The return of the crime thriller about a police anti-corruption unit. More stuff has happened since the bit below.
Watching at terrestrial pace for S6. If you're bingeing, reign in the spoilers.
DI Lindsay Denton is the sole survivor of the ambush of a police convoy in which three of her colleagues are killed and a witness is seriously injured. AC-12's commanding officer Ted Hastings assigns new recruit Georgia Trotman to work alongside Steve Arnott on the investigation, and suspicions are soon raised about Denton. Starring Adrian Dunbar, Keeley Hawes, Martin Compston and Jessica Raine.
Talk about it here. Sundays at 9pm on BBC1.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00yzlr0
Riveting stuff only slightly spoilt by some shonky camera work.
Good to see this back, though I haven't yet watched episode 1.
Avoid the link at #2 for the moment MELSM.
Thanks, Slasher, I just sailed past when I saw 'spoilers'. It's a problem when so many of us probably watch these good TV things over several days rather than at time of broadcast.
#3 was it NYPD Blue that started all that camera-fidget? Just stand still ffs.
It can be done well. Can't think of an example off the top of my head though.
Any thread like this will have spoilers. Best not to click until you are up to date. One of the main characters (you thought) won't see episode 2, for example.
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Festen.
Didn't watch that, Shads. I think that when it is done well it is unnoticeable, just part of the ebb and flow of the whole.
We turned off The Thick of It after 5 minutes because we were starting to get motion sickness from the hand-held camera work.
Cracking stuff. I followed it with Suspects on Channel 5. More cop action with even more shaky-cam found footage type naturalism. Not bad either.
I had to look hard to check if that was really Keeley Hawes. The tension was well paced and we were blindsided most satisfactorily. What a horrible outcome for one character in a shocking scene.
I've always liked Adrian Dunbar.
I actually thought she looked younger and nicer without all the slap. But no we really don't want to be going down the road of actors looking perfect even when playing people who really shouldn't look like models.