Line of Duty

[GodIsADeeJay81]

Not having it that Buckles is H..

That ending has naffed me off

[Wile E Coyote]

emperors new clothes series.

[CaptainKirk]

I have always enjoyed this programme but this series it has obviously been consumed by it’s own publicity and disappeared up it’s own backside. What a load of underwhelming crap.
The creator of this show needs to get back to good storytelling and stop trying to tick every box going.

[Rileybobs]

Can’t help but think that the writers should have put less thought into planting elaborate red herrings and more into bringing the storyline to a satisfying conclusion.

[Steve1956]

Can’t help but think that the writers should have put less thought into planting elaborate red herrings and more into bringing the storyline to a satisfying conclusion.

That ending was utter b0llocks.

[Buxtonclaret]

Well that was a Christmas balloon at the end of February ending.

[Duffer_]

Do you really think that is the end? There is enough left to bring it to a more satisfying conclusion. That is the problem with this kind of model though: the writer has to leave a plausible ending whilst hinting at a better one to come. This covers both eventualities, of another series being commissioned, or not. The risk is that it meanders and loses artistic integrity in the process. As a viewer I've got one more series in me to nail Osborne, clarify Carmichael, and resolve Ted, Kate & Steve. Anything else is failure.

[Rileybobs]

Do you really think that is the end? There is enough left to bring it to a more satisfying conclusion. That is the problem with this kind of model though: the writer has to leave a plausible ending whilst hinting at a better one to come. This covers both eventualities, of another series being commissioned, or not. The risk is that it meanders and loses artistic integrity in the process. As a viewer I've got one more series in me to nail Osborne, clarify Carmichael, and resolve Ted, Kate & Steve. Anything else is failure.

Of course there is still more scope with the ‘institutionalised’ corruption. But tonight’s episode brought a conclusion to the storyline centred on the question of who is H.

I enjoy the show but it’s definitely been caught up in the hype. It has become a parody of itself, relying on formulaic police speak, one liners and a fair amount of wooden acting. Good entertainment without a doubt, but hardly a masterpiece.

[ŽižkovClaret]

Over promoted, incompetent lying lazy randy sod at the head of all things? Who'd have thunk it

[huw.Y.WattfromWare]

It was a flat ending but are folk more upset cos they didn’t get the Mr Big they expected? As said this fella is not bright enough to be top of the tree leaving it open for another series. I just hope it doesn’t become a soap, it is halfway there now.
As Buckells said there are multiple OCGs with bent cops in all of them.

[THEWELLERNUT70]

After series 5 Mecurio had season 6 green lit with the option of a season 7. He's hardly going to kill his golden goose a season early. The hype train definitely hasn't helped this series though and it has lead to people thinking this would be the end.

It's like offering Robbie Brady an option to extend his contract for a further season, he'll definitely take it

[DCWat]

I expected to see much more involvement with Carmichael in the last episode - her part in it (which she has played brilliantly in previous episodes over the last two series) was somewhat weak and a bit of a damp squib.

[CrosspoolClarets]

Agree with Carmichael looking odd by not getting involved when all kinds of big arrests and interviews were going on. The biggest arrest in the history of the force said Hastings, or something to that effect.

If this thing is true about the OCGs offing that guy in Spain on their own, they would have needed major police help, so that would make Buckells less the mastermind and more the guy being threatened like Davidson was. Implausible he was the orchestrator - too thick, and too nervous (he wasn’t meant to be faking it when his hand was shaking pulling out his teabag in jail when that solicitor was bumped off).

There had to be a big beast above him somewhere in the force. It was a let down that the series didn’t make it clear due to seemingly ambiguity about a 7th series.

[SingaporeClarets]

The ending was supposed to be a dig at Boris with the comments on integrity and owning up to mistakes.

Happy Valley series 1 also pointed towards OCGs but that was left unresolved as the real drug pushers were never shown on screen, only the bad guy getting bumped off which proved that he was also being manipulated.

Cul de sac TV.

[TheFamilyCat]

Agree with Carmichael looking odd by not getting involved when all kinds of big arrests and interviews were going on. The biggest arrest in the history of the force said Hastings, or something to that effect.

If this thing is true about the OCGs offing that guy in Spain on their own, they would have needed major police help, so that would make Buckells less the mastermind and more the guy being threatened like Davidson was. Implausible he was the orchestrator - too thick, and too nervous (he wasn’t meant to be faking it when his hand was shaking pulling out his teabag in jail when that solicitor was bumped off).

There had to be a big beast above him somewhere in the force. It was a let down that the series didn’t make it clear due to seemingly ambiguity about a 7th series.

Thinking back, that prison cell scene is a bit odd. In series 5, the OCG never knew who the were communicating with so why would they threaten him not to rat?

[BenWickes]

Why didn't they follow up on Kate's signing off on the prison transfer. No mention of that.
I put it down to time schedule for a 2021 release.
All a bit rushed for me. The entire series was not up to it's usual standards but last nights just seemed like they tried to cram it all in.
A few anomalies you don't normally get with this show happened and it wasn't as good as usual.
Anyone else spot the wink from Hastings to Carmichael during his tirade?
Anyway. It was open ended but they can't leave it like that and no way is Buckells 'H'. BTW. That whole sequence made no sense. All too rushed.
Normally as UTC ratings go this show would be a 8/10 but this was a 6/10 overall.

[Vegas Claret]

all you lot complaining at the ending, my Mrs called it was Buckles 4 or 5 episodes ago, I told her she was talking nonsense