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

Perhaps the people most happy in their line of work, y/n?

definately

"oopsy daisy.. it's like a maze in here"

lol loved it.

Finding a flyblown corpse in this show doesn't quite convince me Thurwell's definitely dead xp

― groovypanda, Monday, April 26, 2021 12:45 AM (ten hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

He's clearly not dead.

this would be jeddy mercury's biggest red-herring yet. james nesbitt's appearance consisting of 2 photographs

also i spent most of last night thinking this was the last episode so was saying to myself:
“they’ve left themselves a lot to fit in 45 minutes”
“they’ve left themselves a lot to fit in 30 minutes”
“…. 15 minutes”
“…. 10 minutes”

etc a lot

i thought it was a bit of a weird episode, a lot of stuff not really working for me. also felt like the plot wasn't moved along as much as you might have expected for the penultimate episode.

I really love the interrogation scenes the most - so it was a good ep for me. But I don't get too heavily into all the daft plotting I more vibe off the ambience and tension in scenes like this.

Huh, I thought it was super fun and tense episode, probably my favourite of the season so far.

Not sure why Kate ran though, apart from generally being a bit of a chump.

So now all three leads have done something significant enough to get them fired?

the kate running and thinking steve and the gaffer had set her up i found very weird, also her almost getting herself shot. just didn't quite work for me.

the interview was a good scene but didn't reveal much. no comment

it revealed that ted says it "you've got another thing coming"

Yeah, definately the sort of thing he would do. Wrong 'un.

noticed that too. v careful to say it that way.

i thought the interview scene was fantastic tbh. three way dynamic.

they're always the best bits and it was about time we had a full-on stonewalling from someone

i find carmichaels hard to watch -- or actually to listen to: anna maxwell martin mumbles or flubs a lot of her words in a way i find really aggravating

i'm also enjoying CI osborne's increasingly demented pronouncements to press cameras

We haven't seen any big reverses in the interview room, which I now realise I've grown to really anticipate with this show, and I miss them. You could usually count on at least one interview where you're deliciously (or nervously) anticipating the complete logistical beatdown of baddy (x) (or unfairly maligned goodie (y)) when halfway through the interview they throw down some jaw-dropping new piece of info that suddenly has the interrogators squirming. Lindsey Denton was a master of this iirc.

the kate running and thinking steve and the gaffer had set her up i found very weird

She said somebody had set them up, but I don't remember her specifically pinning it on Steve and the gaffer? But yeah, running off with Jo really didn't make sense to me. She's had a blind spot for Jo the whole time which might have been explained by Feelings but the show hasn't gone down that road, despite the meetings in cafes, the hand holdings, the "is it personal?" etc. "I'll show you that you can trust me! Let me hold the trigger of your gun while you are also holding it!" was a bit of a mad move and also quite.... hott?? Like I said above, it almost feels like there was supposed to be a romance but it got excised.

Lotta shoes to drop:
- Steve's drugs test
- Steve's transfer
- The gaffer's 50K
- The gaffer's future with AC-12
- What's under the floor
- Is Thurwell really dead?
- And of course... Who ordered the murder of Gail Vella and why?

Also where does Steph fit into it all? Would expect it to come back to her but... can't see it being that interesting?

Poerr Steph. Yeah who knows. Frankly even Jo might not make much of an appearance after this - even if she stays alive in Cell Block H. They've wrung what they can out of her, it seems.

this would be jeddy mercury's biggest red-herring yet. james nesbitt's appearance consisting of 2 photographs

Ha yeah, this would be hilarious. Bung Jimmy Nesbitt a few hundred quid just to use a few pics.

i also found that war room bit a bit weird, a spaniard cop with a go-pro streaming a raid to AC-12 just seemed a bit odd

"I'll show you that you can trust me! Let me hold the trigger of your gun while you are also holding it!" was a bit of a mad move and also quite.... hott??

it was, but this was to get jo’s fingerprints on the gun, right?

Oh my god. How many other things have I missed here?!

We also learned that it's not neighbours who keep giving all this valuable forensic evidence, but the national ballistics intelligence service, Trish, you absolute fool.

Thanks for figuring this out for me! Still not sure why NBIS would get pronounced that way.

Nice little scenic tour they took in Steve's car. 'On the left you will see where Gail Vella got murdered. On the right the secret OCG HQ.'

Oh my god. How many other things have I missed here?!

Heavy foreshadowing at the end, CI Osborne intoning "I will personally see to it that those enemies within are made to suffer the consequences" as the prison door closes on Jo. Of course that's what they want you to think.

Let me hold the trigger of your gun while you are also holding it!" was a bit of a mad move and also quite.... hott??

I thought that part was skating on very thin ice in possible use stereotypical portrayal of repressed female lesbian longings and plotwise tbh

Ha yeah, this would be hilarious. Bung Jimmy Nesbitt a few hundred quid just to use a few pics.

I think Nesbitt's on record as saying he'd like to have been on LoD and him & Mercurio worked together on Bloodlands so wouldn't surprise me if this is some sort of in joke between the two

i also found that war room bit a bit weird, a spaniard cop with a go-pro streaming a raid to AC-12 just seemed a bit odd

On the other hand we now have an in-story explanation for lisping cop's lisp

i do not think we will leave the surgace of s6 with "in conclusion many coppers are bent and now in pokey, ted steve and kate are good not bad and moving on in their uncorrupt careers"

what we might get: "in conclusion ted steve and kate are now in pokey bent or not, here is a house-high osbourne made of gold in a gold hat laughing like an ogre for the press cameras"

It's got the ring of truth

I thought that part was skating on very thin ice in possible use stereotypical portrayal of repressed female lesbian longings and plotwise tbh

Yeah that's fair. It's almost like part of the script is pushing them this way, but Kate, through force of will, absolutely shuts out any spark of longing within her of any sort - as well as any recognition that Jo is bent even after she...... lured Kate to her death?!?!mixelpixel11@frickenfracken!21

We also learned that it's not neighbours who keep giving all this valuable forensic evidence, but the national ballistics intelligence service, Trish, you absolute fool.

Everybody needs good NABIS....
We watch most things with subtitles - it's quite useful and helps me remember characters' names.

I have no concept of what Kate is or was thinking about Jo at all throughout this, particularly as you say, after genuinely luring her to death by Ryan!?

Oh my god. How many other things have I missed here?!

I completely missed this

Féach cé raibh ar Line Of Duty aréir .... 👀

Look (carefully) at who popped up on Line Of Duty last night ...#fwmswm pic.twitter.com/RNH4pCVERA

— Cian Ó Cíobháin (@COCiobh) April 26, 2021

I’m looking at that tweet and I don’t know what I’m meant to be seeing

It seems the hoarding in the background has got a big poster/mural of Andrew Weatherall on it

upcoming: "it's a rave, DI arnott!"

I'm still haunted by that scene in season 2 when Denton is refused bail and in the courtroom quietly says aloud in genuine despair "What about Bella"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuqDzfdR1PQ

Real England?

biffa bacon lookin mfers

i have just begun s1 and am enjoying it. poor gina mckee :( sall i got so far

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.