If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

The negative of the show is that much of it is predictable. The powerful men have to act macho and the woman is not respected as an equal. The woman has much better instincts as a copper than the men who've been on the police force for years. The worst of the coppers is, predictably, almost a 2-dimensional character, at least through the 2 seasons I've seen so far.The positives include that there are some sensitive male characters who give Gina a chance. The supporting cast is excellent. The plots are interesting and appropriate to the times. And the attention to detail (sexism, racism, brutality, repressed sexuality, clothing, sets, hair styles, makeup, music, dialog) makes me almost believe it really is 1956 on the set.Having lived through the 1950s (age 11 in 1956) I can attest that much of what we see on this show was very much like this. In many work places women were considered to be either eye-candy or efficient old maids who had no life outside of their employment, This continued well into the 60s until the women's movement had some clout. It would have been even more so for Gina who would have been about 10 years older than I was in 1956.Gina's character has to be independent enough to take on a nontraditional job, tough enough to be a cop, yet still have a sensitive side. I think Jennie Jacques manages to pull it off well.

WPC 56 (and particularly season 3) is or was essential viewing! An innovative crime show like this should NOT be taken off the TV, especially in it's infancy! And even more particularly since season 3 with the new WPC (Annie Taylor) took over and brought it to a new level!!!! What the heck is wrong with the BBC? Who's ever decision it is, or was to take it off is a real shame! and they need their head's checking! I really hope one of the other channels take it over, I am sure it would probably do better on ITV anyhow!I get a feeling that the new controller or boss who decides whether programmes stay or go are a bit of a SNOB, if something doesn't come from London then it's just not good enough. The Midlands is a fantastic place, especially to film with it's great history, locations and it's wonderful art and culture, something to be proud of! It's not all about London and Manchester you know! It should be about the great story's and talent!Get it back on the TV! Us fans should have a say!

This show has gotten better with age and new characters. Season one and 2 were OK, but season 3 beat all of them with the new Annie Taylor.The crimes getting more interesting. I like it a lot! So why not an evening slot? Hey person in control, we'd like to see season 4 in the evening prime time please. It would be a real shame if it ends here with this new lot! This season was also so funny!I see S3 is now on DVD too. I will be getting a copy of this and look forward of more of this fantastic show. Hurry up! (there just aren't enough episodesThank you!

The series is about Gina Dawson's, who is one of the first WPCs(Woman Police Constable), life as female police officer at precinct where dominated by male in West Midlands. Naturally She faces some difficulties as a woman because time is 1950s and it is the peak of the sexism and also awaking of the male protest. WPC 56's genre contains both drama and comedy and also beauty of the Jennie Jacques. There is an aspect, a thing thing that I can distinguish WPC 56 than other TV series. İt is not about the story telling or acting performance. Even I do like the both of them, there is an original shade in TV series. Both TV series focuses the female police officer's life and her life that is made difficult by her family, colleagues and dominant culture ideology of her community at that years, WPC 56 shows us and it take us an journey that how conditions of woman in business are in first. Also it offers us a compression about woman in the field that dominated by male between past and present. Consequently it is a great series to witness an era and discover how the woman rights and woman in business life comes far from past to present. I hope that there are more TV shows like WPC 56. I like that kind of series that there is real cause to makes it. So I rate it 8/10 because it deserves that. Acting, storytelling, scenario and reflection of an era when tells struggle of women are very fascinating.