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35 of 37 people found the following review helpful:
Final , slightly inferior series , of rivetting Police drama, 17 Mar 2006
So the people who released this series on DVD have seen good sense and released the whole series. Originally transmitted in 1994 the third and last series of the excellent “Between The Lines” failed to live up the standards set by the previous two series. But they were very, very high standards indeed.
The central cast of characters are still all there, Tony Clark ( Neil Pearson) Mo ( Siobhan Redmond) and Harry ( Tom Georgeson) but after the cliff hanger episode for the end of the previous series the producers had left the characters with no where to go , but out of the Police Force. This severely compromises the drama as one of its chief precepts was the internal politics and sociological strife caused by working for The Metropolitan Police. Especially within the complaints division. Once that was removed it neuters the dynamics and tension between the characters and essentially becomes just another detective series, all be it a very good one.
Having left the force Clark, Harry and Mo team up as a detective agency, a fairly flimsy premise to keep the interplay between the characters alive it would seem but made believable by the quality of the writing and the terrific performances. Effectively they have formed a slightly dysfunctional family with shifting parameters at play, after all Tony Clark was once the boss and now he isn’t. Reduced to investigating fraud in Hotels ( Opening episode “Foxtrot Oscar” ) and other by comparison to their former careers, petty shenanigans, they end up by the end of the series ( A double header entitled “The End User”) becoming involved in some very dangerous fraught business involving paramilitary groups . Clark has become very romantically occupied with Sarah Teale (The magnificently named Sylvestra Le Touzel) and might even have fallen out of love with himself and in love with her, while Harry has gone off the rails a bit following the death of his wife but the impending peril that this work has involved them in has made them all, particularly Clark, realise how precious what they have is. The series ends on a sombre ambiguous note. It never came back so we never found out what became of Tony and Harry. For mainstream television this was seriously intelligent down beat stuff.
The picture quality , as on the previous box sets isn’t that great, and one or twice the censor steps in which for a release rated 15 is preposterous. I would quite like to step in the censor some where tender. Still petty moans aside I’m just glad some body had the sense to release the full run of this under -rated superb drama at all. Give that man / woman a chocolate Noddy.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
A Great Series, 9 Jun 2007
I found Season 1 slightly disappointing - until the last few episodes, from then on it gets better and better.
Season 2 is awesome - after watching each episode you realize that you just saw something amazingly good.
Season 3 - what can I say ? Absolutely Great - it is even better than Season 2 : Perfect.
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9 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
My favourite of the 3 series, 8 April 2006
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This was always my favourite series of Between The Lines..I have a huge crush on Tom Georgeson and we see much more of his character, Harry Naylor, in this series than in the previous two. I've treasured my video copies for years.I always thought we're meant to believe that Tony and Harry are killed at the end...
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5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
Get Season One and Two, but forget season Three, 8 Mar 2007
I really enjoyed the first two seasons, but this one has been oh so disappointing. It really does seem that they are clutching at straws to keep it going and with some quite absurd plots that I assume are meant to 'sex it up'.
Great actors, but they should have called it quits at the end of the second year.
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