![]() Mo risks his relationship with his father, and Tommy is put to the test. The team attempt to cover for each other during a busy night shift. Meanwhile, Angela becomes increasingly desperate. Annie wonders whom she can trust.Ī paramilitary-style assault case has Grace determined to bring the McIntyres to their knees. The police clash with MI5 agents and associates of gangster James McIntyre.Ī poisonous batch of drugs turns up across Belfast. New constables Grace, Annie and Tommy struggle with the demands of police work. Nabil Elouahabi - Joseph, an intelligence operative.Andi Osho - Sergeant Sandra Cliff, custody sergeant and Gerry's wife.Hannah McClean - Constable Jen Robinson, a fast-tracked officer for two years and the daughter of a senior officer.Joanne Crawford - Sergeant Helen McNally, the team's second-in-command.Dane Whyte O'Hara - Gordon 'Gordy' Mackle, teenager working for the McIntyres.Valene Kane - Angela Mackle, mother associated with the McIntyres. ![]() Jonathan Harden - Inspector David 'Jonty' Johnston, the leader of the response team.John Lynch - James McIntyre, the head of a republican crime family.Martin McCann - Constable Stephen 'Stevie' Neil, Grace's training officer.Richard Dormer - Constable Gerard 'Gerry' Cliff, Tommy's training officer.Nathan Braniff - Constable Tommy Foster, a fast-track probationer.Katherine Devlin - Constable Annie Conlon, a Catholic probationer.Siân Brooke - Constable Grace Ellis, a probationer and former social worker.The focus of the series is also on fellow rookies Annie (Devlin) and Tommy (Braniff), who themselves are struggling under the immense pressure of the job. One of the new officers, Grace, is a mother in her 40s, who left her job as a social worker to join the Police Service but only weeks into the job she wonders if she's made the right decision. The series follows three probationary period police officers in the Police Service of Northern Ireland assigned to the fictional Blackthorn Station in Belfast. The series was broadcast on BBC One and BBC iPlayer, premiering on 27 March 2023 it has since been recommissioned for a second series, to be filmed later this year. Plus it's nice to see someone like Holt McCallany get a break and have a fighting chance at acting stardom.Blue Lights is a television drama series, set in Belfast, Northern Ireland, following three probationary police officers of the Police Service of Northern Ireland. I think "Lights Out" is one of the best new series around the drama and tension mixed with life and bending the rules to get by is compelling and uplifting. Those themes tie in well with the life and family drama for a show of slow boiling tension. Really this series has it all especially the realism of boxing such as challenges, comebacks, brain damage, crooked politicians and greedy promoters all tied into organized crime. A good supporting and wild card role is when you see Light's father and gym trainer(played by the wonderful Stacy Keach)as dad is tough and by the book as he tries to keep both of his sons on the straight and narrow road even though he most of the time fails with that it's still compelling to watch. As his ultimate goal is a rematch with the fighter who beat him. It doesn't matter if it's taking political bribes or doing dirty work involving promoters and agents Lights and his brother will do it to survive. As you watch each episode you see that Lights is a good family man, yet to get by just like many in today's pressure economy and work life this man succumbs to temptation. On the downside his now primary source of income is his personal appearances based on his former fame plus Lights runs a training gym for up and coming boxers and he co owns this with his arrogant and shady brother(Pablo Schreiber)still Lights is a beast and his mind keeps pulling him back into the fighting ring. It's tough in the suburbs living like a middle class guy, yet he has the support of his tough and caring loving wife(played just fine by Catherine McCormack)and his three daughters are the love of his life too. Set in the Garden state of New Jersey it follows the tale of an ex heavyweight champion named Patrick "Lights" Leary(Holt McCallany I remember him from 1987's "Creepshow 2") and after his boxing life is now over Lights tries to stay afloat and travel thru life as if he were in the boxing ring. The stories and acting is top notch for a cable series. And the series has plenty of realism as it stays true to form to the boxing life of shady promoters, political payoffs and cranial damage and the most rewarding a journey towards a comeback. I have to say that of late of all the new TV series to come along this one just out on FX titled "Lights Out" is a clear winner and knockout! It's a tense and compelling drama that shows life is tough and dirty and that sometimes just to get by you have to break the rules.
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