Ep 1 questions

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"laddering". adding phony charges to an arrest to inflate your case stats. If true it's interesting cause in the US they usually seek to "juke the stats" by downgrading crimes so as to make it look like there's less crime in your sector.

"Unless Alpert's covered in bacon grease, I don't think Hugo can track anything."

So far I have also just seen the first episode. I liked it enough to watch more.

I had also never heard about "laddering", but I thought it was without a doubt interesting that the police is shown in such a bad light. If the officers are not corrupt then they are at least lazy and petty and just simply don't give a damn.

Case in point was the poor old guy who had been robbed and beaten 3 or 4 times, but none of the officers care at all. All he gets is some worthless fake "empathy" from some bitchy officer.

The best thing about the show seems to be Lennie James. I couldn't quite understand though what he saw in his mistress. I didn't find her either pretty/sexy/charming/alluring/nice/brilliant enough to hold his attention at all. Not worth ruining his career over.
It also seemed to be quite easy for him to just delete official records without anyone getting suspicious.

So much for the nitpicking, let's see how it develops.

Jessica Rabbit
"I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way."

Why do you assume it's a reference to The Wire? That's really lazy. It's actually a quote from Machiavelli, whose writing predates the series just a bit.

I'm sure Jed Mercurio would have known that - all it takes is some intelligence and an education - and I'm equally sure that it is facile to assume this is a BBC take on The Wire. There were common elements, but the drug scene is the drug scene the world over.

The various police forces, like the NHS, are big bureaucracies with many wieners earning their money by making people tick boxes instead of doing their jobs. It's why Gates, who was obviously an extremely competent cop, was reduced to playing the system to get old unsolved cases TIC'd, and why that little toerag Arnott will certainly get ahead in the Job.

I was absolutely hooked on series 2 when it went out a few months ago, was delighted when I spotted series 1 on Netflix. Glad I watched them the wrong way round, don't think I would have bothered with series 2 after this. The wrong door number thing is something out of a black comedy that Armando Ianucci might write, not a gritty police drama. There's so many plot holes throughout the series and, whilst I don't know much about police procedures, so much that doesn't add up in terms of the way data can be deleted, the way coppers wander from task to task, and the way crimes are re-assigned.