Blue Lights review: This Belfast-set police drama explodes back on our screens with fire, violence


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www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com— The BBC's Belfast-set cop drama Blue Lights (BBC1, Mon, 9pm) returned for its second series with a tense and fiery sequence which saw an armoured Land Rover come under attack from a petrol bomb-chucking mob. The tension dissipated when it was revealed this was a mere training exercise, a trend followed across the first two episodes, as set-pieces – a flute band march, a stand-off in a pharmacy, a foot chase through a Belfast estate – are resolved with a few well-chosen words or a baton to the...

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