‘Line of Duty’ Season 1 Episode 2 review
Blimey. When we said last week that we thought things were going to get a lot darker, we didn’t think it’d happen so fast, or so brutally.
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Blimey. When we said last week that we thought things were going to get a lot darker, we didn’t think it’d happen so fast, or so brutally.
Line of Duty, BBC Two’s hard-hitting new thriller series exploring the world of police corruption, continues tomorrow night.
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