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

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

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

yeah the Bodyguard was tosh towards the end :(

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.

its more sinister lol

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

for real?

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.

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.

Aw!! <3

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

DOT

DOT

DOT

DOT

what the dotting christ was that retrofitted nonsense jfc

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Filming of series 6 suspended.

boooooo

Le fuck

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.

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

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!

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...

He likes his steak with NO SAUCE, remember

Lol. Ok, but even then, does he not know how to erase his history or delete a file? Just struck me as a very weak resolve: ‘lets just use porn as his excuse’.

Funny, we just binged this entire show and I was thinking of bumping the thread. Pretty addictive, though S5 was definately my least favorite. the conclusion just wasn't as satisfying as other seasons. I don't think Hastings's actions will get explained in more detail. I agree they seemed pretty out-of-character for him, and likely just for the purpose of misleading viewers

Me and my Dutchness didn’t buy it. I’m willing to accept the ‘catholic shame’ angle, it’s just so random

This is back tonight at 9!

is series 5 going to spoiler series 3 and 4? (which i haven't seen yet)

wait, this is series 6?

The answer is yes anyway

yesssss
suddenly realised I remember zilch about s5, apart from some utterly retro-handwavey reimagined stuff about 4 dots that I am choosing to ignore and hoping s6 does too.
but trying to squeeze in a rewatch of the last ep or 2 of s5 to remind me...

kinder at 2:02 12 Mar 19
I'm also considering a re-watch of all of LoD before s5 starts...

Here's a spoilery recap of the series so far:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43qt3FrZh4s

this show is so dependably bananas

Tense! Fun! But a slightly boring first episode cliffhanger, given its previous form in that respect.

On the whole this episode wasn’t very revealing, and scenes like “I’ll throw a glass against a framed photograph to show that I’m angry” suggest that this once-great-show could still uncover new layers of dumbness, but on the whole that felt like an improvement on last season.

I guess the very obvious jokes should be left to Twitter (or not) but I did lol at “jizz handler”.

On the whole this episode wasn’t very revealing,

But... but the marks on the floor from the large appliance, such as a FRIDGE OR FREEZER.

Those who haven't seen s1 might want to watch it (it's only 5 eps) (and then remind me if certain things are still in certain appliances? Thought they were moved?)

The finale of s5 was a good recap of that whole series, so that was a good one to watch. I'd forgotten about Ted's wife and Corbett's mum.
Going off to remind myself what bit Buckells was in before and if he was corrupt or just crap...

Watched the series premiere tonight. (It's on Hulu in the US now, no longer on Netflix if it ever was.)

xxp I KNOW

Certain things were in certain appliances as recently as last season xp

Also so far Buckells has just been crap rather than corrupt