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Post by DiBiase is Good on May 5, 2019 16:49:52 GMT -5
Anyone else watch this Show? It’s one of the most tense TV shows I’ve ever seen and the Series 5 finale did not disappoint. They managed to have a 90 minute episode which took place mostly in an interview room absolutely riveting. I love the continuity over a seven year run. They keep having callbacks to previous episodes and that the mouthy little kid from the first series is now an even bigger little shit.
The only thing that pissed me off. The adverts for it said “from the makers of Bodyguard”. NO! Bodyguard was from the makers of Line of Duty.
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Post by SmashTV on May 5, 2019 17:34:57 GMT -5
Agreed. I’ve watched since series 1 and for people to jump on it due to The Bodyguard is a bit galling. It was everything I expected and more. It got to the point this series where I trusted no one, and that Hastings being H was such an obvious red herring that I expected it to be a double bluff and he WOULD be H!
Roll on the next series.
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Post by SmashTV on May 5, 2019 17:38:01 GMT -5
Is this the first year it’s been on BBC1, incidentally? I know it began on BBC2, and BBC1 has a habit of stealing their more ‘mainstream’ hit shows like The Apprentice, but if seemed to get more coverage this year.
Maybe that’s the Bodyguard effect!
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2019 18:18:50 GMT -5
See I watched the Bodyguard and loved it until the last episode, which so throughly pissed me off. Then I watched the first season of Line of Duty on Netflix and hated it. Absolutely hated it. I’ve been told over and over again, this is the best show on British tv and I don’t get it. It so clearly wants to be the British The Wire, with all the depth,insight and agonising beauty it contains. But it misses the mark due to such an over reliance on tired cliched dialogue, overly melodramatic cuts and music choices and an overwhelming sense of self importance. The missus and I were watching it this morning and playing guess the cliche. I saw an article that argued LoD was gender neutral and praise it for the interchangeability of dialogue between characters. But that to me sounds a. Thoroughly insulting to the concept of gender neutral and b. Underlines that all the characters talk I the same generic cliches and bland speak.
Now, all that said, I’ve been told it gets better and I’ll hold out and give it a go and watch when my emoti9ns towards it aren’t so negative, But season one of Line of Duty feels like a British Wire wannabe want to write something real, when they only know over used tropes to create a near parody of a cops show,
And, for a small thing, the editing and shot selection in the finale of the last episode of season 1 is some of the worst I’ve ever seen. It’s hilariously amateurish.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on May 5, 2019 18:50:54 GMT -5
Is this the first year it’s been on BBC1, incidentally? I know it began on BBC2, and BBC1 has a habit of stealing their more ‘mainstream’ hit shows like The Apprentice, but if seemed to get more coverage this year. Maybe that’s the Bodyguard effect! Series 4 was on BBC One too. A random bit on trivia, episodes 5 and 6 of this series were directed by Sue Tully, who played Michelle Fowler in EastEnders for years.
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Post by SmashTV on May 6, 2019 2:57:51 GMT -5
I guessed as much! I knew she’d gone into directing, so it’s good to see her at the helm of something so big. She seems happy to remain out of the limelight, so good on her for making a successful transition.
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