I know I asked if I was alone in my feelings about Line Of Duty, but I was being facetious. And gaffer, I have hard evidence to back that up.

Escher Walcott says she’s been falling out of love with LOD too. She tells Stylist: “While I appreciate the action Line Of Duty occasionally brings, the overlong, drawn-out investigative interviewing scenes feel long and leave me bored.”

Izzie Price tells me she watched a couple of seasons way back when (the Keeley Hawes era) but “just got bored”. “It definitely seems like sacrilege to say it, but it’s just not really my thing. I think I just find it super convoluted. I don’t have an issue with complex plots, in fact I love a good complex plot, but I just find it all a bit much…”

Stylist’s digital fashion writer Naomi May shares these sentiments. She says while she should have been glued to the screen like her girlfriend was, she found herself drifting off in the middle of Line Of Duty. “I should’ve been watching the Line Of Duty season two finale with my girlfriend, an avid fan of AC-12 and their shenanigans, but instead I found myself yawning, stretching and, eventually, in a bath so as to avoid the sad storylines. Where hyperbole goes, I’m always reluctant to follow, but Line Of Duty is so widely revered that I expected I would be immune from disliking it.” Naomi says tried to get on with the show, but just couldn’t. “How does anybody keep up to speed?” she asks.

Line Of Duty season 6: “Am I the only one who thinks it’s overrated?”