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Line of Duty - BBC2
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Pic of them filming one night, seemed to be at it for a few hours with the shot being a car screeching out of a gate.
Started watching season 6 as too many people seemed to be talking about it on social media and so I wanted to avoid spoilers - was particularly annoyed when someone posted a picture of one of the characters on social media and I could have sworn I'd seen something about H being revealed... (I did wonder if the series had finished) - fortunately, have now found out it hasn't and I don't know now what the post was about as I'd instantly scrolled past it. I guess the character posted is a contender for H, it did ruin the latest a bit for me initially as I was watching that assuming it was the final and it had been spoiled.... thankfully there is another episode to go this weekend.
I've enjoyed the series, it is quite addictive, it still has the "goon" problem though - some of the scenes - on in particular in the current series and the nonsense in season 3 just ought to have been dialed right down... opn one had we've got a character in the current season that isn't one dimensional and is torn about their involvement in corruption etc.. on the other hand they have these random goons working for these organised crime groups who seem more dedicated/suicidal than the most dedicated Islamist suicide bomber...
You don't need to have some random armed officer inside a police station just turn into a robotic killer upon simply being given the word etc.. or indeed have hardened criminals conduct a gun battle with a load of firearms officers at short range in the street as part of an ambush... they can just as easily hold up say a small convoy by instigating a crash that disables the vehicles and having say just a sniper threat is significant enough etc... Or perhaps use things like a gunman on the back of a motorbike/scooter...
The notion that there is always some expendable resource of mindless drones possessed like the henchmen of some bond villain or "Dr Evil" from Austin powers is the ridiculous aspect of what is other an awesome series. Apparently, the mindless drones who get killed in these incidents don't tend to warrant any investigation either...
Season 1 was Birmingham, subsequent seasons have been Norther Ireland. It's supposed to be a generic UK city I guess... though presumably around the Midlands as they're "Central
Police" and they've previously involved "East Midlands" police.
I've enjoyed the series, it is quite addictive, it still has the "goon" problem though - some of the scenes - on in particular in the current series and the nonsense in season 3 just ought to have been dialed right down... opn one had we've got a character in the current season that isn't one dimensional and is torn about their involvement in corruption etc.. on the other hand they have these random goons working for these organised crime groups who seem more dedicated/suicidal than the most dedicated Islamist suicide bomber...
You don't need to have some random armed officer inside a police station just turn into a robotic killer upon simply being given the word etc.. or indeed have hardened criminals conduct a gun battle with a load of firearms officers at short range in the street as part of an ambush... they can just as easily hold up say a small convoy by instigating a crash that disables the vehicles and having say just a sniper threat is significant enough etc... Or perhaps use things like a gunman on the back of a motorbike/scooter...
The notion that there is always some expendable resource of mindless drones possessed like the henchmen of some bond villain or "Dr Evil" from Austin powers is the ridiculous aspect of what is other an awesome series. Apparently, the mindless drones who get killed in these incidents don't tend to warrant any investigation either...
Season 1 was Birmingham, subsequent seasons have been Norther Ireland. It's supposed to be a generic UK city I guess... though presumably around the Midlands as they're "Central
Police" and they've previously involved "East Midlands" police.
Well, I guess they don't need to change the fictional location/props used in the interiors etc.. even if the outdoor filming has moved.
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james nesbitt is filming bloodlands with jed mercurio who wrote line of duty so its very easy for him just to do a cameo
Actors do it all the time across writers different shows
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"...and I did that Kennedy thing in Dallas, too. American lad, if I remember rightly."
*high fives all round*
FIN
*high fives all round*
FIN
Yeah i guess, but his one seemed almost completely pointless really, wasn't even any spoken lines were there?
I've a sneaking suspicion he's not actually the dead body in the footage, but that's just my feeling. Can't remember them confirming it 100%
Started watching Line of Duty from season 1 on Tuesday and finished season 6 episode 6 tonight, just an hour before the final episode.
Definitely lacking the suspense and intensity that I felt with season 3 final but perhaps it had to be done that way because of covid, depending on when they were filming it
The HMS Vigil from the makers of LoD looks good though https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/vigil-trailer-martin-compston-newsupdate/
Definitely lacking the suspense and intensity that I felt with season 3 final but perhaps it had to be done that way because of covid, depending on when they were filming it
The HMS Vigil from the makers of LoD looks good though https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/vigil-trailer-martin-compston-newsupdate/
Ah thanks for confirming.
I thought that perhaps it was made to 'look' like him, as the bodies seemed to have been decomposing from the grainy footage so that identification would have been harder, but i'm probably thinking too much into it!