would be a better place without this film.

I didn't get more than part way into the first episode. I wonder if the script was vetted by the Royal Navy? Given the heavy use of RN property, that seems likely, which bodes ill for the realism of the plot.

Would an anti-nuclear campaigner lie in the road on a 60mph road in order to make an unknown driver (she hopes) stop so she can lecture the driver on her cause? I doubt it. Then, when the campaigner has somehow evaded security to wander the base's staff quarters - again, no peace campaigner would do this, mainly on ethical grounds - and is arrested, the subsequent police interview violates the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984. The interview room is equipped with a cassette recorder, even though such devices stopped being used in the early 2000s. Interviews are never conducted by a single officer as here; the recording device's use is mandatory, yet here it is ignored. The suspect campaigner states she has been previously arrested yet, strangely, turns down the provision of a solicitor.

I left it here. I suggest you do, too.