Blue Lights
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Amazon Prime Video
BritBoxFollows rookie police officers working in Belfast, a city in which being a frontline response cop comes with unique pressures and dangers.
Amazon Prime VideoBritBoxFollows rookie police officers working in Belfast, a city in which being a frontline response cop comes with unique pressures and dangers.
Setting Blue Lights in Belfast provides layers of social and political complexity, and this makes the policing of the city a fascinating framework for drama. The legacy of sectarian violence lingers. The older and more experienced officers know what it is worth pursuing, and why, and what it is better to leave well alone. In certain areas, the police are on the back foot, unwelcome, unwanted and outnumbered.
Blue Lights is extremely good at building tension. There have been standoffs, lock-ins and a perpetual sense that something is about to go very wrong and that it is only a matter of time before everything collapses.I won’t spoil it for viewers who wish to give Blue Lights a try – and it is well worth trying – but when the horrifying crescendo eventually comes, in the penultimate episode, it has earned the shock waves that follow.
