Line of Duty finale: Have we just sat through our final Ted talk? TV Review: After ‘a mental 10 years’ it seems mad to quit the UK’s most popular drama
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Season six of Line of Duty achieved the highest ratings for a UK drama in 13 years. Photograph: Steffan Hill/BBC/PA
Season six of Line of Duty has concluded amid levels of hype that felt like the Twitter equivalent of a convoy of police sirens screaming past your house. And it has given fans what they craved by unmasking nefarious nasty “H”. But if AC-12 finally have their man, what next for Superintendent Ted Hastings (Adrian Dunbar) and DIs Kate Fleming (Vicky McClure) and Steve Arnott (Martin Compston)?
With a potential season seven already having been teased by the BBC, plenty of people aren t willing to accept that Buckells is truly H and some people think they already have the real answer to the million-pound question.
As it happens, there is a decent proportion of people on Twitter who think the real man behind the fall guy is Chief Constable Osborne, who, for most, would be much more plausible than the bumbling Buckells - seriously, we ve read that phrase about 80,000 times today.
After that there has to be a series 7.
Still convinced Osborne is the top dog. #LineOfDuty
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Nigel Boyle, Line of Duty’s DCI Ian Buckells: ‘Being H was a complete surprise to me’
The identity of the BBC police drama’s central villain has been revealed. But how did the man himself find out – and was he happy?
3 May 2021 • 5:28pm
DCI Buckells is revealed to be The Fourth Man – or the closest thing – in the Line of Duty finale
Credit: BBC
Nigel Boyle has barely slept. Partly out of the excitement, of having been revealed, 12 hours previously, to be the bent copper who AC-12 – and impassioned Line of Duty fans – have been hunting for years. But also because he has a three-week-old daughter, who must not suspect at all that her father is DCI Ian Buckells, aka the Fourth Man, aka H, aka the most famous baddie in British television history.
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The weeks appear to have flown by and we re already discussing the final episode of the latest series of Line of Duty.