Ludicrous but fun, loonytunes Line Of Duty ends in madcap style

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Ludicrous but fun, loonytunes Line Of Duty ends in madcap style

May 01, 2017 - 13:24
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Once again, loonytunes Line Of Duty showcased the incredible marksmanship that seems to be a baffling requirement for all TV anti-corruption detectives. No one knows why.

Line Of Duty

Once again, loonytunes Line Of Duty showcased the incredible marksmanship that seems to be a baffling requirement for all TV anti-corruption detectives. No one knows why.

At the end of series three "calamity" Kate Fleming won the sniper of the year award by shooting a fleeing villain from a range of seven miles. Fast forward to the latest fabulously far-fetched finale and all hail Ted Hastings for gunning down one of the numerous balaclava men with pin point accuracy. Bullsey...e! He's not just a pretty face.

One of the more hilariously unrealistic aspects of the Beeb's ludicrous-but-fun police drama is the way quick-draw Ted and his all-action AC-12 squad rush around barging into serious crime investigations noisily derailing them. Very likely. 

Meanwhile, killer cop Roz Huntley didn't quite get away with framing her hapless husband Nick and landed up in jail doing a ten year stretch with one hand. Just as well, there's no point being a Plod if you can't direct traffic. Hardly a stunning revelation that rotten Roz offed forensic fall guy Tim Ifield in a struggle with a chainsaw. That's what everyone thought from day one. We deserved a more ingenious explanation.

In other news, you just knew dodgy lawyer Jimmy Lakewell was a really bad guy from the moment he called wheelchair-bound Steve Arnott "Ironside". On the PC BBC no one is allowed to mock the afflicted. Especially, if it's funny. But shock, horror... there's an ongoing conspiracy to blackmail senior officers that should keep battling Hastings and his irritatingly evangelical sidekicks in work for a fair few series.

As six complicated episodes concluded, answers and clarity were conspicuous by their absence. Although, transparent wrong 'un ACC Derek Hilton killed himself appropriately... at the end of the pier.. Or did he? This and other riddles (eg. How come Roman Catholic Hastings is a Mason?) will not be cleared up in the next series. Which will, of course, be rapturously received because the nation has been successfully programmed to masterpiece mode. It's enjoyable escapist nonsense. No more than that.