![]() In upcoming episodes we will follow Alex deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole that is the school and its ominous teachers. How Blunt achieves this and how Alex makes the game his own is the fun and engagement of the first episode. Blunt wants to use Alex as his recruit, giving him a false identity. The only way to find out for sure is to place someone at the school. He suspects that some of the boarders are being used as lures to target their despised but fabulously wealthy and important parents. ![]() ![]() Alan Blunt, the head of the agency, is hot on the trail of a conspiracy that involves a fancy Swiss boarding school for troubled rich kids, Point Blanc. Otto Farant as Alex Rider in “Alex Rider.” Photo courtesy of Amazon Prime.Īlex surrenders, but on what he thinks are his own terms. They call out social services to take him away and bring in Immigration to arrest his caretaker on false visa charges. Alex goes to work clandestinely and gets close enough that the British Spy Service plays hardball with him to cease and desist. He is devasted not just because of his uncle’s sudden death but also because of the deception. He begins to do the math and concludes that this was a nefarious act. Alex is able to retrace his uncle’s tracks and discovers the warehouse where the assassination took place. And this is where Alex springs into action because he knows for a fact that his uncle would never ever exceed the speed limit. The officers who have come to the house to break the news to him, explain that his uncle was killed in a crash because he was going too fast. Ian was a spy and was betrayed by his associate who set him up for the murder.īut Alex isn’t buying any of it. His death is covered up as a traffic accident by the British Secret Service. Too late, Ian understands that he is to be dispatched. This becomes apparent when we see that his “emergency” meeting is with a colleague and a foreign adversary. But Ian has been called out on a bank emergency, leaving Alex the opportunity to escape to the party with Tom who has found the address by other means.īut Ian is not who he appears to be. Uncle Ian, who works at a bank, is a stickler and has grounded Alex for the near future, which may as well be forever. Ian has been raising Alex ever since both of his parents were killed in a car accident. When Alex tries to break into his classroom to retrieve Tom’s confiscated cell phone, one with the address of a party above their place in the school hierarchy, he’s caught and sent home to his disciplinarian Uncle Ian. ![]() Like his novels, the cast of “Alex Rider” is almost entirely white.Īlex is a normal British teen with a clueless and hormonal best friend Tom, prone to typical minor scrapes with authority. Besides the wonderful “Foyle’s War” television series, the Alex Rider books and some recent James Bond novels, he is also well-known for having stated that he thought Idris Elba was too “street” to play James Bond. Creator Guy Burt has fashioned a cohesive and smart mystery/thriller adapted from the popular book series of the same name by Anthony Horowitz, prolific fiction and television writer. “Alex Rider,” Amazon’s new series aimed primarily at a YA audience, is a fast-paced, character-driven spy drama. Andrew Buchan as Uncle Ian, Otto Farrant as Alex Rider, and Ronke Adekoluejo as Jack Starbright in “Alex Rider.” Photo courtesy of Amazon Prime.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |