James Walton

Is Jed Mercurio bored with Line of Duty?

Plus: Taskmaster makes daft stuff that doesn’t matter feel like daft stuff that does

Vicky McClure as DI Kate Fleming and Kelly Macdonald as potential wrong ‘un DCI Joanne Davidson. Credit: BBC/World Productions/Steffan Hill 
issue 27 March 2021

When a drama begins with news of a ‘Chis handler’ receiving ‘intel graded A1 on the matrix’ that causes a ‘conflab with the SFC’, it can mean only one thing: you’re watching a new series of Line of Duty. And just to confirm it, shortly afterwards a bunch of armed police carried out a raid that didn’t go to plan — possibly because it was being led by a bent copper.

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