The Last Enemy
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Stephen Ezard is a reclusive, brilliant mathematician who returns home to England to attend his brother Michael's funeral. Michael was an aid worker killed by a landmine in Afghanistan. After years of working in near-isolation in China, Stephen struggles to reconcile his carefully controlled world with
… More »Stephen Ezard is a reclusive, brilliant mathematician who returns home to England to attend his brother Michael's funeral. Michael was an aid worker killed by a landmine in Afghanistan. After years of working in near-isolation in China, Stephen struggles to reconcile his carefully controlled world with a brother he did not know, in a police-state London he does not recognize. He finds himself falling in love with his brother's widow and becoming the public face on a government super-database and find himself part of a program that has the ability to watch and record the actions and movements of every individual.
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Originally broadcast on Masterpiece Theatre in 2008
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Add a CommentA very good British mini-series, part of "Masterpiece Contemporary(Theatre)". Set in the near future, a brother returns to England and gets involved in a gov't plan to introduce a universal ID card but turns out to be much more subversive than that. There are large echoes of 1984 and "big brother". Good plot, good action, good acting and a solid story.
If you ever thought you'd enjoy a kinda slow-paced, totalitarian-themed soap opera set in Britain's near future, this is the series for you!
Gripping, entertaining, intelligent. The final plot twist left me slightly in the dark; I can guess at the motivation behind the final "extermination", but I'm not certain that I have it right. Despite my mild frustration on this score, I'd definitely recommend the series. If you weren't paranoid before about the clash between state security imperatives and individual privacy rights, you will be after you've taken in this version of a brave new world. Some suspension of disbelief may be required with respect to the improbably gifted mathematician.