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Jed Mercurio was a producer on 'Bloodlands', and the influence of 'Line of Duty' shows: check corrupt police, complicated plot, untrustworthy protagonists, elongated interview scences, and in this case, more than one character with a Northern Irish accent. In fact, the entire story is set in Northern Island, where a contemporary murder sounds echoes of the Troubles. Like 'Line of Duty', it's also very watchable, although the plotting isn't quite as clever. It's a bold move not to give the viewer a central figure to follow throughout, but also a disengaging one. But it's well put together, and supremely watchable, though a little lacking in emotional heft.

Wow... judging by a large share of unfavorable comments submitted here, "Bloodlands" isn't very popular among the viewers. Then again, most of the reviews were written after barely one (out of four) episode, and restrict to just one or two sentences stating the series is boring and awful. How reliable are those opinions? Personally, I found "Bloodlands" a compelling and well-scripted thriller mini-series, albeit with a number of shortcomings.

The series is heavy on politics, but what else do you expect from a murder-and-kidnapping story set in Northern Ireland, and jumping back and forth between April 1998 (the period leading up to the Good Friday peace agreement) and present day, where the truce between Catholics and Protestants is still very vulnerable. The kidnapping of former IRA-militant (and thoroughly unpleasant) Pat Keenan also reopens the unresolved case of the so-called Goliath murders. Those murders were committed between February and April 1998, presumably by a member of the police force, but had to be covered up in favor of the approaching peace agreement. DCI Tom Brannick lost his wife to the Goliath killer, and is now confronted again with the cold case.

There's not a whole lot of action in "Bloodlands", but the script is intelligent and full of unforeseeable twists. Especially halfway and during the finale, there are some perplexing twists. James Nesbitt in the lead role is somewhat a mixed bag. I like him as an actor, especially since his powerful role in "The Missing", and he fits the character, but his performance is wickedly uneven. All of his facial expressions, whether its rage or frustration or sadness, make it look as if he's struggling with stomach aches. Strong supportive cast, though, including Lorcan Cranitch, Charlene McKenna and Peter Ballance. And, what I definitely enjoyed most about "Bloodlands" was the Irishness; - duh! The history lessons, the trivia, the accents, and even one sequence in genuine Irish language.

In ten years of reading Imdb daily, I've never seen more unfair, inaccurate, inexplicably negative reviews of one show. After reading a few dozen reviews, my spidey senses tell me someone's running a smear campaign on BLOODLANDS. Many reviews are factually incorrect. Many other reviews here are irrationally biased and critical where it's clearly undeserved.

Nesbit's acting is good. Camera work is not "shaky," certainly not as much as NYPD BLUE. There are no glaring "plot holes." BLOODLANDS is no more or less predictable nor cliched nor boring than any other british police procedural these days. This show does not "take itself too seriously," What does that even mean?

Why are so many reviewers comparing this to LINE OF DUTY? Is that the only british police proedural they know? That's almost like criticizing BOSCH, by saying "it's certainly not THE WIRE."

For a yank, I watch a lot of british police procedurarls, and I found this one refreshingly different in that it's set in Northern Ireland of today, and how the IRA issues still affect modern policing, like that special investigative commission that handles newfound remains of victims of the pre-peace agreement violence.

The supporting cast is good, though I found the acting weak link was the character of Nisbet's boss, who was his former partner from the pre-peace agreement days when the IRA was active. Either the actor doesn't fit here, or his dialogue is particularly clunky; either way, it comes off oddly rhythmed and toned.

I don't understand why reviewers compare programs/movies. I want a variety. While I think Line of Duty is brilliant, I am still enjoying Bloodlands for the history and the stories it has to offer that, frankly, would not possible in Line of Duty.

The locations are beautiful and ones that we are not often privy to - Northern Ireland - as are the politics which involve so many layers of Irish age old problems.

So, enjoy this unique show and what it has to offer in Irish actors and story telling. I have to mention the accents that are unique to that region (of course) when we are so used to the jumble of Londons' lot.

There's been a lot of mention of James Nesbitt's closeups. Yep. There's a lot. Lucky for us he has a versatile face! And you can't miss those raven black eyebrows - they won't let you.

Also, If you're bored, there's the drinking game that you can have which involves the words "Daddy" and "Mummy".

This is an interesting series - with Northern Ireland as a character brings it up several notches.

A solid police show with a nice steady stream of twists and reveals, the second episode just dropped on ROKU and it keeps up the intrigue begun in the first. Not so complex that you need a scorecard to follow it, yet it never seems to drag or leave you looking for the FF button. I admit to being a sucker for Irish police shows and this one hasn't disappointed. Edit: I have to withdraw my enthusiasm for this series since the writers decided to make so many characters totally unlikable or dead. They had a great start but I think they dropped the ball big time. For me a show needs to have someone I can root for and they've left me with no one.

It's really upsetting to see trolls on here talking so badly about James Nesbitt.

If you don't like something he is in then simply don't watch it but please for the love of God stop saying things like "does anyone want to smash James Nesbitts face in" this is absolutely disgusting to speak about another human being like this shame on you.

Ok you don't like a series or movie that's entirely your own opinion but don't make something personal. With everything that's happened recently in the press do you really need reminding to "be kind"

Just watched the first episode and really impressed with the quality. Interesting story of a modern crime while demonstrating the difficulty of policing in NI over 20 years after the GFA.

James Nesbit just irritates, his side kick was better. Formulaic, nothing new. Bored. Line of Duty is 10 times better.

I'm a consumer of police procedurals in general and Scandi Noir in particular, across all its guises, cultures and languages. Ignore all the bad reviews, watch for yourself, and make up your own minds. It's good by the way. Very good.

Strongly marketed by the BBC as our next lockdown obsession and coming from the same production company as "Line Of Duty", the new series of which handily starts next week, "Bloodlands" (terrible title) was a tense, exciting, if occasionally baffling and over-familiar mini-series set in Belfast and featuring a high-quality, almost exclusively Irish cast.

Top-billed James Nesbit is the gnarled old detective who returns to his homeland on the trail of a serial killer who twenty years ago threatened to derail the Good Friday Peace Agreement between the United Kingdom and Ireland by disappearing prominent persons of both political persuasions, one of whom happened to be his wife. The affair was hushed up at the time under political expediency and the believed perpetrator, code-named Goliath, never caught.

Now, an ex-IRA chief has been honey-trapped and abducted and Nesbit and his team race to rescue him, but when they do, they find at the crime scene a calling-card identical to that used by Goliath at the scenes of the old disappearances. Working under his old friend and colleague Lorcan Cranach, another who worked on the original fruitless investigation, Nesbit is forced to revisit his past, darkly, confront his present and fear for the future, this in the form of his doted-upon daughter as he leads his team in this new investigation.

It's impossible watching this not to do a read-across to "Line Of Duty", from the brooding background music, a plot to frame a DCS, including a particularly intense interrogation by a female Internal Affairs supremo, the serpentine twists in the ever-deepening tale and an "L.O.D."-type "didn't-see-that-coming" moment which in this series occurs at the end of episode two. Even the personnel seems naggingly familiar at times, none more so than Vicky McClure lookalike Charlene McKenna as Nesbit's intuitive second-in-command.

Besides that shocking scene, there were several other tense set-piece extended sequences, like the chase to find the kidnapped victim, the excavations of a burial site on a remote island, the abduction of Nesbit's daughter, the fitting-up of Cranach's character and the final denouement which included another dramatic shooting.

I appreciated the relative concision in reducing the story to four as opposed to the more usual six episodes of this type of fare and also welcomed the Northern Ireland casting and settings. In the end though I found the narrative a bit too impenetrable and far-fetched to fully connect with what I was seeing. At times, I was too actively conscious of being manipulated by events as well as never quite escaping the familiarity of certain characters and tropes from that other show.

James Nesbit acted with a sort of nervous energy I didn't always think sat well with his rather one-dimensional character but Lorcan Cranach was better as his boss, who gets reluctantly sucked into events and I was also impressed by McKenna, slightly underused as the perceptive D.S. McGovern, Chris Walley as the keen-to-impress, geeky young lapdog cop and Lisa Dwan as the mysterious woman who links the past and present crimes. At one point too, I half-expected to see the rest of the "Derry Girls" cast make an appearance but that settled down about halfway through.

A credible, creditable drama, not quite one to get obsessed by, but better than much of what passes for entertainment on television these days, although I suspect it will fade in the memory as series 6 of you-know-what gets underway..

The draw was James Nesbitt and a UK Crime Drama. This one takes you on an unexpected path. It's a great murder mystery set in Ireland's Troubles. Great performances. Interesting twists. I give this series an 8 (great) out of 10. {Police Procedural}

It had the potential to be great but ended a pretty poor mini series. By the final episode of given up and lost patience.

Nesbitt was awful throughout. His facial expressions were so cliché and he over acted everything. Usually like him but he was dreadful in this.

The plot tries to be too clever with too many twists and turns. It's just not worth the watch when there's so much other quality TV out there.

Surgeon Tori Matthews is asked a question on the causes of blurred vision from (at the time) stranger Inspector Tom Bannick, whilst walking through the foyer of her hospital. She suggests the cause might be syphilis. As an ex medic, producer Joe Mercurio must not have read the script if he allowed this appalling error. Even lay folk know that cataracts, migraine, stroke and many more problems may affect eyesight and no consultant would throw away a diagnosis in such circumstances.

There was some really strange dialogue in this show. Police asking for evidence and then explaining that this evidence could be crucial to solving the case it by far the stupidest thing I've hurt on telly in a long time.

Kept me interested enough to watch the 4 eps and bar the random faces from the lead male actor it was watchable , just not something I'll think about again

Not a James Nesbitt fan, but here he excels. And, I have no interest in "The Troubles" as they were called in Northern Ireland. But - it fits in perfectly with the story line here. If you are s fan of UK crime, you should like this one.

Pretty poor overall. Lots of overacting and paper thin plot. Very disappointed overall and won't be bothering with season 2

This show had a good start I really enjoyed the first episode and episode 2 was good too however I thought there was a slight drop in quality in episode 3. The finale was good and I really enjoyed the intensity and some of the action scenes were really good. Unfortunately the ending wasn't that good but I'm looking forward to seeing how the story ends in series 2. James Nesbitt was amazing as DCI Tom Brannick. Some of the characters like DCS Jackie Twomey were genuinely dislikable.

This is a strange program -- all the ingredients seem to be there for a good show but it doesn't get there. Part of the problem is that the plotting is twisted and hard to follow, part of the problem is that the characters aren't very well developed, and part of the problem is that the writing is overly cliched -- way too many "'let's go get 'em" and "there he is!" and "this is an important case and we must do our best" kind of lines.

But the other issue is the strangest -- for whatever reason, the camera spends far too much time focused on James Nesbitt's face, as though the storyline depended entirely on his expressions. He's a good actor but do we have to watch him so closely, follow his every facial tic, watch his eyes watch other people? It's almost as if someone said, "hey, let's do a show about James Nesbitt's face and, sure, we can add some plot and some characters if you want." Weird.

This is definitely going to be a good series, the quality is very much here, as you'd expect from such a writer.

For me it's not the quality of Line of Duty, but then what is, it's certainly better than many shows I've watched recently. You can see Jed Mercuro's hand in this, his work is easy to spot. It seems a shame that it's only four episodes long.

James Nesbitt never disappoints, he always manages to produce the goods, a terrific piece of casting.

One thing that irritate me at times was the camera work, it was distracting at times.

I have a feeling this is going to get better and better. 8/10.

Season 1 kept me watching. The whole atmosphere, the cinematography, the conflicts and the impact upon peoples' lives, The suspense etc... all very enjoyable.

I also love Nesbitt's acting, but can't understand why he would agree to the script of the second season.

If he truly was such a mastermind as portrayed in the 1st series, he would totally not make the rookie mistakes we saw in the second.(even any traffic cop wouldn't). Unfortunately this makes season 3 implausible.

I don't blame the actors, but the plot and in general the whole script has flaws allover it. Such a shame.

Even the ending makes me even doubt more if I'm gonna watch the 3rd.

This pile of crap is an insult, not just to the people of Belfast but to anyone with a critical faculty. Dire script and wholly unfeasible plot lines. Phoned in parts (and who can blame them) just one example ....they are interviewing the wife of the disappeared Keenan....a former big chief in the IRA...'and is your husband the kind of man to keep secrets?' Jesus wept.