The BBC has a Jack Bauer on its hands with David Budd, a maverick hero that multiple seasons could be built around, as he foils a variety of terror plots and provides protection to more and more powerful “principals”.
In Sunday night’s Bodyguard finale, the plot to assassinate Julia Montague was unveiled and the crooked chief superintendent was outed.
Bodyguard creator Jed Mercurio has said that he would “absolutely” do a second series, but has worries over whether he’ll get one.
It tied up the season’s narrative arc neatly, but it felt like only a starting point.