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

Predict end-of-season twists

- Carmichael is good not bad
- Hastings realises that ACAB and serves himself a Reg 15 notice

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

Won't be able to watch it tonight, tomorrow is going to be tough.

I am also predicting Carmichael = good not bad. Beyond that, fuck knows!

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.

definately maybe

SURELY HE WAS A CRIMINAL MASTERMIND IF HE FOOLED THEM THE WHOLE TIME

OH COME ON

I’ve mostly enjoyed this season but the last two episodes have been terrible.

Verging on Bodyguard levels of lousy script, plotting and acting.

lol it sucked!

That was so bad!

The joint reaction in this household like
https://media.tenor.com/images/288254fa4a3b933f0787bc60ebc6c667/tenor.gif

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.

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.

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.

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?!

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

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.

Even worse “the public don’t want police to be accountable”

also nice witness protection programme jo. everyone else gets a shitty terrace at the arse end of nowhere.

#LineofDutyFinale https://t.co/l8f5mtQWmR

— No Context Eamon Dunphy (@NoContextDunphy) May 2, 2021

yeah a witness protection listed farmhouse with a golden retriever ... lol gtfo

Buckells otm that even if he wasn’t some criminal genius, the gang still couldn’t catch him

Hole Ten holdings, COME ON

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

also nice witness protection programme jo. everyone else gets a shitty terrace at the arse end of nowhere.

yeah totally. but the only reason they didn’t was because… chloe magicked up some IP address stuff on some printouts right at the end lol.

xpost lol

that shot of the three of them in the elevator was very

https://bensbargains.net/thecheckout/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Phantom-Zone.jpg

I think this show has only been accidentally good

It felt fairly ACAB, like, lol the police are bent, the few good ones are stymied at every turn and drummed out of investigations/work, the best you can hope for is witness protection or prescription drug abuse and broken marriage

What an absolute crock

no honestly i think S2 was incredibly tightly plotted with masterly control of viewer and character knowledge throughout. the last two and this one especiallyvtheres been no thing within the plot to unravel it. it’s just been “oh we found a thing”.

xpost to calz.

underground box of clues was an exciting, dramatic and not lazy touch

first four series were *tense*! last two have not been.

underground box of clues was an exciting, dramatic and not lazy touch

We were like, but this was as bad as Bodyguard and people loved that shit, but it’s getting a pretty bad reaction on twitter so...

look I’m just glad that Ted wasn’t bad, ok?!

I was a bit annoyed they kept referring to s5 so much cos I found it really boring, whereas the first few seasons (Gates! Denton! Dot!) are great. It really went off the rails a bit when they started doing that updated autopsy report “Dot actually was tapping away for a year, did ye not watch the footage or wha” shite.

otm.

Tbf the end vibe of "bad guy just doing his thing because circumstances allowed and he could and no-one was that bothered" is pretty consistent with the rest of it (and also possibly Bodies iirc, not that it was so black and white). If there'd been some Big Secret Jimmy Thurwell pulling the strings and anticipating every turn just to outwit them all that'd would've been terrible.

Pacing was so odd and come off it with the 'we need to interview THIS PERSON right away' "but this person has been in front of us all along" for not one but TWO bad guys. Still not 100% sure what Hargreaves was meant to have done/been.

xp yes Dot's morse code was the worse point of the whole thing and they re-wrote what Kate actually asked iirc.

Really did think Lomax was gonna be bent though at some point.

"Nice one mate"
"Nice one, mate"

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E0aUvt3WUAMG3Dg?format=png&name=large

They really did lean on hurting Ted, that was the only bit I was like “ah God no pls”

TED HASTINGS INNOCENT

some contrarians are trying to suggest it wasn't appalling writing because it still illustrates that cops are self-serving lying fuckers.. hmmm ..No it was just shit.

how come that guy from occy health had such a swish office? every place i've worked, they've been in a portacabin in the car park at best

Well he was the fourth man you see. The role of confiscated prescription drugs and access to incriminating personal info about police officers there ocg most wanted rid of was... hold on, someone’s at the door

user gyac dragged from thread screeching “FLEMSON WAS ROBBED!!!!1” by the two Benny prison screws with 100% job satisfaction

I am actually glad Davidson got a nice cottage with a golden retriever out of it all, so I guess it wasn't all bad

got hooked up with josephine karlsson from spiral too