By Any Means

By Any Means

2013
By Any Means
By Any Means

By Any Means

7 | en | Drama

By Any Means follows a clandestine unit living on the edge and playing the criminal elite at their own game, existing in the grey area between the letter of the law and true justice.

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Seasons & Episodes

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EP6  Episode 6
Oct. 27,2013
Episode 6

The team find themselves in a race against time to prevent a deadly new drug targeted at teenagers from flooding the country. The man behind the supply of this drug is one of Britain’s most dangerous criminals, a sociopath with no limits and no conscience… Jack and the gang are faced with their most dangerous task to date and one that will leave more than one life hanging in the balance.

EP5  Episode 5
Oct. 20,2013
Episode 5

When an innocent man is killed in cold blood and the murderer released by MI5 in the interests of national security, it becomes the team’s mission to ensure that the killer doesn’t walk free. In his quest for justice, Jack comes up with a daring plan and breaks a violent criminal out of prison. But could this decision prove to be one of Jack’s biggest mistakes?

EP4  Episode 4
Oct. 13,2013
Episode 4

Jack and the gang resort to desperate measures in an attempt to catch their slippiest suspects to date, a seemingly ordinary middle-class couple who have embezzled millions of pounds from charity.

EP3  Episode 3
Oct. 06,2013
Episode 3

Jack and the gang become embroiled in the intricate world of foreign affairs when a wealthy businessman seeks diplomatic immunity in the Colombian Embassy in London. Philip Granger is responsible for a fire that killed dozens - now Jack and the gang face the impossible challenge of getting him back on British soil without causing an international incident.

EP2  Episode 2
Sep. 29,2013
Episode 2

A young girl is murdered in what is apparently an open and shut case, but Helen is convinced that all is not as it seems and calls on the help of Jack and his team to prove that an innocent man has been set up by a disgruntled former policeman, who will stop at nothing in his quest for vengeance.

EP1  Episode 1
Sep. 22,2013
Episode 1

When an innocent family is terrorised and their father murdered in cold blood, everyone knows that ruthless criminal Nick Mason is behind it. But when Mason, the "Teflon Man", walks free from his trial - the third time in five years he has evaded justice - Helen calls on Jack Quinn and his team for help.

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7 | en | Drama , Crime | More Info
Released: 2013-09-22 | Released Producted By: BBC Drama Productions , Red Planet Pictures Country: United Kingdom Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03bvtk4
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By Any Means follows a clandestine unit living on the edge and playing the criminal elite at their own game, existing in the grey area between the letter of the law and true justice.

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Warren Brown , Shelley Conn , Elliot Knight

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Reviews

Prismark10 From the makers of Hustle which may have inspired Leverage a few years later in America.Now this is a combination of Leverage and Hustle (with many of the same visual tricks used.) Warren Brown plays a kind of a cop whose team takes down criminals and other assorted bad guys in a way the normal law enforcement agencies cannot.Each week a mysterious Gina McKee would hand over an Ipad containing a dossier of the latest target for the gang and each week Warren Brown would take the Ipad and fail to return it!The series will not be returning to the BBC because of low ratings. Where Hustle was sharp, entertaining and had a good team that gelled. This was bland, a bit boring and Warren Brown is no Adrian Lester and the rest of the team were no match for the Hustle gang.Maybe, this series should had waited for a few years whilst our memories of Hustle faded and they could had worked on the format a bit more and some better casting was needed.As it is this was average with little promise, hence no renewal.
Emloulou I think what's frustrating about this series isn't that it's rubbish, it's that it's almost good. And yet really, really isn't. It's a good premise, excellent titles and decent actors. The plot though, oh my giddy aunt, the plot. In every episode there's a moment where I'm thinking, 'Please don't say that line/do that twist', but they always do. They seem to go for the easy option in every episode and have yet to surprise me. It's such a shame. It feels like they use up all their creativity on the problem and then just stick a standard solution on the end, one we've all seen too many times before. The big reveal and the flashbacks that in programmes like 'Hustle' are detailed and intelligent are here predictable and underwhelming. Could still be a good show but it's got a lot of problems to fix. And as for the last line...
ckootstra As other reviewers here I've never written a review for any series. But what I read here made me get behind the keyboard. Clearly all the low voters have never had to endure public or commercial TV in other European countries. This show is part of Britain's BBC heaven. En indeed not every show is entitled to occupy center stage in the programming, but it definitely has the right to get shown. It's different, funny and generally fast paced. The young actors must have had a good time making it, and I certainly have a good time watching it. Yes indeed, sometimes it is somewhat taxing on your intelligence, and I would hope that the writers are less easily satisfied at a next occasion. For instance that fact that in one episode our dream team apparently has never heard of mobile telephone triangulation, only to apply it themselves in the next episode as if they've never done anything else. Please writers, don't do this to us. It puts us off from a show that is otherwise a pleasure to watch when we got nothing better to do, and, as said, many shades better than the skin cringing stuff we see elsewhere on TV screens.
rupertlovibond May contain spoilers.Holy cow. This was truly shocking. So poor was this programme, so self-righteous, pretentious, so, so, oh words don't serve. The worst part is surely the 'bad guy' portrayals. If he is snobby, he is the most snobby man ever born, arrogant, the most arrogant man ever... well you get the picture, the silly stereotypes are quite childish in their invention. The main characters are excruciatingly smug, so much so you just want to smack 'em, so much so, you are hoping the 'evil man' in each episode will get away with it and come back for some revenge. This means you can feel nothing for them, you care not for the outcome, which takes all involvement right out. I found myself uncontrollably laughing at some points, such was the disbelief at was I seeing. Any moment on screen is accompanied with filler music and unexplained slow mos. The worst thing I have seen from the BBC.