
Blue Lights review: Forget the drugs, crime and death... Belfast policing's a piece of cake, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS
Daily MailBlue Lights Rating: Cops eat doughnuts. On the streets of Belfast, as the crime drama Blue Lights returned, PCs Stevie and Grace were bonding over a bake during a quiet moment on patrol. On the streets of Belfast, as the crime drama Blue Lights returned, PCs Stevie and Grace were bonding over a bake during a quiet moment on patrol The Beeb has a grand wee tradition of policemen from Northern Ireland — Adrian Dunbar as Line Of Duty's Supt Hastings, James Nesbitt's morally ambiguous DCI Brannick in Bloodlands. Stevie and Grace had already found a homeless heroin addict dead from an overdose, while the unit's new man-on-a-mission, DS Canning was enlisting rookie PC Tommy Foster to bring down a drugs baron and former terrorist gangster. Stevie and Grace had already found a homeless heroin addict dead from an overdose, while the unit's new man-on-a-mission, DS Canning was enlisting rookie PC Tommy Foster to bring down a drugs baron and former terrorist gangster While the era of the Troubles is over, there's a brooding sense that sectarian pressures are still bubbling below the surface.
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