For you Line of Duty fans there's a series starting on BBC 2 at 9pm tonight called Bent Coppers - Crossing The Line Of Duty. Later episodes deal with the setting up of AC-10.
If you didn't know about it, I'm happy to be your chis.
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For you Line of Duty fans there's a series starting on BBC 2 at 9pm tonight called Bent Coppers - Crossing The Line Of Duty. Later episodes deal with the setting up of AC-10.
If you didn't know about it, I'm happy to be your chis.
Well Jimmy Nesbitt kept THAT quiet
And that's all I'm saying
I love it personally. Yes it has cliches and catchphrases, and yes it is unbelievable in parts, but it is a great watch. I love the twists, and how some seemingly prominent characters are suddenly killed off. My favourite scenes are the interviews, especially when they come up with a twist at the end. "Sit down fella"
Years ago, but I'm not sure if still, that was the motto of the Lancashire constabulary training school at it was over the main gates. So everyone entering read it. It eluded to the principle that good police work entails taking your time getting everything right so that when you do catch your villain he is properly caught and doesn't get away.
Hence the name of the series which was set in that area.
It's highly unlikely that X is dead so that means another key witness has been shot and fall-out from that will be interesting.
Now we're sucking diesel fellas
The episodes are getting better. Last night's was gripping.
Several threads set up for next series, assuming it comes. I would say interesting rather than explosive.
What a waste of an hour. Getting flack all over media. As someone else said no way is a Brummie the mastermind.
As much as I love Line of Duty, I have to admit that the last episode was anti-climactic to say the least.
Yes very disappointing ending to a very good series, this seems to keep happening a lot , like the writers have no clue how to finish it
The last episode of the series was a damp squid.
Such an anti climax.
This series seemed the right time to bring the whole thing to a close, so assuming that there's more, just seems to be stretching the story a bit too far.
Think we've been spoiled with previous endings (Dot's death) but last night was a realistic ending for show about police corruption while leaving room for another series if the demand is there.
The bad guys usually get away with it unless their usefulness as an idiot has run out and anyone chasing an exciting conspiracy usually finds the chase more exciting than the outcome - it's as realistic as long, dry interrogation scenes or constant use of acronyms.
Well what a let down , this made me chuckle:
BREAKING NEWS : Thousands of angry fans gather outside the Line of Duty stadium
7 episodes. The first two were poor, in my opinion, and then it livened up and was going well. And last night's finale....well it was awful.
Just an hour of improbabilities and lining it all up for a new series. Poor.
Even I can work out that 'H' is that bloke from Steps.
Do you give any credit to this interpretation?
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I really hope that’s the last ever Line Of Duty so that the message is: nothing ever changes, corrupt organisations destroy even the most principled people, power will always exert itself to protect itself, no reform is possible of fundamentally broken institutions
https://twitter.com/lottelydia/statu...62845669400576
for the finale it had a 56.2% audience share which is huge.
Agreed. No doubt there will be another continuing series in 2022.
I hope the viewing figures are terrible. The BBC and the writers simply refuse to conclude the series and they are now stretching the rubber band to snapping point.
With last nights poor finale and ITV pulling the final episode of viewpoint after the public watched the first4 episodes, TV companies need a short sharp shock
I think the ending will be seen as better with hindsight than it was last night.Quote:
Sad to see last of @Line_of_duty but I really liked the way @jed_mercurio linked incompetence and greed with institutional corruption. Add in corporate culture of restructuring and backside covering and it felt all too plausible.
https://twitter.com/paulwaugh/status...65126234071051
If you think about it as a commentary on current culture then OCG being the big bad and run-of-the-mill police officers being far too willing to assist in order to advance their career makes a lot more sense than a police officer running the OCG.
I don’t. I think it’ll be seen for exactly what it was - implausible nonsense. Line of Duty got progressively stupider with every series. It was good to begin with and always entertaining to a degree, but the plots got weaker and weaker to the point of being genuinely laughable. For instance, the inclusion of the ‘Terry Boyle’ character at the start of this series as a set-up by the OCG was hopelessly feeble.
I really hope last night was the end of it. Line of Duty has run its course. Enough is definitely enough where this show is concerned.
I binge watched it yesterday (there wasn’t much else I could do in that weather) and I suppose the fact I stuck with it says something, but that was partly down to a feeling that it had to get better, yet, if anything, it got worse and I’m sure the last episode would have been universally panned if the programme wasn’t so high profile. By the end, I thought Hastings was veering into self parody and, as has been mentioned before, the “alright mate” conversations between the other two main characters were becoming jarring as far as I was concerned. A few weeks ago on here I said I slightly preferred Unforgiven to Line Of Duty, but the last series of that knocked the seventh aeries of Line of Duty clean out of the park.
I wonder how many people have realised that they have been spelling “definitely” incorrectly all these years
I think you mean Unforgotten, but yes, way better in my view. It was much more understated, less self-conscious, more realistic and plausible, better acted - and yet here's the thing - it was more dramatic, exciting and surprising than all those gun fights in the streets, murders, killings, kidnappings, that were happening what seemed like every day in LOD.
I’ve enjoyed every series of Line of Duty, but now it’s obvious it’s come to the point that Jed Mercurio is struggling to maintain the standard of earlier series. Wouldn’t be surprised if Mercurio wanted to leave it at that, but the ratings the series got probably means the BBC will want to flog the dead horse with at least another series. The way Buckells crapped himself when the solicitor got strangled in his cell makes it obvious he’s not H/4th man.
I’ve wondered if there was an element of there’s never been a better time to be mediocre to the unveiling of H/the fourth man - you’ve only got to look at our Government for proof of that and, before anyone says that’s just me having another dig at Johnson, I’d say it applies to Trump, Corbyn and quite a few others around the world in politics and you only have to look at what the “big six” came up with to see that it applies in football as well.
One of the H's achievements was to groom people into the Police Force and get them promoted to senior positions so vital information could be passed on to the OCG. Can anyone believe Buckells had the authority to do that as he was rising through the Force? There is no way Buckells could be H.
(Spoiler alert): the first 'H' discovered was Dot who had been groomed by the OCG. The story we're lead to believe in the last series is that there wasn't one OCG but several splinter groups still loosely in control but on basis of police incompetency, ego, laziness and how individuals are able to be corrupted with the splinter groups plans being communicated via Buckells. We didn't see anyone be groomed to be part of the police since Ryan who could have been groomed mainly by the OCG with some assistance getting him into the police by previous versions of H.
I still think that makes a lot more sense than a police officer (Kate? Hastings?) being in charge of the OCG which is one of the alternatives.
You forgot about Chief Superintendent Hargreaves (thought originally to be H) who mysteriously appeared and was shot during a robbery by the OCG on a Police Warehouse where drugs and weapons were stored. As for Dot wasn't his dying declaration in an earlier series who first referred to the existence of H?
Anything really, extended it so find out thurwell wasn't actually dead and the raid was another set up.
Even at the end if Jo in protection somehow gave away in a scene that it could still be her and she set up buckles and that's linked to thurwell.
Even brought back in PCC Rohan Sindwhani who suggested he was bring stitched up, maybe he took his name out of it because it was him.
Or his boss, the old female person.
Literally anything else haha
Buckles has been in it since the start but to me it doesn't seem likely. Even the scene with him in the interview was poor, surely they could have given us more than mainly no comment.