LINE OF DUTY: cop-on-cop action TV procedural that demands analysis

I watched the very first episode a couple of weeks ago and wasn't especially keen, it all felt a bit too dour, too murky. Then it got to the twist at the end of the second episode and I'm on board.

b: it is great at shock developments (on sun i told myself "just one more ep b4 bed" and hence confronted self w/a home invasion and a throat-cutting)

― mark s, Wednesday, March 29, 2017 10:57 AM (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

coSINE

Now I think of this as a British spin-off to John Wick, with its own magical crime universe of frozen body parts, infinite AC units, part man/part balaclava-men, etc.

Ha, that was pretty much the exact moment we went "OK, this is worth watching now, wtf is going to happen" too Matt DC.

I believe it was Newton who first postulated that for every corruption there is an equal and opposite anticorruption

Often within the same officer.

lol steve is such a sulky pup

(s4 rewatch notes)

He's more a determined little terrier, surely

a subplot in s4 is who of kate and steve is going to get promotion and when i wrote that steve was
(a) convinced it's kate and
(b) had just overheard undercover kate sucking up to thandie newton by slagging of AC12

so he had a gob on him as he drove away

(ok lol v slow on this) = the greatest crossover event in history:

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--m78oMrIr--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/wpqyegy4xmgjkbzkuiqj.png

s4 rewatch note: actually good self-deprecating joke from ian buckell: "this dick's no grass for ac12, he's a dci -- and i didn't get there by sticking my neck out, i got there by any other buggers. maybe that's why you're still a ds"

"he's got fractured legs, pelvis, back, skull"

*in bed an unbruised arnott has a small plaster on his forehead*

― mark s, Monday, April 17, 2017 11:59 AM (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^back at this lol

i had somehow forgotten how nuts s4 was they pack so much in!

*slaps roof of s4* "this bad boy can fit so much fucking balaclavamen in it"

easy with that s4 mate, do you want to put a Denton it

I watched the first three seasons last week. I guess I’ll watch S4 this weekend.

Rewatched or watch watched?

more top-notch comedy from buckells, my new favourite secretly quite smart character

tokyo r yr in fr a TREAT

Watch watched!

the series has always been at it's best when it's essentially a Columbo-like battle of wits between AC-12 and some specific devious individual - Gates, Denton, Huntley. This series has lacked that specific focus, and although the murder of Corbett was a great shock ending it also served to completely deflate the tension built up to that point.

Series 3 was a messy one too, perhaps even messier than this current series, but it still had that big denton energy

also, i know it's a horrible critic's cliche to be all "even at it's worst, this is still better than 90% of everything else", but i'm still thoroughly enjoying this comparatively weak season

Season 5 suffers from conspiracies and balaclavas being the weakest parts of LoD. Anyway despite the massive spoilers in this thread, I'm here for the H=Blobby reveal and will be mightily cheesed off if they put it into next season with a stupid cliffhanger.

if they *punt* it

https://www.instagram.com/p/BueD0cynX4O/

iii: some computer sex thing i don't want to think abt probably involving balaclavas and furries

― mark s, Sunday, April 14, 2019 11:42 PM (three weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

DOT SAYS DOT DOT DOT DOT

When they mentioned Ted’s mother raised him Catholic because his old man left...children in mixed marriages are supposed to be raised Catholic?

I like the idea that his background would have been unclear due to his name - I knew he was Irish the first time I heard him speak!

Also do not want to think about his juggalo shame porn or whatever he was looking at.

bit of an Empire Strikes Back vibe to that last episode, everything left hanging

https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/hastings/1263/

Can’t wait for next season when we find out Buckells is the 4th one

Gill Juggalo

_didn't think much of it but lots of speculation that it's a police exam_


Yeah, Ryan getting set up for some final-scene piano-backed montage putting on the uniform while Hastings goes to chokey

So wait, is Hastings bent/H or not?

it's pronounced huggalo xp

(terrific "villain revealed" scowls at the climatic point in a the interview-room-of-infinite-reversals also)

the four dots thing is rubbish
also if he's saying dot... dot... dot-dot then in morse code that's dash dash dot dot, right?

Also Carmichael smugly shows that dying declaration clip to 'prove' Hastings was H, but in it Kate says something like 'blink at the first two letters of their name' (?) ABCDEFGH - blink; H, ok - then ABCDE.... *no blink, carks it*
so the second letter definitely isn't A.

Absolutely loved the 'urgent exit required'.

Disappointed the computer was just porn as I'd been joking all along

dash dash dot dot is z

the big z

actually dot blinks on H and I one after the other
so probably meant Hilton who promoted him
or is just closing his eyes for the final time

I’m sure there’s a ZAZ or Mel Brooks gag involving an overelaborate dying confession in code. Touch of Cloth maybe?

Anyway, good season, surprisingly dismal last two episodes.

Glad that Mercurio realised the only way to win at "who is H" is not to play. Less glad that the explanation was stupid.

Solid enough episode except that it really needed the audience to waver on Ted's innocence and start to side with Carmichael. It was clear from the beginning that he was being set up, unless you're on the "he set up Gill to set him up to throw off the scent" theory.

Disappointed the computer was just porn as I'd been joking all along

Or so Hastings says, anyway. We still don't know the REAL truth. I assume.

Find the person signing off all the immunity agreements in exchange for no testimony of any actual use and you find H imo.

Are there actual shops with ‘computer disposal’ in big letters on the window? ‘Computer repair’ yes of course but disposal seems like a weird thing to advertise, almost like a admission that they can’t fix your laptop anyway, or maybe it’s a secret signal to craven smut-fiends like ted that here is a shop that will not judge you and your wanktomania. Obviously I don’t have a Dell full of steamy blobby-on-blobby action to get rid of though so I’ve never really looked. Also still puzzled as to why he bubbled wrapped it first and who the hell keeps bubble wrap in their hotel room anyway?

Other thing that troubles me is the four caddies thing is obviously a four candles reference and that corbett’s dad will turn out to be ronny

http://images.45cat.com/the-four-dots-dont-wake-up-the-kids-1959.jpg

That was a really rough failure to dig the season out of the hole it had built. As he died, Dot blinked to indicate the letter H, which in morse code is ••••, which he was also tapping with his finger, which Arnott realized from a freeze frame, in order to indicate that there were four police staff in league with organized crime: Cole, Prasad, Dot, Hilton, Fairbanks, and Gill?

Still unanswered: most things

Love these buddy interludes though.

FLEMING: Well, we didn't get much from that person we just interviewed.
ARNOTT: Could he have been lying?
FLEM: We won't know that until we figure out some real answers.
ARN: You're right, we still don't know the answer to the mystery that we're trying to solve.
FLEM: We better go find the next clue now!
ARN: Should we hurry?
FLEM: Yes, there's work to be done!
ARN: You're right, and it's urgent police work!