You won't be disappointed!

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Season 2 is a mixed-up mess.Everything mushed together and a weird feeling of repetitiveness. Like, didn't I just see this character do this in the last episode?I'd gotten through two episodes and I was about to stop watching and then it occurred to me to check directors. Viola! I see a different director for the next episode.So, before I throw the baby out with the bathwater, I thought, I will at least give episode three a chance.Fingers crossed.It was clearer and better paced but really . . . so what.Season 2 just sucks. I give up.

(Update Feb 2016: Babylon is the black comedy U.K. police drama that No Offence tried to be. Highly recommend Babylon instead of this show.)It tries to be too clever and unlike true great black comedies like Orange is the new Black, where the realistic characters get themselves into realistic but funny/stupid situations, in No Offense, we are supposed to laugh at the totally unbelievable characters in unbelievable situations.For example, right at the start we watch a petite off duty policewoman hopping out of a cab to chase a murder suspect on her own - rather than phoning it in. Later she invites a victim home to live with her family - just like that. Given the amount of victims she deals with one would expect her to run out of bedrooms pretty quickly.All of the actresses look like they would be more at home policing up the kitchen rather than a tough neighborhood. None of them look like they would last five minutes on the street. British dramas usually go with realistic character actors whereas for this series, they seem to have decided it didn't matter. Maybe they think it is part of the humour - having non-police type people playing tough police roles?This series must have a big budget because there are always many, many "extras" with police men and woman standing around everywhere.I did try and give this series a try. I even watched up to the beginning of the third episode, but alas, it remained absurd, instead of being clever, or even funny.

We love this series and we both have a uniform background.I have laughed out loud and grimaced at some scenes that I saw in real life.It is one of the best police series I have seen. The angst of getting it wrong,the relationships forged in extreme circumstances, the black humour and how the job takes over your life. Elaine Cassidy is superbly cast. Yes there are 'playground moments' others have reviewed, but that is sometimes the only way you can deal with the worst aspects of human nature and stay sane. Love it and hope it has another series.

Just to strike some balance against the review titled 'total trash'. (Written by someone in the US two days before the UK show premiered in the UK??)It's not 'shocktainment.' I have no idea which scene that's supposed to relate to, if any. The only body you see is on a mortuary slab: just the face, rest beneath a sheet. There is a mildly gross X-ray image in the background, relating to an, er, unusual car crash. You might not like the humour, but it is included AS humour.If he/she means the 'splat' moment at the start, it only lasts a second and you don't see anything, really. It's no worse than any of the deaths in Midsomer Murders, and no one compares those to torture TV.It's a black comedy. And if some of the humour seems, as another reviewer says, to 'belong in the playground,' well, the clue is in the title of the series. People say 'no offence' when they are about to say something awful. It's meant to be outrageous in places.It parodies the standard police drama, while still being one. Turns a few clichés on their heads. And adds some realism: a heroine jumping in a city river to save someone probably does need antibiotics more than a medal afterwards.Can't wait to see where it goes from here.