Season 3 of "Our Girl" sees our heroine Georgie Lane, played by Michelle Keegan ship out to Nepal with a small rescue unit to assist the locals in the aftermath of devastating earthquakes afflicting the locals. This time, for company, she gets to mentor a gobby young, black female driver Maisie and you just know from their first testy meeting that they're going to end up best-buddies, bonded by fire and a shared, if fleeting, passion for Georgie's old flame Elvis who unsurprisingly rears his be-maned head again.
Over four episodes, realistically shot in convincing settings, this particular tour of duty sees the unit unsurprisingly drawn into Afghanistan to take out a local war-lord while at the same time adopting along the way a charismatic English-speaking young local girl Tara who misguidedly gets drawn into a trafficking situation accidentally inspired to do so by Maisie's "go-girl" encouragement.
Love is in the air too for Georgie as she encounters a handsome local humanitarian organiser who if briefly takes her mind off her former fiancé Elvis when he re-appears but it's not long before the latter's persistence turns her head again. Will they make it to the altar again, well, you'll have to wait and see, as the planned extraction of their target doesn't go to plan, (when does it ever?).
As before, the viewer is expected to know frequently deployed impenetrable army jargon, which can get irritating after a while, as does all the "Boss" and "Eyes On" phraseology. Georgie's romantic entanglements veer close to soap-opera, although there's humour in the burgeoning romance between the persistent young squaddie Rab who chases the frosty Maisie where it takes a life-threatening situation for him to show her where her heart lies.
The combat sequences were realistically portrayed and there was plenty of earthy barrack-room humour to leaven the tension in what was an entertaining if not wholly credible or cliché-free series.