Tonight, 9pm, BBC1.
Really looking forward to this.
Let the theories and guessing commence!
Me too.
Watched the 3 previous series in the last few weeks again to catch up.
High hopes? for Thandie Newton's performance.
Pah ,that's why the missus wanted me to to go bed early!!
One of it's "stars" lives around the corner and is a complete arse....
My loss, but it's been ruined for me...
Eeeeeeek!!!
So, forensic Jedi guy can't tell when someone is dead? Or is he going to get rid of her whatever?
Kind of glad she's still alive. Was worried the writing had got lazy with the same 'kill off what looks like a big character' trick as last series.
One of it's "stars" lives around the corner and is a complete arse....
Which one?
Have to say the ending didn't seem the best, each series has gotten racier but this may be too much.
Pound shop Dexter.
Really? I gave up on Dexter after 2 episodes.
Sorry Al - best not to slander on t'interweb...
I'll tell you if I ever meet you. 🙂
2 Brilliant series, then one that started just as well and only really went a bit awry in the final episode and now this absolute joke. From the sublime to the ridiculous.
From the sublime to the ridiculous.
Indeed.
But we'll carry on watching just to see how high and far it can jump over the shark..!
avdave2 - Member
2 Brilliant series, then one that started just as well and only really went a bit awry in the final episode and now this absolute joke. From the sublime to the ridiculous.
Totally agree. The Caddy has gone.
Last series ended bollocks daft and this series has started as such so I have low hopes. Current series of Homeland on the other hand is brill.
Kind of glad she's still alive
Thanks for that!
Was a bit annoying that a series that was based on meticulous process and detail has clearly got sloppy - all the congratulatory 'top job by the police' television news coverage of a case where a bloke has been charged and appeared in court, when in reality they'd be able to say virtually bugger all.
Was a bit annoying that a series that was based on meticulous process and detail has clearly got sloppy
they throw in terminology (eg "GPD" for the dogs) to show off that they've done some work, then 5 seconds later have the SIO doing house-to-house... but really it's this
Last series ended bollocks daft and this series has started as such so I have low hopes
I could forgive the OTT ending as the rest of the series was so strong, but they seem to have decided to start with the shark jump and work from there 🙄 Already lost hours I'll never get back watching the complete cobblers that was Apple Tree Yard, I give this 1 more episode to redeem itself but I'm not hopeful.
Already lost hours I'll never get back watching the complete cobblers that was Apple Tree Yard, I give this 1 more episode to redeem itself but I'm not hopeful.
Hmm - I enjoyed ATY and also all the LoD up to now 🙂 Keeley Hawes character was brilliant and I am happy watching Thandie Newton eat toast.
I am happy watching Thandie Newton eat toast.
You know she's a robot, right?
Final episode of previous series left me disappointed, this new series may be going the same way. 😐
Anyone confused by Ifield wearing the balaclava?
Framing Huntley's death on the suspect?
I'm so confused! 😆
If this is the shark jumping series, may I recommend Bodies, also by Mercurio, similar feel but set in NHS.
Second episode inproved on the first, its still on the edge of barely believable but earns another watch next week.
Not as good as the last few series but I'll give a watch as there's nothing better on at the time.
Oh and..
.I am happy watching Thandie Newton eat toastYou know she's a robot, right?
😆
Can't really decide whether I like it nor, for that matter, WTF is going on. We've got a murderer, a fitted up kid with special needs, a killer cop, a dead but dodgy forensics guy, a husband who is up to something, a senior cop interested more in PR than justice and the usual office politics at AC12. Phew.
It's well made and tense and all that but it seems a bit "lets throw every plot idea we have ever had at it and see where we go". that said, it's better than Silent Shitness.
Oh, and it was too obvious Thandie Newton's character wouldn't be dead; she's too big a name to die in the first episode.
Pretty boring tonight....
😐
Oh!
Not boring now!
Jury still out here.
How many balaclava men do we need?
Wow, didn't see that comin, explains why Huntley's protecting him...
not seen ep 3 yet (thought I'd come on here first).... BUT IT'S OBVIOUSLY HER HUSBAND 🙂
First rule of TV detective shows: look for the inexplicable casting of a too-good actor in a bit-part role.
On a separate note, I'm really enjoying the latest series of Broadchurch - didn't bother with the last one, but this one is excellent so far. With Tennant, Coleman and Sir Lenny of Henry, it's my favourite thing on TV at the moment (besides Hey Dugee, obvs)
Won't be able to watch this until I get home in a couple of weeks. Will be keeping away from this thread.
Bring in a new character can only mean killing another off.
Was really good that episode.
I don't think it's Huntley or her husband - it's the man her husband called just before Arnott entered the building. Huntley will be shown to be just trying to get a conviction and won't know about her husbands goings on.
But really - an attack at a law firm in the middle of the day and there's no-one in the stairwell!?
It's all OK, but not great.
I'm past caring whodunnit, the shark has been jumped for me, and it's too high-octane by half.
And while there were always "suspend disbelief" moments they are too far-fetched in this series - arresting the rape victim with no evidence FFS!
Unfortunately this series is just stretching credibility too far. So many stupid plot holes...
Last we saw a woman was recovering from being knocked unconscious, with a blade cm from her face... next she's overpowered and killed the bloke...
As for Arnott's phone not alerting him to incoming calls just at the convenient moment. What bollocks. Must be made for Holby watchers.
I'm still just hanging on waiting for Thandie's sidekick to throw off her specs, shake out her hair and transform into a swan-siren..
She is Plain Jane Superbrain off Neighbours reincarnate, isn't she.... or is that just me.
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Given the fact that his occipital lobe was dripping down the stairs, Arnott has to be dead?? If he's not dead then he must at least lose that Australian accent as a result of such a head injury 😉
He'll probably leap up the stairs and batter "balaclava man" with his own baseball bat, as blood and brains leak from the back of his skull.
Given the amount of blood they had pooling out of a woman who was then able to overpower a bloke lowering a reciprocating saw a couple of mm from her face, I wouldn't write him off just yet.
@martinhutch - I like how you've combined 2 of my posts into 1 there. Ta. 😉
DezB - Member
Unfortunately this series is just stretching credibility too far. So many stupid plot holes...
Last we saw a woman was recovering from being knocked unconscious, with a blade cm from her face... next she's overpowered and killed the bloke...
No, we don't know that's what happened.
fisha - Member
Bring in a new character can only mean killing another off.
That's what they want you to think 8)
Line of Duty already did "disguised criminal throwing police officer to their death" so my money on Stevo being alive still. But in a wheelchair. With a glass eye. Sort of Ironside meets Columbo.
He's as dead as the show is.
Should have called it a day after that stupid ending of the previous series. 😐
Banal . Waited a while for a chance to use that word but totally appropriate in this case .
I'm still just hanging on waiting for Thandie's sidekick to throw off her specs, shake out her hair and transform into a swan-siren..
Back of the queue, sunshine.
Think it's as good as it has ever been tbh. Great stuff!
I give up.
Suspense for the sake of suspense.
Otherjonv IHN, that's my cousin I shall tell her she has something of a middle aged fan club
How do you know I'm middle aged?
I'm young at heart 🙂
It was more a comment on the lookalike potential, but if you want to weird her out absolutely then feel free.
IHN is clearly besotted though.
And how do you know we're middle-aged? We might be both super-buff athletes?
You're on STW discussing a fairly awful BBC police drama. you're middle-aged either in body or spirit or both 🙂
You're on STW [s]discussing a fairly awful BBC police drama[/s]. you're middle-aged either in body or spirit or both
FTFY
Argh.
Just watched E4.
Shark.
Jumped.
all I could think during the interview when DCI Huntley turned the tables on AC-12 was that this just wouldn't happen, this is irrelevant, this is silly, let's turn this shit off, purlease, would this really happen, noooooo. but then the bit at the end with the pregnant AC-12 officer giving something to Hilton and I was like "WHHUUUAAAAAATTTT?".
Can't wait til next Sunday now...
The plot thickens!
So. Nick Huntley's mate/lawyer - didhedunnit?
So. Nick Huntley's mate/lawyer - didhedunnit?
Probably. It's the #1 thing to get my p*ss boiling: have us sit through hours of confusing plot-turns, trying to piece together whodunnit..... then in the last episode, introduce a completely new character, never seen before or even eluded to - aaaaaaaaand it was him. Bloody silent bloody witness is the worst for this.
I'll bet a full English 12 sided pound that it's Hilton, he's pulling all the strings and was pressing hard to convict the mysteriously "no longer in plot line" young lad wots been fitted up.
Probably. It's the #1 thing to get my p*ss boiling: have us sit through hours of confusing plot-turns, trying to piece together whodunnit..... then in the last episode, introduce a completely new character, never seen before or even eluded to - aaaaaaaaand it was him. Bloody silent bloody witness is the worst for this.
Plus 'well known actor in apparently minor role'. The significance has already been clumsily hinted at with all the shots of mobile phone contacts and mentions of 'Jimmy Lakewell'...
I'll bet a full English 12 sided pound that it's Hilton,
Dunno. Would go against his somewhat spineless behaviour to date.
[i]Would go against his somewhat spineless behaviour to date[/i]
Ha! So wouldn't fit with Line Of Duty logic eh? 😆
Quite good last night (apart from the aforementioned interview which turned experienced anti-corruption boss into blithering idiot.)
How come nobody has smelt Huntley's wrist yet?
It must smell like a gym bag full of sweaty kit and old cottage cheese by now.
Because it's not time in the story for that to conveniently but inexplicably happen...
Sometime in the penultimate episode I reckon.
I think the new recruit who fumbled in interviews, got told to up his game etc etc noticed her dodgy arm during the silly interview.
He'll now go do a lot of legwork, piece it all together and pull a blinder in the next daft interview.
Nobody will see it coming and ac12 will be on the ropes before he drops the bomb. Then it will all be too much for Huntley, she'll cave in and game over.
Boss will day well done lad, you'll fit right in. Then it ends teeing up newbies part in the next series.
If he didn't clock her arm, I could have looked at the time earlier and not now be late going back to work. Oops.
KRG[s]30[/s]13 handwriting ffs
Watched Broadchurch last night & that was just as bad, all turning up at the church everyone's all friends & found religion all of a sudden, so wanted blue van man to do a thelma & louise off the cliff in the closing shot 🙁
My folks had it on when i popped across to see them on sunday night, omg it's jamie from "the thick of it" - how can anyone watch it especially with his crap posh accent and not think of Jamie and his outbursts of violence such as the following classic :
You take the piss out of Al Jolson again and I will remove your iPod from its tiny nano-sheath and push it up your cock! Then I'll put some speakers up your arse and put it on shuffle with my ****ing fist. And every time I hear something that I don't like, which will be every time that something comes on, I will skip to the next track by crushing your balls!
Just for the record; Ifield* deserved his demise as he mutilated his mum's twanny in the first series of Bodies. Jed Mercurio's finest work.
* it wasn't him.
Bodies. Jed Mercurio's finest work.
and which
'well known actor in apparently minor role'
was a major character in, so odd that he'd come back for just a bit part. Or is that what they want us to think.
Argh.Just watched E4.
Shark.
Jumped.
They did that in the final ep of season 3, and decided to go batsh1t from there 🙄
Agreed re Bodies.
S3 LoD worked for me - the Caddie was so far in and so well connected it made sense that he would be capable of organising his escape like that.
S3 LoD worked for me - the Caddie was so far in and so well connected it made sense that he would be capable of organising his escape like that.
to be fair I went with it because of that, but it jarred in a programme that had been so well grounded, researched and plausible up until that point (I'm a copper and even spent 2 years on our version of AC12, it's one of very few UK police dramas I could watch without getting distracted from the story with "that's wrong" or "that wouldn't happen").
I must admit that I quite like Line of Duty, but the plots are getting a bit more far-fetched. Somehow I just knew Arnott would have 'just the right amount of amnesia' when he woke up, that pissed me off a bit.
Ironside, lol! 😆
It is just rubbish, utter rubbish.
Hmmmm that one wasn't too bad, here's hoping the finale is good.
[quote=kilo ]It is just rubbish, utter rubbish.
I was aware I was shouting this at the TV
How can that young detective not fail to link the fact that he gave his password to a colleague on the day his login was used to search sensitive files?
If he was 80 years old he might've given his password to a colleague on a Post It note... might've... although the sharing of passwords is not [i]that[/i] farfetched! http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/ms-outlook-recall-how-effective-data-breach-issue
Notice how "Casualty" was advertised straight after last nights ep. Obviously the audience level they're aiming for now.
How can that young detective not fail to link the fact that he gave his password to a colleague on the day his login was used to search sensitive files?
More to the point, why did no-one think to compare the time that the file was downloaded using his password with the log of the access control system that they're never done swiping themselves in and out on?
Wouldn't that show that the only person who was sneaking about a darkened office was the pregnant lady police person?
