DVD: The Complete Thin Blue Line
Thin Blue Line is a british sitcom with Rowan Atkinson. The show aired 1995-96 on BBC. I haven’t seen it before I, by accident, came over it on the Internet. It’s a real fun show.
It’s about the people working on a police station in a small town and what they have to do to make law and order. They do a lot of things, not all related to police work. But Inspector Raymond Fowler (Rowan Atkinson) is trying to teach the others what to do in different situations, and what not to do.
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Set in a fictitious British suburb, The Thin Blue Line is the wickedly funny story of a rather down-at-heel police station headed by Inspector Raymond Fowler (Rowan Atkinson, best known as Mr. Bean), a pompous, repressed but well-intentioned anachronism who wants to do the right thing but who is constantly hampered by his own shortcomings, not to mention his blundering Criminal Investigation Department colleagues. Atkinson expertly balances his character’s inflated sense of self-importance with the insight born of old-school police values, for which his galumphing, shiny-suited CID counterpart, DI Grim (David Haig) has no time at all.
Strongest among the supporting cast is Sgt. Pauline Dawkins (Serena Evans), who also happens to be Fowler’s live-in lover–a moral dilemma that his traditional values won’t allow him to resolve. He salves his conscience by avoiding sex with her whenever possible, an amusing subplot enhanced by Evans’s brilliant performance–she positively vibrates with contained, ladylike lust in a manner only equaled by Penelope Keith in the classic sitcom To the Manor Born.
Scripted by Ben Elton, this series manages to satirize provincialism, institutionalized pig-headedness, and dated moral values in one fell swoop, while also being chock-full of quick-fire, Black Adder-esque dialogue. —Roger Thomas
If you haven’t seen Thin Blue Line yet, it is highly recommanded to buy it. You won’t be disapointed. Two seasons, 14 episodes total. This is a real good show.
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