Commentary: How 'Blue Lights' turns Belfast's sectarian tensions into gripping police drama

Los Angeles Times - Nov 12, 2026

'Blue Lights,' now entering its fourth season, may have been conceived as a Belfast-set version of 'The Wire,' but it also joins the often exalted ranks of art attempting to explain the complicated history and reality of the Emerald Isle.

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