Blue Lights
Blue Lights
Follows rookie police officers working in Belfast, a city in which being a frontline response cop comes with unique pressures and dangers.
Callum reviewedOctober 22, 2025
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (6/5 stars isn’t even close)
“Blue Lights” isn’t just a police procedural — it’s Warhammer 40K with handcuffs.
Every episode feels like it’s set in a grimdark Belfast where hope is the Emperor’s least favourite son, and every rookie cop is just trying to survive another shift in a world that actively hates the idea of law and order. The tension doesn’t simmer — it howls like a banshee through the bullet-pocked streets. You can practically smell the fear, sweat, and cold rain in every frame.
Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, “The Rookie” looks like the Saturday-morning cartoon adaptation of the same profession. If Blue Lights is a bolter-round to the chest, The Rookie is a glittery friendship bracelet — all smiles, hugs, and moral lessons wrapped in soft-focus lens flare. It’s not even apples and oranges; it’s grim determination versus My Little Pony: Patrol Unit Harmony.
So yes — six stars out of five isn’t enough. If there were a scale that went to “holy Emperor, I can’t breathe,” Blue Lights would break it every season.