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

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

last one I promise

Think your child has been recruited by the OCG? Here's our guide to help you understand which abbreviations to keep a watchful eye on... 👀 #LineOfDuty pic.twitter.com/c2HUXDpXSS

— Social Media Gurus (@SMMS_Guru) April 28, 2019

I am more concerned about Dunbar’s sudden bad acting that Ted’s guilt tbh

If next season is the last season, the gaffer has to be out of the picture, it’s standard Gandalf disappears in the third act whatnot

There’s no way he’s H tho

Also I’ve missed Kate and her hopeless undercover sitcom scenes this season

AM-M was very broad in this ep, almost like a Comic Relief skit, but I thought it kind of worked

Agreed, what are they playing at with the "remains relating to an IC1 male"? We glimpsed remains wearing a bloody brown leather jacket, not the stylish hoodie ensemble Corbett was last seen in.

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

xps: IC1 male whose dna matches Corbett though, iirc?

someone has spotted that Ryan Pilkington's social worker was a Jane Hargreaves (the third Jane/Jayne along with Cafferty and Aykers!) - unknown if related to Lester.

as I see it there are a few possible reasons for Ted's weird behaviour/attitude:
- genuinely going off the rails/ going maverick due to pressures of the job, wife moving on, wife getting tortured, feelings of betrayal /guilt re Maneet
- acting out some kind of masterplan to draw out the real H/ crack the case etc
- Adrian Dunbar doesn't know which way this is actually going to go so having a bit of fun/ not knowing best way to approach the character

We glimpsed remains wearing a bloody brown leather jacket, not the stylish hoodie ensemble Corbett was last seen in.

I think it just looks brown because of all the blood.

I like how the AC-3 people are alternate-reality versions of AC-12. I like that Brandyce even has the regulation haircut.
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/lineofduty/images/6/6e/Michelle_Brandyce.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/310?cb=20190428223028

someone on another thread said it's like when Father Ted, Jack and Dougal go to one of the other islands :)

Yes!

It's a bit weird that anyone would leave £50k lying around in a hotel room tbh. Wouldn't you put it in the safe or take it work or hide it in your car or something? You'd only leave it on the side if you half wanted someone to come along and find it. Or was the non-concealment of it supposed to help his defence?

tbh even assuming dunbar did suddenly forget how to act (or was badly directed by michelle of eastenders) i can't make head or tail of ted this last ep

https://comb.io/0OdbLn.gif

(i actually didn't think it was a very good ep)

Yeah, Ted in prison should be a wrenching NOOOOOOOOO kind of moment, and instead it's really just "well, I guess it kinda depends on whatever the plot turns out to be".

The mystery box plotting removes agency from the characters. It's like an RPG railroading kind of thing.

I think it just looks brown because of all the blood.

I've reviewed the evidence item and you are correct.

bubble wrap laptop = mystery box

someone on another thread said it's like when Father Ted, Jack and Dougal go to one of the other islands

Yes! I thought of that bit in Shaun of the Dead where "our" gang run into an alternative gang of Tamsin Greig and others escaping a different way, but Father Ted works too.

Strong debut for Anna Maxwell Martin almost distracted from the general dreadfulness of the rest of the episode.

s2 rewatch notes: the fall of dryden is good stuff

do actual real coppers outside this programme really always know the exact number of every single law and reg -- i say in fact no

s3 rewatch notes: when denton's trial ends and she is free to go (sentence already served) and speaks to the press on the court steps and all dot's burner phones light up and start buzzing angrily

I remember liking that moment too. An oblique glimpse at the powers above Dot.