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

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fellas

lol just put on a cbeebies bedtime story on the iplayer and the first two are Anna Maxwell Martin and Stephen Graham

'poor old Edward, sad and all alone' says John Corbett

this season should have been told from the perspective of AC-3, we have a couple of episodes of laddering + bantz and then they start to investigate *ANOTHER ANTI-CORRUPTION SQUAD*

There's only one thing I care about...

...catching bent coppers!

Don't know where else to put this, but since it's impossible to search for: has there been any talk on these boards about the 'Blood' tv series starring Adrian Dunbar? 3/4th in and it's pretty wicked. And evil.

I watched it when it was on a few months ago. It was unpleasant.

Unpleasant, that's the word. Seeing Cat being psychologically tortured (regardless of whether it turns out to be true or not) is almost getting too much. Of course the last episode I watched was her abandoning Barry just when he needed her most and then he did... Well, you know (to avoid spoilers). I'm too far in to quit now - and the acting overall is really great - but it's bordering on unbearable.

started this series last night :D

so jealous

i’m only 3 eps in and it fairly whips along! def onboard

omg VG where ya been?

hello double glazed GLAREd windows

midway through s2
The Denton misdirect is impressive!

this show is bananas and i love it
finished s2, now rolling thru s3

lil stevie arnott gets about - i literally snorted at his “happy anniversary” flowers opening of s3 like get the fuck outta here anniversary of what lol

i love the aggro interviews so much
Dryden in s2 playing gentlemanly like querying what the definition of sexual relations and then growling “aye i shagged her”

is there a window push in s3, i hope so, quite enjoy those

Don't think so but you do get to see Keeley Hawes doing a great Denton snarl

yes! watching her rn
she is GOAT i love this character & her acting
she’s wonderfully shaded ... like there’s some nutso Annie Wilkes in there for sure but also cold logic and loneliness and strategy and she plays it amazingly well

omg u guys i just finished s4 and I need to lie the fuck down.... what a ride.
Thandie was amazing, obv.

BUT Hulu doesnt have S5 yet so I may have to go “find” it

why?

because the only thing I care about anymore is CATCHING BENT COPPERS

oh and shoutout to the makeup effects team for making a barf-tastic MRSA infection ye gods

ONE OF US
ONE OF US

warning, s5 is a bit ... mm... not up to scratch at the end.

End of S5 is, yeah. I watched it with my LoD posse, all entirely stoked for the madness, and we all just went "uh?" and drank a lot and went "uh?" some more. There's some good stuff in the rest of the series though. Anna Maxwell Martin is awes.

just learned that S5 will never be on Hulu bc AcornTV got exclusive rights to S5 - apparently it switched to BBC etc RaGH

so i will definitely be “finding” it and watching soon

S5 has some good pay-offs to really, really old plot threads, but yeah the ending was a sore disappointment. The biggest crime(no pun intended) is that it wastes what should've been one of the crowning interview scenes of the entire series.

I'm hoping S6 goes back to the usual AC12 vs Bent Bastard chess game format which is when the show is at it's best.

at least it ended better than Bodyguard, fucked up that people thought the second half of that was good

VG: If you can’t “find” it, I think Acorn offers a free trial for a week.

omg yes! you’re a genius! thank u tokyo

target acquired :D

just started watching this and finished the first series. compston's accent is hilarious to me

I know he is Scottish (and is a big Celtic fan) but you would never know it! Is it literally to set up that s3 bit that he can’t use his own accent, or did they feel his personality was more suited to generic southeast?

Arnott is 100% a Tory

how the characters from line of duty vote:
steve arnott- labour
kate fleming- lib dem
ted hastings- labour (possibly a non voter)
dot cottan- spoils his ballot
lindsay denton- green
derek hilton- tory
patricia carmichael- lib dem
nigel morton- brexit party
tony gates- tory

— harriet (@flyingpalin) December 8, 2019

i was semi-ironically complaining to my gf that compston being a goody gets made to do the southeast of england accent but the baddy in season one is fine to speak in a west of scotland accent #scotophobiainmedia

yeah the Bodyguard was tosh towards the end :(

xp. finished series 2 last night. not as good as the first series i didn't think, ending didn't quite land for me.

jeddy mercury's vendetta agains the scots continues unabated however. useless, top-brass paedo character = by all means use your scottish accent.

its more sinister lol

I am 4 eps in to S5
I cant figure out what’s weird about it but it doesnt grab me quite the way the others have. Maybe bc all the Hastings stuff is so top-line now? idk. Also I hate Arnott’s facial hair now, he looks like a cross between evil Spock & a nightclub promoter.

But Stephen Graham is fucking great.
The stuff with his wife on the phone was so good. I have loved him in pretty much everything he’s ever been in.
Sidebar: It’s crazy to me that his career was total happenstance: he didn’t even go out for Snatch, apparently he just went along w a friend to the audition.

oh and now he’s off it so thats just great
GREAT JOB SHOW >:(

ooh but I love Anna Maxwell Martin
Best interview sequence yet I reckon, loved her quiet dominance of Hastings
v fun to watch o’shouty get some pushback

steve arnott- Well Labour was alright when Blair was in but Tory ever since
kate fleming- Labour
dot cottan- Tory
lindsay denton- this is a tough one, natural LibDem but there's something about the levels of seething rage that suggests Tory
derek hilton - greasing up to RW Labour councillor type
patricia carmichael- lib dem
nigel morton - Brexit or Tory
tony gates- Labour
ted hastings - only interested in one thing, BENT COPPERS

Yes I typed that entire thing out so I could make that joke what of it?

I recently saw Superintendent Ted Hastings directing his free jazz version of The Wasteland which was not a direction I expected my life to take. He's a lot smaller than he appears on TV so the real Steve Arnott must struggle to make himself seen above medium-sized chairs.

Dont think Compston is crazy small. 5'7 or 5'8

It's Graham's actual missus and kids on the other end of the phone in those sequences.

for real?

Playing Corbett's wife and kids? No it's not.

Martin Compston's real wife is the women who contacts Steve via the dating app though.

Graham was on something recently (Graham Norton, maybe?) and he said that for the phone call his character made to his family, the director had arranged for it to be his actual family on the other end. He'd been missing his family horribly; the reaction on camera was a genuine one.

Aw!! <3

Ah, ok, I thought you'd meant playing the rest of the Corbett family on screen. That makes absolute sense, cheers.