TV: ‘Blue Lights’

This isn’t the first TV series to focus on the daily grind of street cops as opposed to detectives — Canada’s “19-2,” England’s “The Responder” and “Happy Valley” are other examples — but “Blue Lights” has both grit and charm singular to its Northern Irish setting. It follows a group of new “peelers” on patrol in Belfast on calls that range from mundane to murderous. In the third season, which began Thursday with weekly episodes on BritBox, the target is a new gang that’s exported its highly sophisticated drug trade from Dublin, which has Grace (Sian Brooke), Stevie (Martin McCann) and their colleagues butting heads with intelligence and organized-crime officers. — Debra Yeo

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