I could not finish the first episode. I love a good police series and wanted this to be good, and as a former police officer try not to get over critical when characters do totally unrealistic things, but nearly every scene in the first episode would have never happened in a real situation, or would have resulted in the new recruit (or the trainer) being fired. The first scene where a new recruits son is walking around the house waving his mums pistol around was not a good start. I stopped watching when a new recruit was told the situation was a set up and they needed to get out of the area and she told her senior officer 'No'. Not only did she put herself in danger for a person she only just met, but caused other officers to come to help her. That alone would have been her last shift at any police station around the world.
If Belfast was half as dangerous as it's portrayed officers who acted like this wouldn't last a week.
If Belfast was half as dangerous as it's portrayed officers who acted like this wouldn't last a week.