LINE OF DUTY

LOVE this show!!

Trailer! Notice it is marketed as BY THE MAKERS OF THE BODYGUARD! Also tiny Martin Compston is shirtless and hairy, if that appeals to anyone. And for the lezzies, Vicky McClure again models the boycut.

Adrian Dunbar as Hastings turns out to be the head crook in charge I may cry.

I’m not a fan of Thandie Newton - she’s lucky she’s so pretty - so Season 4 was a bit of a letdown. But I loved the first three series.

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“Am I the bad guy now?”

Absolutely cannot wait for this. Have binged the first four series in preparation. Had forgotten how completely amazing it was. I think series two which introduced Keeley Hawes' character was my favourite.

It was proper headline television here in the UK. Parts of it have been so controversial it's made the front page of newspapers.

#TedIsNotBent

Four minutes in and Hastings has already said "Mother of God"

OK so they've really laid it on thick with the first ep. We've got a bent copper who was a good guy in an earlier series and an undercover cop who's the last one you'd have suspected.

Martin Compston was fully nude in a movie once, small but perfectly formed.

This first ep didn’t suck me in like last season’s premiere did. I kove Stephen Graham though.

It's definitely starting with it's usual stunts.

R2, Season 4 was the shit!!! Thandiwe(her full name) was amazing! Her character was EVERYTHING! I had to rewatch season 4 because I loved it so much.

Twitter was taking the piss out of all the jargons and acronyms being used in the first episode of season 5.

Series 2 and 3 were the best. Keeley Hawes' character was brilliant. Both guilty and innocent and she went through fucking hell.

Her character arc was front page news here in the UK. People couldn't believe what she was put through.

I agree with r12. Her character also had a depth, and was really interesting. Which was in sharp contrast to the main characters. It is really strange to watch a gripping show, with such dull leads.

Wait, so did Steve lose his promotion to Kate for being physically disabled?

They've both been promoted haven't they?

He called her ma'am in the last episode.

Hmmm. Hastings said he was putting Arnott up for the promotion last series over Fleming as he'd been around longer, but Hastings also called her by the more senior rank in Ep1. I don't think they'd get away with not promoting him because he'd got injured in the line of duty (literally).

But it does seem like a bit of a plot hole or that it hasn't been explained properly. If they'd overlooked him for promotion because he was in a wheelchair the SJWs would go mental.

Don't you have to go before a board to get a promotion? there is definitely a process. We don't know how long he was off work for. You can't really promote someone if they're on sick leave I assume. I'm sure recovering was also his priority. Maybe now he's back they'll start the process for him, or maybe Hastings needed a second in command and couldn't really wait? I imagine if the latter had happened Steve would have been given assurances on his own promotion soon.

Overlooking someone for promotion because they're in a wheelchair (a wheelchair he was put in by an injury sustained at work) would be a HR minefield here in the UK.

If that is what's supposed to have happened it's amusing it hasn't been picked up yet by social media. I'm hoping we've missed something and they've both been promoted or it turns out he refused to be considered for the promotion because he was off sick.

Are they doing that annoying thing again when they go to start a tape recorder that it makes that loud buzzing sound? That is very annoying.

We need to get twitter involved in this obvious case of workplace discrimination.

[quote]If they'd overlooked him for promotion because he was in a wheelchair the SJWs would go mental.

It’s not “the SJWs” (spare us, please, for one thread of your right-wing dog whistles) it’s a very basic anti-discrimination right. He would be well within his rights to take industrial action if his promotion was taken away because he was in a wheelchair. And obviously the writer Jed Mercurio knows this.

It’s important to note that in her scramble to blame everyone but herself for the hole she dug herself into last season, Thandie The Twat tried to paint Hastings as a sexist due to his Scottish habit of calling people “darling” and his promotion of Steve rather than Kate.

So is Hastings covering his ass for some other reason?

R22 Good point but Hastings is Northern Irish, not Scottish.

R22 I wasn't being serious when I mentioned 'SJWs'.

I'm a Brit working in HR who's half-heartedly suggested a plot hole. Your post agrees with me, so I'm not sure what your point is.

I'm enjoying the new season. It is really keeping me guessing.

Will this be shown on BBCAmerica? They stopped showing cop, thriller and mystery shows years ago. Now their 'big hit' is "Killing Eve". Not much else going on there, unless you want to see Star Trek repeats with Patrick Stewart.

Years ago, I was waiting for the new season of "Silent Witness", that never happened.

Without giving a reason, BBCAmerica also unceremoniously dumped "Eastenders". One week it was the there, the next, it was gone.

I still can't believe Hastings kept his job after Dot was finally busted. I know it's TV but there's no way he'd have stayed on and the department wouldn't have been investigated inside out.

I watched it on Acorn TV in America. I wonder when this season will be on?

Why, r27?

Loved Martin Compson in Monarch of the Glen.

Too bad he's not very good in this.

Potential spoiler alert.... . . . My husband just noticed on last night’s episode that when Hastings joined that computer chat he mispelled definitely as “definately”. This same typo was made in the earlier chat conversations, confirming he is - as Corbett has been saying all along - a bent copper.

Or confirming that he was accurately impersonating the bent copper in ways that had already been identified from previous chats and that the writer knew the audience would pick up on R32?

This has been discussed extensively on the guardian discussion board - I'm of the opinion that Mecurio wants us to think that Hastings is H and that he ordered the killing of Corbett through the online chat last night, which means that almost certainly isn't what is happening - there's going to be a lot of reveals in the last two episodes I'm sure.

Stephen Graham: the Line of Duty star whose crackling charisma brought series 5 to life

Line of Duty star Stephen Graham reveals he "couldn't get a job" after This Is England role

His solid acting work also includes two fine screen portrayals of infamous gangsters, Baby Face Nelson in Public Enemies (2009) and Al Capone in Boardwalk Empire (2010).

Is it surprising that I have a real crush on Stephen Graham now? Anybody with me?

Stephen Graham was also in in a show called Accused where he had a doomed relationship with a trans Sean Bean. He's a cute little guy and I'm not surprised he spooked people after This Is London. He was fucking scary.

R37 find him very cute.

I *

Duty Calls: What next for Stephen Graham, Britain’s most magnetic actor?

^ Oscar nomination for Scorsese's Irishman

Compston's chest will probably be trimmed and waxed down to the follicles.

Martin Compston lives in Las Vegas. Weird.

Stephen Graham is also in a show written by Season 1’s Lennie James.

R44, Daily Fail had pap pictures of Martin and his wife shopping at a supermarket in Las Vegas. I thought they were on holiday, then to find out that’s where they reside. He says he’s quite happy living in Vegas.

Also, I’m suffering from Line of Duty withdrawal...I didn’t know what to watch last Sunday at 9 o’clock.

Wait so who is H?

I fucking loathe Anne Maxwell Martin. I may have to give this series a miss.

Anna. I can't even spell her name she disgusts me so.

I love line of Duty, but season 5 is really a slog. I could not get through it.

Tell me who H is now, r51, so I don't have to watch it all.

Any fans of Stephen Graham should check out the Shane Meadows series The Virtues.

It was on Channel 4 here recently. It's grim as fuck but an absolute acting masterclass by Graham. Actually the entire cast is brilliant.

R52, I could not get through it. So no idea.

What was the deal with Kate's promotion and Steve's demotion?

Is this the show that had the guy who played Morgan from the Walking Dead in the first series? If so, i tried watching it but it seemed so ludicrous. I actually laughed when the police raid the apartment in the first ep and shoot someone and then discover it’s the wrong flat because one of the numbers on the front door is ajar! 😂

I agree with r51. Loved the earlier seasons but this one was a chore. It was hard to sympathize with the Stephen Graham character most of the time.

Yes r56, they investigate a different crooked cop each season.

1. Lennie James

2. Keeley Hawes

3. Daniel Mays

4. Thandie Newton

5. Stephen Graham

"I love line of Duty, but season 5 is really a slog.."

Line of Dooty

Re: Stephen Graham - I would. And how.

I was disappointed in the new season...and I always knew that....

SPOILER, BITCHES

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Polly Walker's character was involved in the cover up

Is Hastings evil?

Stephen Graham is a sexy midget.

Just binge watched 5 seasons and LOVED it! You really have to pay attention to the dialogue to make sure you don't miss anything important.

Season 6 won't be released until 2021 because they were only 4 weeks into filming it when they had to stop due to Covid-19. Not sure I can wait that long.

R49 - Anne Maxwell Martin gets totally humiliated and then put back in her box in the final episode of Season 5 so it's worth watching for that.

I'd not heard of this series before. Seasons 1-4 are available on Amazon Prime (free), so this is my next binge.

I tried watching it on Netfilix I believe. First episode season one was pretty bad. Haven't watched anything more.

You won't regret it R65. My recommendation is to watch with the English subtitles on.

Sorry you didn't like it on the Netfilix R66. You're probably better off watching one of the Real Housewife's of series instead. More your level.

R67 Seeing that you had such a mature response. I will take your future recommendations with much more seriousness.