On Amazon’s 007: Road To A Million, ordinary men and women are dropped into Bond-themed adventures and locales and made to answer slippery questions for huge sums of money. The idea of a protagonist in a James Bond film breaking into the Britney Spears song Hit Me Baby One More Time is unquestionably sacrilegious, but there’s something beautiful about seeing a broken, nervous contestant on a reality show deriving rhythm-and life-force-from a 1990s chartbuster. “Oh baby baby,” he sings, “How was I supposed to know…” Also read: Emmys 2020: 'Succession' star Brian Cox on morality, swearing and Indira Gandhi As he trudges on, he breaks into song, trying to amuse himself through this tiring and solitary journey. He doesn’t answer his concerned wife on the other side of a walkie-talkie he has miles to go and not much to say. This is a man who has lived in fear ever since he was the victim of a stabbing, and he shivers as he climbs toward the 5,500m high crater, alone. A man walks up the side of an active volcano.
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