Thunderbirds Brink of Disaster review

Here's what you need to know; Jeff is reeled into a dangerous situation when Penelope is visited by a shady businessman in search of investors for his new fully automatic monorail system. When something goes wrong with the monorail, Jeff, Brains and Tintin are the only ones who can stop the train and save themselves while Penelope and Parker deal with problems of their own.

This episode starts off in a pretty amusing way, with Penelope being 'late' to an appointment, a sequence as fun to watch as it is funny. this episode also does a good job of setting up it's more nefarious characters, and their crooked and greed driven master plan, both to make a load of money off the automatic monorail by bypassing safety regulations, as well as to get money through even less legal means. When things start going wrong though is when this episode really ramps it up, as the crooked businessman starts panicking under the pressure of this nightmare scenario, and Brains and Tintin get to work trying to stop the train, an endeavour that comes to a head in a very awesome and very intense manner, similar in many ways to Move and You're Dead, an episode I loved. The Thunderbirds actually have very little to do in this episode, but it's not much of an issue when the bulk of this episode's good bits come before they even show up. Jeff and the gang aren't out of the woods by the time the Thunderbirds show up, and the rescue is decent enough, a good chance of failure never hurt anyone. back in jolly old England land though is the very funny story of the Penelope and the jewel thieves, a sub plot that starts off villainous and shifty enough, but by the end is one of the funniest things this show has done in a while, as the thieves find themselves completely outmatched by Penelope and Parker. Without giving anything away, this episode has a perfect ending too, an ending that wraps it's subplots up very well and leaves on a suitably funny note. All in all this is another episode of Thunderbirds that I really like, it's got some great tension, some great humour, and a fun and satisfying story of the pitfalls of corporate greed, definitely worth a watch.