Hastings didn't declare to anyone in authority that he received a 'bribe' of 50 grand, he admitted to being a porn addict, he admitted giving instructions to kill (shoot) a man in cold blood .. AND yet he still keeps his job after a reprimand .. no wonder OB is in such a mess ((:>) .. this series was generally underwhelming in my opinion .. let's hope there is a different old horse (plotline) to flog to death in any future series
Well, I think Mr Largos excellent theory of Arnotts knob pulling the strings moved a step closer last night. As you rightly said, Hastings admitted being a porn addict. But what if he has been recieving video instructions and having webcam meetings direct with Arnotts winky?
I enjoyed it. Brilliant acting from Adrian Dunbar as always.
Disagree with the idea that there were ‘no shocks’. We’ve all been sat here trying to figure out ‘who’ H is, and the twist being that it isn’t even a specific person.
I do think some people are expecting too much. All in all, it’s still one of the best shows on British television in years.
Avoided this this morning as decided when Series 5 started to go back to Series 1 and churn through the lot. ,managed to catch up a couple,of days ago in time for the finale.
Realise now I had started watching this from Series 2 and so much emanates from Series 1, so glad I did.
echo the thought of people expecting too much. Though not hitting the highs of previous Series, I still thought it was great. Avoiding all talk and articles through the Series really helped in that sense.
The H story has probably run its course now though and if they are to extend it further they will need to take it in a new direction. Brilliant stuff though. Of course it’s far fetched, that’s half the fun, but it is brilliantly wrote and very rare in TV do such prolonged police interviews have you so attentive.
Also watch with subtitles, you take a lot more in.
What an awful final episode. In fact, a poor series. It’s nowhere near the early stuff with Lennie James and Keeley Hawes.
Each season got better up to series 3 at which it peaked. 4 and 5 probably on a par with each other but not as good as the first 3.
Most great series can usually only sustain 2 - Fawlty Towers, The Young Ones, The Office, Fleabag. The law of diminishing returns!
That said, I would contend that series 5 of Breaking Bad is one of the tours de force of all television, and in particular episodes 13-16 are four of the greatest television programmes ever to have been made. Ozymandias is nothing short of exceptional.
Corbett was Hastings illegitimate son hence his reaction when he heard Ann Marie was his mother. That’s why his giving Corbetts wife the 50k
I thought the same when he got so upset and we do know that Ted can be economical with the truth and we assume that 50k was heading towards John Corbett's wife. Now Taxi_lad can we look at the evidence. Even though the only thing Ted gives into is temptation when it's comes to the ladies, I can't see how a 5ft 3in mouthy scouser with a bit of mix race about him can have a 6ft 3in Ginger dad considering the picture of Ann Marie looked like Sharon Horgan. Even for Jed Mercurio that is a difficult scenario but that was clearly the picture that was being drawn. So many comedic layers to LOD.
It's really difficult to make two people talking across a table dramatic but I think Adrian Dunbar and Anna Maxwell Martin did a terrific job. Poor old Hastings is unravelling as the circumstantial evidence is piling up and Anna Maxwell Martin's performance caught Carmichael's mix of ambition, hubris, malice and condescension just right.
Line Of Duty creator Jed Mercurio has spoken out to clear up some of the mysteries in the series five finale, with some shocking admissions.
Sunday night’s blockbuster finale unmasked legal counsel Gill Biggeloe as setting up AC-12 boss Ted Hastings as mysterious organised crime boss ‘H’, before a closer examination of DI Matthew Cottan’s dying declaration revealed ‘H’ was actually a clue rather than a person.
With viewers left pondering many loose ends that were left as a result, the showrunner has attempted to answer some of their questions.
Shockingly, Jed admitted that Hastings DID cause the death of undercover operative John Corbett, passing information on to imprisoned organised crime group member Lee Banks.
However, it seems his intentions for doing so were not as bad as you might think.
Speaking to Digital Spy, Jed explained: “Without actually seeing those words come out of his mouth, I think it’s pretty clear that that’s what he did do.”
Referring to what Hastings said in his interrogation by DCS Carmichael, he continued: “When he was asked how he thought Corbett would respond to having his cover blown, Hastings said that he would ‘consider his position and take refuge within the nearest police station’ – so that suggests that Hastings was following some kind of a plan, which was not to kill Corbett, but to bring him in so he could then assist the police enquiry.”
Jed also put to bed speculation Hastings was actually Corbett’s father, after a connection between Hastings and Corbett’s birth mother Anne-Marie McGillis was revealed.
He pointed out that looking at the age of the various characters indicted that was not “physically possible, because it would mean that Ted had fathered John before he’d even met Anne-Marie”.
He added that Hastings’ emotional reaction to the revelation Corbett was Anne-Marie’s son proved that “did have an intimate relationship”.
Jed also confirmed that Hastings’ had kept hold of an extra £50,000 he was given by the bent former officer Mark Moffatt, choosing to give it to Corbett’s wife “as a form of atonement”.
While ‘H’ was revealed not to be a specific person, but a clue relating to four corrupt police workers, with one still at large, viewers have still been left wondering if Hastings could still be bent.
A few clues still point at this, especially the reason as to why he disposed of his laptop, and if his misspelling of ‘definitely’ meant he was communicating with the OCG.
“Because we haven’t witnessed that, it’s something where we’re relying on the audience to make up their own mind on,” Jed said.
However, he insisted shots appearing to show him attempting to call OCG member Lisa McQueen were put in as a red herring.
Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Line Of Duty also confirmed to HuffPost UK that suspicions about Hastings had been left deliberately vague ahead of the sixth series.
Another potential plot for the next series was also opened up when OCG member Ryan Pilkington was seen applying for a job with the police, with viewers suggesting he could become the next Caddy.
Line Of Duty’s fifth series is available to watch again on BBC iPlayer, with the previous four series also on Netflix.
Final episode was shite. Drawn out, boring and inconclusive.
I definitely (sorry, definately) thought season 5 was going to be the last series so was expecting much more of a conclusion to the saga so it felt unsatisfying when that didn't happen. I think this is also partly due to the structure of the show - typically in the penultimate episode we get the fake culprit, and in the final episode the real culprit is revealed. However in this case, the whole series was building towards finding H, so when they did the "real culprit reveal" and it wasn't H, it felt quite underwhelming. The "four dots" thing also was very weak. It would have been far better to fully concluded this story line rather than leave it dangling into another series.
That said I didn't find it drawn out or boring, just unsatisfying.
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As you rightly said, Hastings admitted being a porn addict. But what if he has been recieving video instructions and having webcam meetings direct with Arnotts winky?
Would that not be deemed as porn?
Disagree with the idea that there were ‘no shocks’. We’ve all been sat here trying to figure out ‘who’ H is, and the twist being that it isn’t even a specific person.
I do think some people are expecting too much. All in all, it’s still one of the best shows on British television in years.
Realise now I had started watching this from Series 2 and so much emanates from Series 1, so glad I did.
echo the thought of people expecting too much. Though not hitting the highs of previous Series, I still thought it was great. Avoiding all talk and articles through the Series really helped in that sense.
The H story has probably run its course now though and if they are to extend it further they will need to take it in a new direction. Brilliant stuff though. Of course it’s far fetched, that’s half the fun, but it is brilliantly wrote and very rare in TV do such prolonged police interviews have you so attentive.
Also watch with subtitles, you take a lot more in.
Now Taxi_lad can we look at the evidence.
Even though the only thing Ted gives into is temptation when it's comes to the ladies, I can't see how a 5ft 3in mouthy scouser with a bit of mix race about him can have a 6ft 3in Ginger dad considering the picture of Ann Marie looked like Sharon Horgan. Even for Jed Mercurio that is a difficult scenario but that was clearly the picture that was being drawn. So many comedic layers to LOD.
Line Of Duty creator Jed Mercurio has spoken out to clear up some of the mysteries in the series five finale, with some shocking admissions.
Sunday night’s blockbuster finale unmasked legal counsel Gill Biggeloe as setting up AC-12 boss Ted Hastings as mysterious organised crime boss ‘H’, before a closer examination of DI Matthew Cottan’s dying declaration revealed ‘H’ was actually a clue rather than a person.
With viewers left pondering many loose ends that were left as a result, the showrunner has attempted to answer some of their questions.
Shockingly, Jed admitted that Hastings DID cause the death of undercover operative John Corbett, passing information on to imprisoned organised crime group member Lee Banks.
However, it seems his intentions for doing so were not as bad as you might think.
Speaking to Digital Spy, Jed explained: “Without actually seeing those words come out of his mouth, I think it’s pretty clear that that’s what he did do.”
Referring to what Hastings said in his interrogation by DCS Carmichael, he continued: “When he was asked how he thought Corbett would respond to having his cover blown, Hastings said that he would ‘consider his position and take refuge within the nearest police station’ – so that suggests that Hastings was following some kind of a plan, which was not to kill Corbett, but to bring him in so he could then assist the police enquiry.”
Jed also put to bed speculation Hastings was actually Corbett’s father, after a connection between Hastings and Corbett’s birth mother Anne-Marie McGillis was revealed.
He pointed out that looking at the age of the various characters indicted that was not “physically possible, because it would mean that Ted had fathered John before he’d even met Anne-Marie”.
He added that Hastings’ emotional reaction to the revelation Corbett was Anne-Marie’s son proved that “did have an intimate relationship”.
Jed also confirmed that Hastings’ had kept hold of an extra £50,000 he was given by the bent former officer Mark Moffatt, choosing to give it to Corbett’s wife “as a form of atonement”.
While ‘H’ was revealed not to be a specific person, but a clue relating to four corrupt police workers, with one still at large, viewers have still been left wondering if Hastings could still be bent.
A few clues still point at this, especially the reason as to why he disposed of his laptop, and if his misspelling of ‘definitely’ meant he was communicating with the OCG.
“Because we haven’t witnessed that, it’s something where we’re relying on the audience to make up their own mind on,” Jed said.
However, he insisted shots appearing to show him attempting to call OCG member Lisa McQueen were put in as a red herring.
Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Line Of Duty also confirmed to HuffPost UK that suspicions about Hastings had been left deliberately vague ahead of the sixth series.
Another potential plot for the next series was also opened up when OCG member Ryan Pilkington was seen applying for a job with the police, with viewers suggesting he could become the next Caddy.
Line Of Duty’s fifth series is available to watch again on BBC iPlayer, with the previous four series also on Netflix.
https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a27332344/line-of-duty-season-5-episode-6-explained-jed-mercurio/
That said I didn't find it drawn out or boring, just unsatisfying.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50471495
I'm up to series 4 episode 2. So 10 hrs viewing left.
are all episodes being released at once or is it a week by week job , is it on bbc ?
100% on the BBC