BLUE LIGHTS S2 - mon 9pm BBC 1 - tv pace. NO SPOILERS

[Blondeshavemorefun]

Yah. It’s back. S2 !!!

whoop

starts mon 15th and on weekly

i really enjoyed s1

The new trailer ( gives a fresh look at the show's returning characters, including new PSNI recruits Grace (Siân Brooke), Annie (Katherine Devlin) and Tommy (Nathan Braniff), alongside Stevie (Martin McCann), Helen (Joanne Crawford) and Sandra (Andi Osho).

Fans also get a glimpse of new characters for season two, including new Constable Shane (Frank Blake) and siblings Lee (Seamus O'Hara) and Mags (Seána Kerslake).

The new episodes will follow Grace, Annie and Tommy a year after the events of the last season, with the officers faced with a gangland feud that culminates in a "violent and devastating confrontation".
"Tensions are high," Helen says in the trailer. "We're policing an area that could explode at a
ny minute, and we're flying completely blind."

s1 is on iPlayer if haven’t seen and def need to watch it before s2

thread here for s1

BLUE LIGHTS. BBC 1. MONDAY 9pm. TV PACE NO SPOILERS
http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/telly_addicts/4767651-blue-lights-bbc-1-monday-9pm-tv-pace-no-spoilers (http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/telly_addicts/4767651-blue-lights-bbc-1-monday-9pm-tv-pace-no-spoilers)

Dixon was killed by Lee - the muscle he had with him today pulled the trigger. He was in the house at the end last week. Lee had the keys to the house and so the guy was waiting there. It’s the same guy who got stopped with the money in his taxi.

Im from Belfast & think Charlie sounds fine.

Oh. It was his heavy

Thanks

I don't find it confusing at all, except trying to remember plot points from series 1. I remembered Jonty/Jen though, and Happy. But had to Google what happened to Gerry

As someone said above, he was born in Belfast too. I looked him up because so often people who know comment on how good accents are or not. I had no idea. DH laughed at me, but I never watched Casualty, I'd been aware of the character though and presumed that was his natural accent.

I laughed when Aislyn was talking about secondment and said it makes where you are look like the Surrey Hills' or something like that.

Wonder if Sandra will go back and read Jonty's letter now?

The suspicious death was a hard watch. I thought Stevie's compassion juxtaposed with Grace being a former social worker was well done and it was nice to see him extending sympathy to the bereaved man and a nice change from all the violence and gang stuff.

How can you forget what happened to Jerry

Blondes sobs

I found this series a bit underwhelming.

It started to get a bit soap opera towards the end as well. And I still miss Jerry.

I don't like what they've done to Jen's character. I preferred her a bit hard edged and moaning . That seemed more like real people. This damascene conversion doesn't work for me.

Something about Jonty's new look is a bit pound shop Jamie Dornan!

I thought this was more the real Jen - she was a completely peteified fish out of water as a police officer but now knows what she is doing and is good at it!

This is the non-spoiler thread! I'm watching it week by week at the moment, so don't want to know how it ends.

I thought the non-paramilitary storyline with the terminal patient dying from a morphine overdose was really well done. Stevie was brilliant with the bereaved husband/suspected mercy killer.

Stevie is so lovely.

I think the thing about Blue Lights is it does tread this fine line between gritty police procedural and soap. Generally stays the right side of sap.

Plus surely the 'soapy' bits happen too - my dad was a police officer & his colleagues (& him sadly) were all shagging each other etc and there was definitely affair dramas going on constantly. Plus some stories he told of calls he'd been to that required social services intervention were heartbreaking. It can't be gritty all the time or no one would survive!

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g Jerry died last series.

I assumed it was the 'found this series underwhelming' comment as that sounds like the poster is passing comment on the full series, not Gerry dying.

Yes, that was what I meant.

I think it’s the best thing on TV at the moment. I can’t work out if Shane (I think that’s the new copper) is a baddie or just trying to impress Murray

The whole thing with Dixon and The Loyal etc. is quite messy - I suppose that's real life, but I am finding it hard to follow.

The assisted dying storyline was well done (and very topical) but seemed a bit random amongst the other stuff going on.

Looks like Newtownabbey. Sorry if this has already been answered. Just binged S1 and starting S2. I grew up in Newtownabbey and went to school in North Belfast....loving this.. And I sooo miss Gerry. Richard Dormer is brilliant as Terry Hooley in the Good Vibrations film.

He looks so like Kenneth Branagh to me that I googled to see if they were related!

Same

I hope he's not a baddie

Ha ha, yes - DH and I are calling him 'Kenneth'.

I thought that too!

I'm very much enjoying this series, and I like the fact there are 'human element' stories interwoven with the gang/terrorist stories, as well as the story involving Jen, which combines both of those themes.

There are so many series, they all start to merge into one unless the seasons are close together. It was a year ago! I can't remember what I watched last week half the time.

@shearwater2 when a subsequent series starts I usually go back to the episode recaps from before, just for a quick refresh. It helps.

Gerry dying was one of those drama events that stunned everyone at the time. It was all the more memorable because Sandra, his wife, now widow, had to process the person responsible. I think she’s custody sergeant. Because we’d seen the love in their relationship, the emotions in that scene were incredible and so well portrayed. I think I actually cried. It’s a scene that drama students should learn from.

@shearwater2 we were in shock he died

Tho sadly also knew he died as someone posted a spoiler when they had binged the series instead of weekly and posted about his death