Line of Duty

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Have you finished Unforgotten yet?

CHRISB50

Brio said:

According to a few of my ex force mates the most accurate TV cop show was Rosie.

My old man was a career copper. His opinion was that Operation Good Guys was the most realistic portrayal of the police he'd seen on TV. Which is pretty scary if you've seen it.

Jalapeno

Chuffola said:

Love it, but agree with the criticisms levelled in this thread. It's popcorn TV on a Sunday night and, being from Belfast, I spend a lot of the show checking out the locations where they've filmed which is fun. 

Adrian Dunbar is the best thing about it, for me - but totally agree that they are now cramming in his "catch-phrases" far too much.

I loved "Jesus, Mary, & Joseph and the little donkey !"

EricTheWeary

Snap said:

Have you finished Unforgotten yet?

All four series in as many weeks. For maybe two and a half series it was people getting on with their jobs and I quite liked the almost docu drama element then they decided to up the dramatic part and I lost interest to some extent. Having watched that much I just wanted to see it through.

Philly_Q

Jalapeno said:

Chuffola said:

Love it, but agree with the criticisms levelled in this thread. It's popcorn TV on a Sunday night and, being from Belfast, I spend a lot of the show checking out the locations where they've filmed which is fun. 

Adrian Dunbar is the best thing about it, for me - but totally agree that they are now cramming in his "catch-phrases" far too much.

I loved "Jesus, Mary, & Joseph and the little donkey !"

That was a genuine laugh out loud moment. 

I've heard a lot of moaning about that whole "no comment" scene, but I think those extended interrogations in the AC-12 office are the best, most gripping scenes in LoD.

Snap

EricTheWeary said:

Snap said:

Have you finished Unforgotten yet?

All four series in as many weeks. For maybe two and a half series it was people getting on with their jobs and I quite liked the almost docu drama element then they decided to up the dramatic part and I lost interest to some extent. Having watched that much I just wanted to see it through.

Quite sad in the end though!

EricTheWeary

Snap said:

EricTheWeary said:

Snap said:

Have you finished Unforgotten yet?

All four series in as many weeks. For maybe two and a half series it was people getting on with their jobs and I quite liked the almost docu drama element then they decided to up the dramatic part and I lost interest to some extent. Having watched that much I just wanted to see it through.

Quite sad in the end though!

Oh yes, very sad  

AlbertC

What I find a bit odd is that why have a pretty big name actor - i.e. James Nesbitt - play a character (Marcus Thurwell) in a non-acting, non-speaking role? He's only appeared in photographs and is now dead (supposedly) having been bumped off in Spain.

Makes me wonder if perhaps he isn't actually dead and could turn up with an actual appearance in the final episode. 
But who knows...

 

Tone71

We just finished series 3 (why is it series here and season in the US?) really enjoying it and almost glad we didn't watch it until the last series, starting to join the names up to the references now but will probably rewatch this series again once we've caught up. 

EricTheWeary

AlbertC said:

What I find a bit odd is that why have a pretty big name actor - i.e. James Nesbitt - play a character (Marcus Thurwell) in a non-acting, non-speaking role? He's only appeared in photographs and is now dead (supposedly) having been bumped off in Spain.

Makes me wonder if perhaps he isn't actually dead and could turn up with an actual appearance in the final episode. 
But who knows...

 

That’s the suspicion, maybe a double bluff? Seemed the same with Andi Osho that she’d just appear as a picture and she has had a few words to speak now. 

Hurling_Fruitmig

AlbertC said:

What I find a bit odd is that why have a pretty big name actor - i.e. James Nesbitt - play a character (Marcus Thurwell) in a non-acting, non-speaking role? He's only appeared in photographs and is now dead (supposedly) having been bumped off in Spain.

Makes me wonder if perhaps he isn't actually dead and could turn up with an actual appearance in the final episode. 
But who knows...

 

I’ve not been trawling the theory sites to see if anyone else thought the same, but a friend is convinced that the Spanish AFO that led the raid in the last episode was Nesbit/Thurwell.

english_bob

^^^ I can take or leave that particular theory, but there's no way that was Thurwell's dead body on the bed. Not when the audience barely got a look at him.

Makes sense that Thurwell would have a bent Spanish copper or two on hand for just such an occasion as that if he's who they think he is.

EricTheWeary

Hurling_Fruitmig said:

AlbertC said:

What I find a bit odd is that why have a pretty big name actor - i.e. James Nesbitt - play a character (Marcus Thurwell) in a non-acting, non-speaking role? He's only appeared in photographs and is now dead (supposedly) having been bumped off in Spain.

Makes me wonder if perhaps he isn't actually dead and could turn up with an actual appearance in the final episode. 
But who knows...

 

I’ve not been trawling the theory sites to see if anyone else thought the same, but a friend is convinced that the Spanish AFO that led the raid in the last episode was Nesbit/Thurwell.

Someone posted that on Twitter and other people started posting screenshots that seemed to show clearly it wasn’t. 

But, yes, for just a couple of photos they could have used anyone so it feels like there must be more Nesbitt to come. Perhaps like a 1970s sitcom there will be a film spin off set in Spain  - Carry On Line of Dutying. 

Hattigol

EricTheWeary said:

Someone posted that on Twitter and other people started posting screenshots that seemed to show clearly it wasn’t. 

But, yes, for just a couple of photos they could have used anyone so it feels like there must be more Nesbitt to come. Perhaps like a 1970s sitcom there will be a film spin off set in Spain  - Carry On Line of Dutying. 

Carry on Bending would surely be more fitting for the genre, although could easily be misconstrued....

TimmyO

EricTheWeary said:

Hurling_Fruitmig said:

AlbertC said:

What I find a bit odd is that why have a pretty big name actor - i.e. James Nesbitt - play a character (Marcus Thurwell) in a non-acting, non-speaking role? He's only appeared in photographs and is now dead (supposedly) having been bumped off in Spain.

Makes me wonder if perhaps he isn't actually dead and could turn up with an actual appearance in the final episode. 
But who knows...

 

I’ve not been trawling the theory sites to see if anyone else thought the same, but a friend is convinced that the Spanish AFO that led the raid in the last episode was Nesbit/Thurwell.

Someone posted that on Twitter and other people started posting screenshots that seemed to show clearly it wasn’t. 

But, yes, for just a couple of photos they could have used anyone so it feels like there must be more Nesbitt to come. Perhaps like a 1970s sitcom there will be a film spin off set in Spain  - Carry On Line of Dutying. 

My money is on Nesbit being a deliberate distraction 

But my money is also on the big reveal being a huge anticlimax and I really hope that's not the case 

Snap

It would be great if it was Ted all along. Jesus Mary Joseph and the Three Wise Men!! He's H! Throw the book at that fella, he's a BENT COPPER!!

I reckon it will be Owen Teale, or the Chief Constable (the older woman). Both of those would be a bit disappointing though. Bit obvious really.


That Chris, with the thick Notts accent (from This is England), he's a wrong un too. He'll get his dues on Sunday, believe you me, so he will. 

EricTheWeary

There were police officers discussing LofD on the radio this morning and the various elements that bugged them. Seemed to be some love for Happy Valley as a police drama that got the detail right. I've never seen it but looks like it's on Prime so that might be worth a look at some point. 

Hattigol

EricTheWeary said:

There were police officers discussing LofD on the radio this morning and the various elements that bugged them. Seemed to be some love for Happy Valley as a police drama that got the detail right. I've never seen it but looks like it's on Prime so that might be worth a look at some point. 

Happy Valley was fantastic. Really gritty. Sarah Lancashire (yes, Raquel from Corrie) was utterly brilliant as the lead.

EricTheWeary

Hattigol said:

EricTheWeary said:

There were police officers discussing LofD on the radio this morning and the various elements that bugged them. Seemed to be some love for Happy Valley as a police drama that got the detail right. I've never seen it but looks like it's on Prime so that might be worth a look at some point. 

Happy Valley was fantastic. Really gritty. Sarah Lancashire (yes, Raquel from Corrie) was utterly brilliant as the lead.

I don't know her from Corrie really but I saw her in Talking heads and that was probably my favourite from of that series.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p08ftm4h/alan-bennetts-talking-heads-series-1-2-an-ordinary-woman

Hurling_Fruitmig

Snap said:

That Chris, with the thick Notts accent (from This is England), he's a wrong un too. He'll get his dues on Sunday, believe you me, so he will. 

Some people are convinced that he was one of the shaven headed youths in the mugshots shown in thelast episode but I'm not convinced. I'm also sure that the Carmichael tapping out 'H' in Morse code with her pen during the interrogations scene is just a distraction.