Ordinarily, I’d be indignant about the fact that there’s only one woman to be seen, but I’m too mad about Sofia Boutella as Eve Mansour, an Algerian-French spy, to care (she’s back in Cairo, where her lipstick, doubtless much envied by our friend Wrangel, can probably be seen from Mars). I’m all in, and do pour me a large gin and it. Usually, I’ve only to see a stag party to run in the other direction, but not in the case of SAS Heroes. But can anyone really resist them? I can’t. The viewer is free to feel appalled by all the strutting around, by the greedy murderousness and the twisted patriotism. Science and Technical Research and Development.Infrastructure Management - Transport, Utilities.Information Services, Statistics, Records, Archives.Information and Communications Technology.HR, Training and Organisational Development.Health - Medical and Nursing Management.Facility / Grounds Management and Maintenance.Set in the Egyptian desert in 1941 as the British army struggles to defend besieged Tobruk from the Germans, its tone is midway between the war comics my brother used to read as a boy (he favoured Battle) and a Duran Duran video – and I mean this as a compliment. The creation of Steven Knight of Peaky Blinders fame, it shares with that series a fondness for mythologising and aphoristic dialogue. We are invited to enjoy ourselves – and, mostly, we do. It wants only to be stylish and entertaining. It has no desire to tick boxes, to be thought-provoking, to present a searing critique of times past. Unlike most BBC dramas, SAS Rogue Heroes comes with not one iota of angst. Mostly, though, I think it has something to do with the way it makes me feel oddly carefree, for all that it’s so full of jeopardy and violence. Admittedly, this may, in part, be because this carnival of macho nonsense is packed with gorgeous young men in aviators. But now I’ve slipped into it, epaulettes and all, I’m amazed to find myself half in love.

Beige is not my colour I was somewhat reluctant to pull on the desert camo. I come a little late to SAS Rogue Heroes.

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