'Line of Duty' attracts record 9.6m viewers

[A Quiet Monkfish]

I'm relieved to read that because I think it's dreadful. Wooden acting, Dunbar using phrases that an Irish farmhand might use (my wife is irish) and does anybody actually think the police use expressions like chis, rather than informant or one of the other every day expressions meaning the same thing!

It's just so unreal. The whole dialogue is just a long cliche-ridden of quick fire repostes. Nobody speaks like that, unless it's a daytime USA crime drama, which this is trying to emulate. The plot is absurd as well, full of 'holes'. Let's be honest getting 4 blokes with no criminal records to stage an armed robbery in which someone is killed, just to delay getting to a stake-out is so ridiculous it's laughable.
Sorry, but for me it's unrealistic dross..

[Croesy Blue]

It's just so unreal. The whole dialogue is just a long cliche-ridden of quick fire repostes. Nobody speaks like that, unless it's a daytime USA crime drama, which this is trying to emulate. The plot is absurd as well, full of 'holes'. Let's be honest getting 4 blokes with no criminal records to stage an armed robbery in which someone is killed, just to delay getting to a stake-out is so ridiculous it's laughable.
Sorry, but for me it's unrealistic dross..

The queen's gambit was about as unrealistic as you can get but still good, you even held it up as evidence that line of duty wasn't good.

[splott parker]

The queen's gambit was about as unrealistic as you can get but still good, you even held it up as evidence that line of duty wasn't good.

Mate of mine said he enjoyed the film Ghost but it was it a bit far fetched

[Elwood Blues]

Sad to see that Sara Hughes the TV critic for the Guardian wrote her last review for Line of Duty on Saturday 3 April for episode 3 of series 6 (obviously TV critics see them in advance) from her hospital bed and then passed away on Monday.

The Guardian is not having a new reviewer for the rest of the series, but leaving it as an open thread for viewer comments

[splott parker]

They could leave the end of every series hanging and the boys and girls from New Tricks could solve them in a few years time.

[Feedback]

The queen's gambit was about as unrealistic as you can get but still good, you even held it up as evidence that line of duty wasn't good.

the Queen Gambit is about Bobby Fischer.

[Gofer Blue]

It's just so unreal. The whole dialogue is just a long cliche-ridden of quick fire repostes. Nobody speaks like that, unless it's a daytime USA crime drama, which this is trying to emulate. The plot is absurd as well, full of 'holes'. Let's be honest getting 4 blokes with no criminal records to stage an armed robbery in which someone is killed, just to delay getting to a stake-out is so ridiculous it's laughable.
Sorry, but for me it's unrealistic dross..

So I'm not the only one who found the armed robbery decoy scheme unbelievably far-fetched!

[Elwood Blues]

It's just so unreal. The whole dialogue is just a long cliche-ridden of quick fire repostes. Nobody speaks like that, unless it's a daytime USA crime drama, which this is trying to emulate. The plot is absurd as well, full of 'holes'. Let's be honest getting 4 blokes with no criminal records to stage an armed robbery in which someone is killed, just to delay getting to a stake-out is so ridiculous it's laughable.
Sorry, but for me it's unrealistic dross..

Daytime soap is a well known phrase but I have never heard of a daytime crime drama. Any examples?

Most shows are full of holes. I watched Unforgotten and thoroughly enjoyed it but what I found a bit unbelievable was that they found witness who had clear recollections of events 30 years ago or shops or companies that had still got 30 year old receipts and were able to find them with no trouble at all!

But such devices are common in crime dramas.You often have to suspend belief otherwise you would never watch them!