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

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midway through s2
The Denton misdirect is impressive!

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 13 January 2020 05:57 (four years ago) link

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

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 13 January 2020 23:12 (four years ago) link

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

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 13 January 2020 23:18 (four years ago) link

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

kinder, Monday, 13 January 2020 23:55 (four years ago) link

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

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 13 January 2020 23:58 (four years ago) link

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

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 05:38 (four years ago) link

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

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 05:40 (four years ago) link

ONE OF US
ONE OF US

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

kinder, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 13:18 (four years ago) link

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.

ailsa, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 21:01 (four years ago) link

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

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 22:04 (four years ago) link

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.

Brainless Addlepated Timid Muddleheaded Awful No-Account (Pheeel), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 23:17 (four years ago) link

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

steer karma (gyac), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 23:22 (four years ago) link

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

tokyo rosemary, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 00:08 (four years ago) link

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

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 05:23 (four years ago) link

target acquired :D

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 06:27 (four years ago) link

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

bidenfan69420 (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 18:06 (four years ago) link

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?

steer karma (gyac), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 18:14 (four years ago) link

Arnott is 100% a Tory

steer karma (gyac), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 18:15 (four years ago) link

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



This list is entirely wrong, he is 100% petty bourgeois generic south of England Tory who tightens his mouth at Labour posters and doesn’t join in with political discussions when he doesn’t want a fight.

steer karma (gyac), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 18:17 (four years ago) link

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

bidenfan69420 (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 18:18 (four years ago) link

yeah the Bodyguard was tosh towards the end :(

kinder, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 23:41 (four years ago) link

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.

bidenfan69420 (jim in vancouver), Friday, 24 January 2020 23:49 (four years ago) link

its more sinister lol

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 24 January 2020 23:55 (four years ago) link

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.

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 26 January 2020 06:36 (four years ago) link

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

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 26 January 2020 06:36 (four years ago) link

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

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 26 January 2020 07:53 (four years ago) link

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

Matt DC, Sunday, 26 January 2020 09:07 (four years ago) link

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.

Matt DC, Sunday, 26 January 2020 09:10 (four years ago) link

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

bidenfan69420 (jim in vancouver), Sunday, 26 January 2020 09:26 (four years ago) link

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

Ngolo Cantwell (Chinaski), Sunday, 26 January 2020 10:22 (four years ago) link

for real?

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 26 January 2020 15:13 (four years ago) link

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.

ailsa, Sunday, 26 January 2020 15:41 (four years ago) link

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.

Ngolo Cantwell (Chinaski), Sunday, 26 January 2020 16:52 (four years ago) link

Aw!! <3

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 26 January 2020 17:29 (four years ago) link

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

ailsa, Sunday, 26 January 2020 19:56 (four years ago) link

DOT

DOT

DOT

DOT

what the dotting christ was that retrofitted nonsense jfc

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 January 2020 02:10 (four years ago) link

you dreamed that
we all dreamed it
it will never be mentioned again

kinder, Monday, 27 January 2020 10:21 (four years ago) link

Love how they just magically notice this on a video they’ve probably watched thousands of times

steer karma (gyac), Monday, 27 January 2020 10:51 (four years ago) link

we haven't got the bit where they pan out further and realise what he's saying with his feet

mark s, Monday, 27 January 2020 11:09 (four years ago) link

Four dots is Morse code for H. The entire thing was retcon wankery of the highest order.

ailsa, Monday, 27 January 2020 12:26 (four years ago) link

in s6 they will re-view the clip and realise that four dots are actually four Es:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcOY8ziJdLk

mark s, Monday, 27 January 2020 12:30 (four years ago) link

it was actually "fore" and the real villain is the golf course from season 1

seandalai, Monday, 27 January 2020 16:22 (four years ago) link

line of duty season 3 - scotophobia report: lindsay denton's caseworker who tries to sexually exploit her: scottish

frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 17:16 (four years ago) link

one month passes...

Filming of series 6 suspended.

tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 19 March 2020 01:08 (four years ago) link

boooooo

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 March 2020 02:11 (four years ago) link

Le fuck

Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 19 March 2020 09:17 (four years ago) link

six months pass...

Just finished watching season 5. Great obv, but:

- 'definately' was not satisfyingly explained. I caught it early on thinking it would be a major clue to H's identity. It was first used by someone pretending to be H. (we think), then when Hastings went rogue(ish) and started chatting with H. But Charmichael's "OK Hastings so you studied H. so well you started typing like him/her/it?" Q - which could only be answered with a t/n anyway - was just... not good. (Hastings also swiftly brushed aside the forensic orthography and clearly thought it was pish)

- neither was Hastings' 'ditched my laptop bcz porn lol'. "Perfectly legal" porn is no reason to ditch a laptop ffs.

Unless it's all to be explained in season 6? Not that everything needs to be explained, mind, but the above just stood out as being handled poorly imo. But then I've not read all of the posts up here. I did read those with an 'H' in it though.

Ilxor in the streets, Scampo in the sheets (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 12 October 2020 15:07 (three years ago) link

- neither was Hastings' 'ditched my laptop bcz porn lol'. "Perfectly legal" porn is no reason to ditch a laptop ffs.

This is definitely your Dutchness talking, sorry to stereotype.

seumas milm (gyac), Monday, 12 October 2020 15:14 (three years ago) link

Oh come on lol. Who ditches a laptop for having watched legal pornography? (he stressed it was legal, if it had been bestiality then... yeah, but it doesn't make sense as a plot point) That's a lot of laptops on the scrap!

Ilxor in the streets, Scampo in the sheets (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 12 October 2020 15:18 (three years ago) link

There’s a lot of ground that’s both “legal” and incredibly embarrassing/disgusting, what have you, I’ve probably said this upthread. And especially given Ted is a Catholic man of a certain age...

seumas milm (gyac), Monday, 12 October 2020 15:21 (three years ago) link


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