Now you’re in on the secret. Next time Hastings says “Now we’re sucking diesel,” and you see a gray skyline, whisper “Belfast” to yourself. You’ll feel like a proper detective.
Will the show ever move filming to, say, actual London? Doubtful. The charm of Line of Duty is that it lives in a twilight zone of real places—a concrete archive in Northern Ireland standing in for a British police force. It’s fake, but it feels brutally real. And isn’t that the whole point of a great cop show? To make you question everything, including where the camera is hiding.
