Holby Blue

I love a police drama, so when I saw this I decided to give it a watch. It's not a heavy police drama. Season one started good, but then it became a bit on the soapy side.

But I don't think it was supposed to by humerous. All the men are single dimension work focused neanderthals while the women are all deeply sensitive and frustrated with the men but still keep wanting to be involved with them. The crime story is light and forms a quaint backdrop for the battle of the sexes.

Amusing but not great.

I only lasted a whole 2 episodes. And even those took multiple days to watch.

The police procedure part of the story (given this is a cop show) is light, with a pretty dull story line, and very little police work actually being done. The men, as someone else has mentioned are totally one dimensional neanderthals, who lie, cheat and lie again through every interaction.

I'm all for base line sexual humour, when done in the right way, but the way it's done here, by most of the male staff, just make them look like pigs (ooh, pun), whilst the female police look like tolerant angels.

None of the antics would have been tolerated in a workplace back in 2007, especially from the female staff. Adding to the misery is the poor writing to create drama and tension, which just wouldn't happen in real life.

All in all, it makes for a rather poor cop drama, that's heavy on the forced drama and light on the cop. Thankfully it only lasted 2 seasons.

I came here to see how many seasons were available and was disappointed to find the two I recently streamed are it. I enjoyed the series. Great characters. Even though the story lines are serious - police officers have to deal with the worst of humanity - but the writers included humor where possible. I seriously enjoyed the series and will miss the characters.

The initial episodes were promising, but the second season is worse than daytime soap. MacAninch and Zoe Lucker characters have been reduced to banal soap opera. Pathetic. The lesser characters such as James Hiller's are the only saving grace of this seies.