'Blue Lights', a British series that is very reminiscent of a region of Spain

@ElentirENG ES 4·21·2024 · 17:14 0

Last night I finished watching the first season of "Blue Lights", a British series produced by the BBC and released in the United Kingdom in 2023.

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The series focuses on officers at a Police Service of Northern Ireland (SPIN) police station in Belfast, the capital of that British territory and the second largest city on the island of Ireland. Unlike many other series about police, "Blue Lights" immerses itself in a daily reality that is still marked by the terrorism of the IRA, which carried out much of its terrorist activity against the Royal Ulster Constabulary (predecessor of the current SPIN), with 319 police officers murdered and almost 9,000 injured.

In the series we see things that will be very familiar to many Spanish police officers who have served in the Basque region: the agents who have to look under their private cars every morning when leaving home in case they have been a bomb, the precautions so that your neighbors do not know that you are a police officer and the control of the Republicans over certain neighborhoods in which they receive the Police with spitting and slamming bottles.

I really liked this series because it reviews those events openly, and it also shows us the daily reality of these police officers, the sad past that some of them have suffered due to terrorism and the difficult situations they have to face daily. As a note, there are some references in the series that will seem strange to many people who are not familiar with that part of the world. For example, the "Garda" is mentioned on a few occasions, a reference to the Garda Síochána, the Police Force of the Republic of Ireland. The series shows police procedures in a very faithful way, which adds a good degree of realism to the story it tells.

When I finished watching this season I was left wanting more, and I began to search for information, finding several news items that indicate that a second season has already been released (which apparently it's still better than the first) and there are already two more seasons committed. The first season can be seen in Spain dubbed in Spanish on Movistar Plus.

I thought it was an excellent series and I recommend it to you. You can see the trailer of this series here: