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The series tells the story of a naive young politician living with a catastrophic path in London. A naive young politician is suspected when his aid and lover are killed in a suspicious accident, when things turn upside down. Now, a political investigative journalist friend and his team are revealing a government conspiracy that may have completely changed the course of the case.
You may as well try and make heroes of a bunch of City lawyers than make a journalist the moral centre of a drama... It shouldn't be good, really. Except, it is. In fact, it's bloody magic.
This is television at its best, taking full advantage of its length without introducing a speck of fat... and offering a vision of the truth as an endless unfolding of character and power.
There's Paul Abbott's slick script, adroitly linking the mysterious, seemingly random murders of a purse snatcher and a political researcher... And there's David Yates' adrenalized direction.
State of Play spirals so rapidly and with such fascinating writing and acting that episodes conclude in a frustrating rush, the sure sign you're onto something uncommonly good.
The real star of the show in the newsroom is Nighy, as newsroom editor Cameron Foster. This role feels tailor made for Nighy's talents, requiring smarts, sarcasm, and just a little bit of oil.
The characters all have a pungent psychological edge. Abbott has a knack of finding what is unexpectedly interesting in real people's lives and putting it into his scripts.
It is at once harrowing and funny and involves friendship and betrayal, love and adultery, government conspiracies and personal jealousy and the overlapping business of the police and the press.