The quality hasn't dropped, stories are still hard-hitting. An effort is being made in the direction of Community Policing. Particularly after a 13 year old smack addict we met in season one overdoses and dies.
You can't watch too many back to back because of the hand held camera and whip pans.
Unfortunately David Crellin (Wakefield) is still around - he's an unbelievable cunt.
Jack Marsden is declared unfit for duty - rather rough. (He's the one we thought was dead at the end of season one.)
You feel for poor Mel (who, you recall, we met at a party doing cocaine) as she keeps trying to make things better but they usually fuck up: never more so than in case of 14 year old girl in (thankfully positive) relationship with 20 year old. The parents are rarely shown in a good light.
Talking of light, it was shot on Digital Betacam to allow for the hand held low light filming. And you have to hand it to DP Mark Waters and his operator Richard Mahoney who are in so close they have to make decisions about who the camera should follow, and are never out of focus, and making those little push-ins to emphasize a moment - they're actually acting like editors in camera. They surely must have rehearsed each scene thoroughly.
Kenneth Glennan and Alrick Riley directed.
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