I timed these head-to-heads: they lasted 45 minutes – quite extraordinary for a modern-day TV drama.
I quite like that Line of Duty is not set anywhere in particular, but that does add to the sense of dislocation, of a world not quite connected to our world.
But has it gone a bit, well, OTT in this latest series?
Still, this is peerlessly visceral entertainment, and where the writer goes with series six, I’m still agog to find out.