I really want to watch "Line of Duty". We don't have access to any streaming services, and the DVD rental places are closing down one by one so I was pretty excited to find it at the last DVD rental place in our area.
But we couldn't watch it past the cold open. My husband has been having a stressful time at work, and we've just heard that a friend committed suicide last week. The violence in the opening scene was just too much for my husband after hearing the bad news.
Does anyone know how typical that is of the rest of the series? I don't think we should watch it now, if it carries on like that.
My son bought me the box set of Line of Duty for my birthday last year.
He said - "You won't like this at all, but it's brilliant so you should watch it!"
He knows that my preference is for entertaining telly or action movies (think Buffy and Die Hard).
I didn't "like" Line of Duty, but I was riveted. I watched the whole of the first series on my birthday evening until silly o'clock in the morning, because I had to know what happened.
There is no light to the dark and some very unpleasant moments.
What is interesting, though, is that there is no black and white. No one is "good" and no one "bad". The people who do really bad things are usually led down a path of bad choices where they find themselves trapped into doing things they never thought they would.
Somehow you are carried with them and see how they got themselves into the position where no good choices remain.
After I had watched the whole lot (three series) I swore I would never re-watch it. But I did watch series one again and found myself sympathising with the character I had hated with a passion first time round.
That tells you something about how cleverly the boundaries are blurred.
Brilliant. But hard watching.