MI5- Not 9 to 5

I have a new post American Idol obsession. It's every Thursday night on Hallmark Channel. That's right folks, Miss Gan's current (non-shoe related) obsession is a TV series called Spooks. It stars Matthew McFayden and a lot of other British actors whose names I can't remember.

The plots are always intelligent, the conversation always witty and the characters people that you really would admire. One of the main characters, Tom (played by Matthew Mcfayden; Mr Darcy in the Kiera Knightly Pride and Predjudice) is a senior officer at MI5. He's not particularly goodlooking, but the character has so much grit, compassion and strength that would leave me and my aunt (who'd watch with me) ooohhhiing and aahhhingg...

Thing is, Tom's girlfriends are all nincompoops!

He's this guy, brilliantly smart, macho-er than Brad Pitt, big big heart and committed to a cause bigger than himself. Yet, his girlfriends would always make him choose between his spy job or her (at least up until the episodes they show in Malaysia) or demand for his time while he's busy foiling a terrorist attack on the parliment.

I don't get it!

How can you not love a man who can have so much compassion and strenght for a cause bigger than himself? How on earth can you love a man, but not the whole of him? How???


I reckon I'd be a very good spy girlfriend.