Line of Duty: Season 1

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BBC | BBC Two | Acorn TV | Season Premiere Date: September 28, 2014

Starring: Lennie James, Martin Compston, Keeley Hawes

Summary: DS Steve Arnott is transferred to AC-12, the anti-corruption unit, after a counter-terrorist operation goes badly wrong. He is initially assigned to investigate one of the force's most successful and charismatic officers, whose crime figures seem too good to be true.Line of Duty is a compelling police drama that takes a cynical view of aDS Steve Arnott is transferred to AC-12, the anti-corruption unit, after a counter-terrorist operation goes badly wrong. He is initially assigned to investigate one of the force's most successful and charismatic officers, whose crime figures seem too good to be true.Line of Duty is a compelling police drama that takes a cynical view of a target-driven police culture, while sympathetically portraying how basically decent individuals may find themselves drawn towards corrupt practices, misconduct and criminal behaviour.Line of Duty is a World Productions production for BBC Two.… Expand

Genre(s): Drama, Suspense

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Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E5. Episode 5
Air Date: July 24, 2012
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S1:E4. Episode 4
Air Date: July 16, 2012
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S1:E4. Shut Out
Air Date: October 19, 2014

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The Guardian Sarah Hughes

May 16, 2020

Yes, there are times when Mercurio seems to want to be David Simon just a little too much – I'm going to put the line about "coming at the king" down to Lennie James' Tony Gates being a massive Omar fan in his secret inner life – but this first episode was taut, tightly scripted and well acted all round. Read full review

Alessandra Stanley

May 16, 2020

It’s a little like “The Shield,” the FX show that starred Michael Chiklis as a corrupt cop, but it’s a lot more like “Spiral,” the sleek French crime series on Netflix that has a cult following in Britain and the United States. So basically, “Line of Duty” is the opposite of “Downton Abbey,” except in certain elemental ways: an excellent cast, skillful writing and a knack for making an exotic, unfamiliar world seem like the viewer’s second home. Read full review

Sonia Saraiya

May 16, 2020

Line Of Duty makes an excellent effort at modern British life. It does fall short in places, but I give it a lot of credit for trying. Read full review

The Telegraph Ceri Radford

May 16, 2020

I want to see what happens next to DC Gates. Lennie James brilliantly captured the odious ambiguity of his character: a man who is part hero, part the sort of person who looks at a crime scene littered with dismembered body parts and concludes “it’s big, it’s sexy, and that makes it mine”. Read full review

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Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: September 28, 2014
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  S1:E5. Episode 5
  Air Date: July 24, 2012
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  S1:E4. Episode 4
  Air Date: July 16, 2012
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  S1:E4. Shut Out
  Air Date: October 19, 2014
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  S1:E3. Episode 3
  Air Date: July 9, 2012
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  S1:E2. Episode 2
  Air Date: July 2, 2012
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  S1:E1. Episode 1
  Air Date: June 25, 2012