Blue Lights is an excellent example of the fact that the quality of a television series does not depend on the performance of its production or the display of special effects, but essentially on the talent of its screenwriters, the sobriety of the production and the actors, who are far from divisive. The six episodes of the first season are a reflection of the fine work of Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson, its creators and screenwriters, supported by excellent performances from Sian Brooke, Katherine Devlin, Nathan Braniff and Richard Dormer, among others.
The plot is simple: the daily work of police officers at a police station in Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, with a particular focus on three young officers and their ability to respond to the city’s problems. Blue Lights (Movistar Plus+) is a series from 2023, a fact to take into account. Many years have passed since the last bloody attack by the Provisional IRA, and the political struggle between Catholics and trade unionists is now a thing of the past, or at least quiet. The problems are now more prosaic and undoubtedly more universal: we are talking about local mafias and drug trafficking, criminals and police. And it is precisely these problems that experienced and new police officers have to deal with.
Nothing new under the sun, but with a virtue: a simple narrative style, without having to resort to heroic gestures and from the conviction that the police institution can be criticized at the same time that it is essential, that is, without demagogic statements from the right and the Spanish extremes Right-wingers who are so inclined to denounce the spark in someone else’s eye without admitting the spark in their own eye.
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