Sunday 5 May 2019

Line of Duty V (2019 Jed Mercurio)

Directed by John Strickland again. And Sue Tully.

'We're being mis-directed' you think constantly through these... Love that Kate is now Steve's boss.

"There's a UCO in the OCG - at AC-12 we're looking for ED-905", etc. You can't help laughing. In this spirit the show should really be called LOD.

Right after this the suspect tries to run away, and it's funny!
Not more Balaclava people!
With Stephen Graham, Anna Maxwell Martin, Rochenda Sandall, Tony Pitts, Aiysha Hart, Polly Walker.

Is it Hastings? Isn't it? Is it? Isn't it? Like ping pong...

Loved ep. 4's scene between Corbett and the gang - all attention and tension is on the gun on the table. Then just when you think the scene's going to go one way...

Then the hour and a half finale is all interviews. There's a couple of nice turnarounds (e.g. Polly Walker realising the search of Hastings was illegal, Kate and Steve coming in with new evidence) but only of the sort you'd expect. The ending is particularly disappointing (revelation that Dot was using Morse code; and especially the play-out scenes with titles).

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