Review: Channel 4's new drama The Undeclared War sees Simon Pegg star in the Jet Set Willy of cyber-thrillers

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Review: Channel 4's new drama The Undeclared War sees Simon Pegg star in the Jet Set Willy of cyber-thrillers
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The biggest problem cyber-thrillers like The Undeclared War (Channel 4, Thurs, 9pm) have to overcome is that watching pasty-faced IT nerds sitting bathed in the glow of a screen, clacking on keyboards, is not particularly thrilling.

The characters are gossamer-thin ciphers, differentiated by wearing different types of plaid shirt, while none seem to have any kind of personality.

And at no point do you get a real hint of the attack in the real world, beyond a screen showing flight delays atRupert Whittaker, the co-founder of the Terrence Higgins Trust, was featured in the powerful BBC2 documentary Aids: The Unheard Tapes A good cast, including Simon Pegg, Adrian Lester and Ed Stoppard, is wasted and a drama which could have been a sweaty, paranoid journey into a 21st century nightmare turns into something more like Jet Set WIlly.was a powerful retelling of the coming of the Aids epidemic and the effects it had – and continues to have – on the country’s gay community.

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