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A young agile brain will help in recalling the deluge of character names and their interconnections. The list builds remorselessly through the series.
This excellent piece might make you look at the finale more positively...
https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/line-of-duty-series-6-episode-7-review-h-unmasked-at-last/
https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/line-of-duty-series-6-episode-7-review-h-unmasked-at-last/
Billy the Fish
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Pint of Ale and a Burger
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Yes,I got the impression from all the mugshots on the office wall that there had been more than just a few persons of interest.
I felt kind of glad that I had jumped in with a fresh pair of eyes at this point of proceedings.
I have to watch from the beginning now to confirm if my suspicions are correct about what I saw this evening.
I can see how people have got so into this.
It really gets the old brain cells ticking over.
A well written article by Mercurio.
Or, Buckells is taking the can, protecting higher corruption (Osborne, H, politicians)?
The basis of the next season.
- Jan 3, 2012
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The theory in this household is that the Anna Maxwell-Martin character has been “turned” by Hastings and will quietly take up the cause on his behalf, with Kate on her team..... and maybe Steve if he sorts the medical thing.
Hastings is appealing his forced retirement.
I think and hope he’s part of it too. Perhaps a surprise entrant a couple of episodes in?
Wardy's twin
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- Oct 21, 2014
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thought it was poor - writers/bbc realise they are on to a winner so bottled the last episode....
Pint of Ale and a Burger
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Yes I thought something similar except I felt that Hastings and Anna Maxwell Martin both have some knowledge about what is really going on,but not from speaking to each other directly,most likely from another source who is briefing them both separately.
So they both know ,that they both know,without actually saying they both know.(if that makes sense)
Whatever is going on ,Hastings has dropped all the turd in her part of the camp so it will be interesting to see how she deals with that.
Sid in the Sharknado
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Given the massive ratings this series has reportedly gathered, what was everybody watching when the earlier (to be blunt, much better) series came out?
Still liked it, even if pretty much nothing of interest happened in the last episode. Makes a change from the last episode of a Mercurio series being resolved by everybody running around shooting at one another though.
Still liked it, even if pretty much nothing of interest happened in the last episode. Makes a change from the last episode of a Mercurio series being resolved by everybody running around shooting at one another though.
££££ milking it for more series.
Giving a false ending for now that Buckles was the last corrupt individual.
I’ll be glad if it does continue.
London Irish
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It clearly said Buckells wasn’t the last corrupt individual but was protected by higher ups. Ted explicitly said this. The point is that corruption is structural and ongoing, not a result of the dull one/few bad apple usual narrative. It was a clever, powerful and thought provoking ending
No that’s not the same. Mercurio is a writer, this whole thing is his world and brainchild, he can write what he likes. You can say you don’t like it but can’t say it was wrong and should have been more entertaining.
Besides, it’s so predictable, this happens with so many mega popular series, the finale always disappoints lots of people because they build it up to something it can’t ever be and come up with all sorts of far fetched predictions which never happen.
Yes, this.
Sid in the Sharknado
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Was that bit where a dieing man signalled with morse code that there were four ring leaders in the OCG infiltration of the police in the original true story?
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Stato
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- Dec 21, 2011
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Thanks for that. Very good article. I liked the end. It was far more grounded than LoD's usual silly action finales and put the personal and professional integrity mantra of Hastings front and centre.
Neville's Breakfast
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I think a lot of people feel a little duped. We have been built up by the writer to expect the unexpected. That’s a large part of why the series is so popular. To then claim (as others on this thread have done) that it’s actually realism that is important seems a bit weak. At the end of the day it is a drama competing with other dramas and if it has been overhyped that is the fault of the writer himself and the BBC, not the consumers of the drama. I really enjoyed the first couple of series but am not going to keep watching just to hear sanctimonious twaddle about corruption being endemic. If I wanted that I would watch a documentary. Not everybody watches a drama simply because it confirms some pre existing political prejudice such as, in this case, police corruption.
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Skaville
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Looking at Davidson in her idyllic stone cottage in the woods, donning her pristine Icelandic knitwear (costs a bomb) and canoodling with that fit redhead made witness protection look wonderfully glamorous.
Agreed. Yes it was easily the 'worst' final episode in terms of dramatic resolution, but it was actually very clever. All the while we were thinking that 'H' was some criminal mastermind controlling his evil empire from a high-tech lair like some Bond villain - and he turned out to be bumbling moron who was at best just a fixer and a go-between linking various gangs. One could argue that it was good that it wasn't all neatly wrapped up: "Oh look it was the Chief Constable after all! Now they've cleaned up all the corruption!" Life doesn't work like that, it isn't all neat packages and nicely tied-up loose ends, and the downbeat ending, whilst somewhat unsatisfying, was at least different. I'm not sure if I want another series or not.
Those of us of a certain age who remember 'The Prisoner' will remember the debate was always about who was 'Number One'. In the end it was never revealed and at the time we all felt cheated, but later we realised that there was no individual as 'Number One', it was just a concept.