i thought the interview scene was fantastic tbh. three way dynamic.
― Fizzles, Monday, 26 April 2021 20:05 (three years ago) link
they're always the best bits and it was about time we had a full-on stonewalling from someone
i find carmichaels hard to watch -- or actually to listen to: anna maxwell martin mumbles or flubs a lot of her words in a way i find really aggravating
― mark s, Monday, 26 April 2021 20:14 (three years ago) link
i'm also enjoying CI osborne's increasingly demented pronouncements to press cameras
― mark s, Monday, 26 April 2021 20:26 (three years ago) link
We haven't seen any big reverses in the interview room, which I now realise I've grown to really anticipate with this show, and I miss them. You could usually count on at least one interview where you're deliciously (or nervously) anticipating the complete logistical beatdown of baddy (x) (or unfairly maligned goodie (y)) when halfway through the interview they throw down some jaw-dropping new piece of info that suddenly has the interrogators squirming. Lindsey Denton was a master of this iirc.
the kate running and thinking steve and the gaffer had set her up i found very weird
She said somebody had set them up, but I don't remember her specifically pinning it on Steve and the gaffer? But yeah, running off with Jo really didn't make sense to me. She's had a blind spot for Jo the whole time which might have been explained by Feelings but the show hasn't gone down that road, despite the meetings in cafes, the hand holdings, the "is it personal?" etc. "I'll show you that you can trust me! Let me hold the trigger of your gun while you are also holding it!" was a bit of a mad move and also quite.... hott?? Like I said above, it almost feels like there was supposed to be a romance but it got excised.
Lotta shoes to drop:- Steve's drugs test- Steve's transfer- The gaffer's 50K- The gaffer's future with AC-12- What's under the floor- Is Thurwell really dead?- And of course... Who ordered the murder of Gail Vella and why?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 26 April 2021 22:03 (three years ago) link
Also where does Steph fit into it all? Would expect it to come back to her but... can't see it being that interesting?
― kinder, Monday, 26 April 2021 22:05 (three years ago) link
Poerr Steph. Yeah who knows. Frankly even Jo might not make much of an appearance after this - even if she stays alive in Cell Block H. They've wrung what they can out of her, it seems.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 26 April 2021 22:12 (three years ago) link
this would be jeddy mercury's biggest red-herring yet. james nesbitt's appearance consisting of 2 photographs
Ha yeah, this would be hilarious. Bung Jimmy Nesbitt a few hundred quid just to use a few pics.
― chap, Monday, 26 April 2021 22:32 (three years ago) link
i also found that war room bit a bit weird, a spaniard cop with a go-pro streaming a raid to AC-12 just seemed a bit odd
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Monday, 26 April 2021 22:38 (three years ago) link
"I'll show you that you can trust me! Let me hold the trigger of your gun while you are also holding it!" was a bit of a mad move and also quite.... hott??it was, but this was to get jo’s fingerprints on the gun, right?
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 07:19 (three years ago) link
Oh my god. How many other things have I missed here?!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 07:25 (three years ago) link
We also learned that it's not neighbours who keep giving all this valuable forensic evidence, but the national ballistics intelligence service, Trish, you absolute fool.
Thanks for figuring this out for me! Still not sure why NBIS would get pronounced that way.
Nice little scenic tour they took in Steve's car. 'On the left you will see where Gail Vella got murdered. On the right the secret OCG HQ.'
― I took drugs recently and why doesn't the UK? (ledge), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 07:33 (three years ago) link
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 07:33 (three years ago) link
Heavy foreshadowing at the end, CI Osborne intoning "I will personally see to it that those enemies within are made to suffer the consequences" as the prison door closes on Jo. Of course that's what they want you to think.
― I took drugs recently and why doesn't the UK? (ledge), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 07:40 (three years ago) link
Let me hold the trigger of your gun while you are also holding it!" was a bit of a mad move and also quite.... hott??I thought that part was skating on very thin ice in possible use stereotypical portrayal of repressed female lesbian longings and plotwise tbh
― Luna Schlosser, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 07:49 (three years ago) link
I think Nesbitt's on record as saying he'd like to have been on LoD and him & Mercurio worked together on Bloodlands so wouldn't surprise me if this is some sort of in joke between the two
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 08:00 (three years ago) link
On the other hand we now have an in-story explanation for lisping cop's lisp
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 08:31 (three years ago) link
i do not think we will leave the surgace of s6 with "in conclusion many coppers are bent and now in pokey, ted steve and kate are good not bad and moving on in their uncorrupt careers"
what we might get: "in conclusion ted steve and kate are now in pokey bent or not, here is a house-high osbourne made of gold in a gold hat laughing like an ogre for the press cameras"
― mark s, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 08:43 (three years ago) link
It's got the ring of truth
I thought that part was skating on very thin ice in possible use stereotypical portrayal of repressed female lesbian longings and plotwise tbh
Yeah that's fair. It's almost like part of the script is pushing them this way, but Kate, through force of will, absolutely shuts out any spark of longing within her of any sort - as well as any recognition that Jo is bent even after she...... lured Kate to her death?!?!mixelpixel11@frickenfracken!21
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 09:23 (three years ago) link
Everybody needs good NABIS....We watch most things with subtitles - it's quite useful and helps me remember characters' names.
I have no concept of what Kate is or was thinking about Jo at all throughout this, particularly as you say, after genuinely luring her to death by Ryan!?
― kinder, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 09:29 (three years ago) link
I completely missed this
Féach cé raibh ar Line Of Duty aréir .... 👀Look (carefully) at who popped up on Line Of Duty last night ...#fwmswm pic.twitter.com/RNH4pCVERA— Cian Ó Cíobháin (@COCiobh) April 26, 2021
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 09:48 (three years ago) link
I’m looking at that tweet and I don’t know what I’m meant to be seeing
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 10:55 (three years ago) link
It seems the hoarding in the background has got a big poster/mural of Andrew Weatherall on it
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 11:01 (three years ago) link
upcoming: "it's a rave, DI arnott!"
― mark s, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 11:58 (three years ago) link
I'm still haunted by that scene in season 2 when Denton is refused bail and in the courtroom quietly says aloud in genuine despair "What about Bella"
― calzino, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 20:39 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuqDzfdR1PQ
― Authoritarian Steaks (Tom D.), Friday, 30 April 2021 19:11 (three years ago) link
Real England?
biffa bacon lookin mfers
― mark s, Friday, 30 April 2021 19:57 (three years ago) link
i have just begun s1 and am enjoying it. poor gina mckee :( sall i got so far
― goole, Friday, 30 April 2021 22:59 (three years ago) link
Predict end-of-season twists
- Carmichael is good not bad- Hastings realises that ACAB and serves himself a Reg 15 notice
― Bignefs Proportionable (seandalai), Sunday, 2 May 2021 17:56 (three years ago) link
probably going to be record breaking (by recent standards anyway) event television viewing figures tonight, so I boldly predict Hastings won't be getting retired
― calzino, Sunday, 2 May 2021 18:17 (three years ago) link
Won't be able to watch it tonight, tomorrow is going to be tough.
― I took drugs recently and why doesn't the UK? (ledge), Sunday, 2 May 2021 19:33 (three years ago) link
I am also predicting Carmichael = good not bad. Beyond that, fuck knows!
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 2 May 2021 19:50 (three years ago) link
I have just realised that Anna Maxwell Martin and Nicola Walker are not the same person. I've got a bit of track record of this kind of thing.
― The Rampaging Goats of Llandudno (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 2 May 2021 19:52 (three years ago) link
definately maybe
― calzino, Sunday, 2 May 2021 20:40 (three years ago) link
SURELY HE WAS A CRIMINAL MASTERMIND IF HE FOOLED THEM THE WHOLE TIME
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Sunday, 2 May 2021 20:42 (three years ago) link
OH COME ON
I’ve mostly enjoyed this season but the last two episodes have been terrible.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Sunday, 2 May 2021 20:55 (three years ago) link
Verging on Bodyguard levels of lousy script, plotting and acting.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Sunday, 2 May 2021 20:56 (three years ago) link
lol it sucked!
― calzino, Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:00 (three years ago) link
That was so bad! The joint reaction in this household likehttps://media.tenor.com/images/288254fa4a3b933f0787bc60ebc6c667/tenor.gif
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:00 (three years ago) link
yeah that was limp and poor and hinges on a mispelling and buckells just not caring. HOWEVER i *loved* that it was *incompetence* that was responsible for his power.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:00 (three years ago) link
Tbfffff at the end i was like, DO NOT GET KATE AND STEVE TOGETHER I FUCKING SWEAR and at least that didn’t happen
some absurd speeches in there fella.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:01 (three years ago) link
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:01 (three years ago) link
Buckells going NO COMMENT all interview and then Scooby Doo villaining it, like God Jed, did you write this the same week you did Bodyguard? Did you even read it back after you wrote it?!
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:02 (three years ago) link
Also the chief constable going on camera “the public don’t want police officers to be held responsible for every little thing they’ve done” COME ON
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:04 (three years ago) link
no, i think hastings principle was that him failing upwards and being the last person standing just by dint of not being at the centre of things was what enabled him, without really having any urge to power, to be the centre of things. he liked the money and he’d just go along with it whenever it came along, and in the end that sort of thing, far more than superbrain conspiracy, is what brings corruption. dismal episode and i think the last two series have been fairly feeble compared to the high of S2. but as i say, i liked that thesis.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:05 (three years ago) link
Even worse “the public don’t want police to be accountable”
― stet, Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:05 (three years ago) link
also nice witness protection programme jo. everyone else gets a shitty terrace at the arse end of nowhere.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:06 (three years ago) link
#LineofDutyFinale https://t.co/l8f5mtQWmR— No Context Eamon Dunphy (@NoContextDunphy) May 2, 2021
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:06 (three years ago) link