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

But other than that, love it.

Steve is doing an extended David Beckham impression, I think

Jesus Christ everyone, don't watch Bodies. I mean it's really good but I can't watch about 50% of it as it's surgery scenes or complications with baby deliveries. also Keith Allen.

just started on that myself. grim af

sick Dido burn in ep4

Martin Compston's Scottish isn't he, that's why Steve has that odd mutant cockney accent.

Bodies is superb but a very, very tough watch.

Anyone gone back to Cardiac Arrest? I absolutely loved that at the time, but haven't seen more than the first couple of episodes since.

Only read the Bodies novel, but it was similarly grim and great.

Steve as David Beckham makes so much sense to me now.

Anyway, we're 4 eps into S4. I have no idea how it's going to end apart from Thandie Newton's arm falling off. You don't have that many lingering shots of someone's disgusting, rotting wrist if it's not gonna fall off.

It goes District 9

first 5 mins of bodies s02e01.... jesus this show just does not let up

ha, just watched that myself. stupidly sat down to watch it with my dinner. it's actually worse than an intense horror movie for me.

i cannot do surgery excess, so thanks for the tip off as was tempted to try out Bodies.

in rewatching LoD s1 news: lol there are so many ppl in it who aren't cops, like whole streets full of them*

*i mean obviously they are in fact undercover

Even when their secret assignments never bring them into direct contact with criminals, those teeming "background" undercover officers have it rough. There was that one for instance, I forget which episode it's in, whose cover job is as an installer of kitchen flooring, and he gets terribly injured in the lino duty.

mick signals is H

https://i.imgur.com/Bjxbj6j.png

LoD s1 rewatch note: when the scottish guy starts calling gates "you bent bastard" (the one on the other end of the phone to gates, whose face and name i no longer recall) his accent momentarily reminded me of mike myers as fatbastard in austin powers, and now i can't unsee fatbastard as the overarching criminal mastermind

That would be a disappointing plot twist, imo

lol i just noticed that buckles spells his name buckells, which is somehow even stupider

LoD s2 rewatch note: DENTON

(having a v bad time so far)

I remember the second season being gr8 but having a very weird and indeterminate ending

it's weird how much i've forgotten abt the story!

I remember it being v good. Is it?

There are lot of plot ellipses in Mercurio’s work and I’m never sure whether they’re deliberate or not, or if he’s just allowing himself future leeway to retcon

it packs a lot in! i'm still only a little way into ep2 so i can't tell if it's good but it's exciting :)

also lol denton is now handing out the v bad times

omg keeley hawes is also mom durrell in the durrells

she's in literally everything
s2 is brilliant, but yes we re-watched it not remembering what ended up happening.

just bothered searching for a Bodies thread and there is a vv old one but perhaps I should take the Bodytalk there
is anyone else scared about the NHS after watching the new BBC drama 'Bodies'?

i'm just a bit startled that she's the main character in something i watched recently and enjoyed and didn't put two and two together -- good acting and different hair i guess

Also she’s in the suede video for Saturday night!

she's in literally everything

so true

re-enjoying what a total horndog arnott is in s2 lol

I have the same bed linen as Arnott

1: weird that we didn't see corbett's body imo
2: is hastings like *way* overacting clueless over-blindsidedness? (i.e. dunbar signalling "something is going on" by pushing his character some way out of character?)
3: lol at the interviewing lady not liking ppl shouting
4:apologies to steve arnott for posting abt him being a horndog just upthread and putting him off his game

kind of wanted another 'urgent exit required' bloodbath

nothing as yet has happened with that STEVE ARNOTT envelope Corbett was carrying, has it?

ep directed by sue (=susan) tully = michelle off of eastenders and suzanne off of grange hill btw

1: weird that we didn't see corbett's body imo
2: is hastings like *way* overacting clueless over-blindsidedness? (i.e. dunbar signalling "something is going on" by pushing his character some way out of character?)
3: lol at the interviewing lady not liking ppl shouting
4:apologies to steve arnott for posting abt him being a horndog just upthread and putting him off his game

one way or another i think hastings will go down. they can’t repeat the arnott great escape of last season and didn’t Mercurio say he always had a six season arc in mind?

Will we find out whether Hastings is really H? And will Steve be able to get a boner? Tune in next week

we saw bits of jackie's body in the downs syndrome lad's freezer in an earlier ep (harking back to an ep in s2 which i just happened to have rewatched so remember quite clearly) so its reappearance didn't surprise me much, except it seems like it's a selight of hand somehow. are they setting up that corbett isn't dead? it somehow feels like they're doing that -- we don't see his body, they said something "like material relating to his body" (not that but they very much didn't just say his body) and the stench of decay from dead jackie drove everyone inc.the camera away an actual picture also?

they're making much too much of hastings being H for hastings to be H :(

i mean i don;t see how corbett can't be dead given we saw him bleed out but

chekhov's frozen legs

Not sure why they suddenly brought Laverty in from the cold. Unless it's to do with a connection with the OCG (some theories that Lisa is Laverty & Gates' secret child, which is a bit far-fetched...)

this is sweet

Loved being re-united with @tomi_may for this series - lot of love for this man! Longest serving OCG member!😉 It’s been a pleasure 👌 and what a way to go out! Thank you for absolutely everything! #LineOfDuty pic.twitter.com/5qpeq2DGyW

— Gregory Piper (@gregorypiper98) April 28, 2019

do we know what the exams he passed are? (sergeant's exam?)

didn't think much of it but lots of speculation that it's a police exam

jackie laverty vs jane cafferty

a thing that happens in life a lot but almost never on-screen is ppl with the same or very similar names (except as a central flagged-up plot point): i remember my film-school sister getting v excited abt brookside when it had two characters called jackie and jacqui

I kept getting Dryden and Denton confused.
There was also JamieNotJames and Jimmy Lakewell