BLOODLANDS BBC 1 sun 21 Feb - 9pm no spoilers - at weekly tv pace

[Blondeshavemorefun]

James nesbitt pays a detective hunting an evasive killer who he believes Murdered his wife

Who has been missing over 20yrs ago and presumed dead but no body ever found

New case haunts him when a new abduction happens

4 part series

Yes, or better still try and pin the deaths on one of the deceased. Obviously before burying them in their shallow grave.

Would the intelligence lot not have investigated Emma’s disappearing without trace a bit more? I appreciate a lot of people went missing at the time but they probably had access to more information than the police and would know more of what was going on. Would they not have noticed then they hadn’t seen her in 3 weeks? Unless she was undercover or something.

Just finished catching up with it (I fell asleep during the last 15 mins last night!). I won't be watching S2, if there even is one. Dreadful nonsense!!

I would watch S2 if it didn't have James Nesbitt in it.

Promote Niamh and Birdy, keep Twomey and Dinger, junk JN and daughter - investigate something else.

@CongealedCrags

I would watch S2 if it didn't have James Nesbitt in it.

Promote Niamh and Birdy, keep Twomey and Dinger, junk JN and daughter - investigate something else.

Yes, I can really do without Izzy and Daddy. Definitely keep the rest of the team.

@ColonelCathcart

Would the intelligence lot not have investigated Emma’s disappearing without trace a bit more? I appreciate a lot of people went missing at the time but they probably had access to more information than the police and would know more of what was going on. Would they not have noticed then they hadn’t seen her in 3 weeks? Unless she was undercover or something.

Yes, there's no way a British Army officer could disappear without investigation.

Were we supposed to be left with the impression that the key players in the police knew exactly what had happened, but this way JN/Twomey's own shady dealings were covered up

This is the best explanation I've seen 😄.

I also thought the 'Line of Duty starts next week' sticker up in the right hand corner of the screen was a bit off. It might as well have said, 'Don't worry, only another 60 mins of these wee gobshites, then it's Ted Time.'

@PintPot

The only explanation is that the NI tourist board wanted to buy a huge advert for 2021/2 staycations, and someone at the BBC said, 'Fine, give us the cash, tell us where you want the lingering panning shots, and we'll knock up a script over the weekend.'

If you slow it right down, there are probably single frames with AIR BNB STRANGFORD LOUGH in between the glaring-through-the-blinds.

I think you're right. It's just a shame that the programme makers forgot the bit of the brief which said 'showcase NI in all seasons' so they had to sneak that bonkers mountains-in-winter bit in to Episode 4.

@OliviaBensonsEyebrow

Were we supposed to be left with the impression that the key players in the police knew exactly what had happened, but this way JN/Twomey's own shady dealings were covered up

This is the best explanation I've seen 😄.

Indeed But even so, there would be a current-day post-mortem and all the rest, would there not?

And Keenan was a somebody, not a nobody. Dr Tori was a somebody, not a nobody.

How does it get swept under the carpet in 2021?

It's all very ... unsatisfactory.

Total shite.

I don't believe the story he told the doctor. I think he just knew he didn't want to kill her in the next room from his daughter so did what he could to calm things down by getting down sympathy for the supposed kidnapping of his wife which turned out to be her leaving him.

I agree about the close range second shot to the head of Pat. And why when it had been narrowed down to Goliath had to be one of three still serving officers that line of enquiry suddenly got thrown out because it wasn't Jackie....

How did Tom explain knowing where to go to intercept Pat hiding the body of the doctor?

Actually all the plot holes just really added up to spoil it for me. I think I can deal with a few but every week there seemed to be more and more. I won't bother with the second season either.

So disappointed!
Lost interest by last episode

@PintPot

I also thought the 'Line of Duty starts next week' sticker up in the right hand corner of the screen was a bit off. It might as well have said, 'Don't worry, only another 60 mins of these wee gobshites, then it's Ted Time.'

Indeed, thanks goodness we'll be back to cooking diesel and this heap of cack is finished!

This won’t mean much to many on the thread ... but all I could think of when McGovern broke out the Gaeilge was Ulster Irish is very hard to understand .Flashbacks to the Leaving Cert aural exam trying to make sense of the Donegal Irish bit..

I get ya JollyGreenGiantess.

I've just finished. I won't lie, I'm not waiting with baited breath for season 2. In fact I'm not sure i followed anything in the last episode as I got distracted by James Nesbitt's extensive range of two facial expressions and keep thinking he could get a part in Zoolander 3 (That was the name of the stupid Adam Sandler film about the male model who had one expression when he posed but thought he had loads wasn't it?)

I'm not even convinced he had 2 expressions, I think the makeup dept just added extra eyebrow dye to convey "murderous anger"

No way will I be watching any second series. This one promised so much more than it delivered. Final episode was a complete waste of time.

Anyway, Lisa Dwan won't be coming back, so ... (I hope she's offered better TV parts, if she must do TV, and better direction. Less melodrama.)

Well that was tosh.

Does anyone else think Jed Mercurio is a bit Emperor's New Clothes?

I'll be watching Line of Duty because I enjoy it for the characters and their interaction etc. not because it's brilliantly thought out these days.

Jed Mercurio is very busy. Haven't read any interviews on this, but I wonder if he was just the headline lead writer and one or several someone elses actually wrote the thing?

Someone else, local to Northern Ireland, wrote it. Jed Mercurio was the executive producer. I think.

I’ve just watched the final. Boring. And there’s going to be a series 2. On what?! Very very boring.

@JollyGreenGiantess

This won’t mean much to many on the thread ... but all I could think of when McGovern broke out the Gaeilge was Ulster Irish is very hard to understand .Flashbacks to the Leaving Cert aural exam trying to make sense of the Donegal Irish bit..

That bit was ridiculous.

The chances of two NI-rared PSNI officers serving in the same unit having good enough Irish to be able to hold a reasonably complex conversation must be very slim indeed.

I’ll still watch series 6 but Line of Duty has peaked. Bodies was really good, I wish he’d do more in that vein.

I didn’t know Lisa Dwan before this, having googled her she seems like a proper thespian so I don’t know why she ended up in this rubbish.