The best TV cop shows of all time
The audience got an answer, in part because of a clue involving the recurring misspelling “definately”, but not all were satisfied. There was a sense that creator Jed Mercurio’s bravura technique – the breathless pacing, the shocking cull of crucial characters, the lingering reveals and outrageous cliff-hangers – was no longer seamless. Mercurio had woven an increasingly compressed milieu, putting together a decade’s worth of crimes and suspects, but he couldn’t engineer a genuinely satisfying conclusion. That setback needn’t overly detract from Line of Duty’s appeal. While...
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