Television

„Blue Lights“ (season 3)

Since it launched in 2023, critics have cast around for shows resembling Blue Lights. It’s usually a good sign when nothing much springs immediately to mind. There are traces of Line of Duty’s intense pocketbook precision. Its ensemble cast maintaining an uneasy balance between work and domesticity occasionally recalls 1980s US classic Hill Street Blues. But increasingly, it bears comparison to HBO’s Baltimore epic The Wire. It is constructing a loving, despairing, characterful portrait of a city. It examines dysfunctional municipal systems through the perspectives of the people trying to work within them. Each season builds on the work of the last, creating a richer, fuller picture. And it finds big contexts for its smallest constituent parts. To borrow The Wire’s tagline, in Blue Lights, all the pieces matter.

Phil Harrison, The Guardian

Und hier noch mein Serienrückblick:

Deep Watching 2025 (und ein bisschen davor) –
masterclass serial storytelling 

1. Blue Lights Season 3
2. Adolescence
3. Families like Ours – nur mit euch
4. Criminal Record
5. Dying For Sex
6. John Sugar
7. Blue Lights Season 1
8. 1883
9. A Thousand Blows
11. Blue Lights Season 2
12. Pluribus
13. Spuren
14. Dope Thief 

(m.e.)