Scott & Bailey

Watched the last in the series last night, story line good which made a gripping episode, acting superb and the main characters were women.
You can't beat that, (sorry about that lads).

Ha ha

Bailey may be someone we can relate to, laidback, but would you really want her trying to get justice for you if you were a victim of crime...? She's too far up her own exhaust pipe!

I hold my hands up and accept I have obviously missed something here as everyone else cannot be wrong. I actually found the story lines coarse and vulgar which spoilt my enjoyment to the extent that although the TV was on I spent my time reading too. I don't think I am a prude, in fact far from it, but I did feel the stories were definitely too cheap and coarse for me.

I kinda like Bailey's character. She's human and we all have flaws. Just like us, is anyone perfect?

That should,of course, read Amelia Bullmore, not Amanda!

Love Scott and Bailey and hope another series will be in production very soon. Last night's final was gripping, if a little scary,and so well acted by Amanda Bullimore and Nicola Walker especially. The scenes at Flamborough Head were particularly emotional ,personally, as I have been there so many times since being a very young child. Thankfully no-one has driven over the cliff during my family's visits.

I agree with Printmiss, I do hope that they do another and soon!

That episode tied up enough loose ends and left room for another series. I'm getting a bit fed up with Bailey's character though. The next series will show her passing her sergeant's exams but let's hope they give Scott back her stripes before that!

Loved it, nice plots which were easy to follow, and great acting, Hope they do another.

A really good series with great acting from everybody involved.

I'm going off Rachel. Her mum's a hoot though.

Just noticed I typed 'to' instead of 'too'! Oh the shame....

It was the best series on tv for a long time as far as I'm concerned.

At the end I said to my OH, how good to see a show with such strong women characters - he said 'well it's fiction' so I hit him

I agree, it was a good series and a satisfying finale - but the Rachel character is far to flaky to be a police officer, IMO!

I loved the dig to 'life on mars'. Great to watch a talented ensemble show with great turns by women. Refreshing.

I loved it and will miss ,great acting.

What a good way to end the series brilliant story line thoughout the whole series,lets hope we get more episodes next year (or sooner).

Brilliant finale of Scott and Bailey!

Suranne and Sally Lindsay suggested the premise for the series, they admitted they were huge Cagney and Lacey fans. They don't write it. Sally Wainright writes most of the episodes and Amelia Bullmore writes a couple.I hope she writes more telly stuff, I love her writing. She wrote a couple of Episodes of 'This life' if you remember that.

Nicola Walker is fab, after years of spooks maybe she is relishing getting her teeth into grittier roles!

Yes - she was great in Last Tango in Halifax. It's probably that slightly crumpled but expressive face she has which gets her the more gritty parts.

Suranne Jones who plays Rachel Bailey co wrote the previous series if not this one, not to sure about that.

She is brilliant and so is Lesley Sharpe who has been around for years.

Yes we do keep seeing the `same old faces`. Suranne being one of them, along with Olivia Colman, Nicola Walker and Amelia Bullmore but they are all very fine actresses.

I feel sorry for Nicola Walker who seems to have cornered the market in down trodden women with loose morals. It would be nice to see her glammed up a bit.

Cagney and Lacey was one of my must-see series in the past, though their bosses were all male. Their private lives were also convincingly portrayed. Could Scott and Bailey exist if Cagney and Lacey had not gone before them?

After millenia of just assuming they were more important and clever than women, it is amusing to see how quickly some men scream when women get a modicum of equality,or even superiority. I don't recall a huge demand for the education system to be revised when boys were achieving more than girls!