# Hustle Season 6 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 5, 2010, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hustle-season-6/523738 "2010-01-05T13:02:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hustle-season-6/523738/1 "2010-01-05T13:02:43Z")
Hustle, the BBC TV Show about a group of con-artists is back for it’s 6th season. Hustle is one of the shows that really demonstrates the advantage of a 6 episode season in the UK. Each plot is intricate and packed full, like a well made watch with no spare parts. It’s a pleasure watching each plot unfold & seeing all of the clever twists that fall out at the end. I think the addition of the female cop to the cast is a good move. It’ll be refreshing for them to have a nemesis which is in lock step with them and I look forward to seeing how this season will play out. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hustle-season-6/523738/2 "2010-01-05T13:14:02Z")
I recently purchased the Season 1-4 boxed set. I haven’t seen season five yet; has it been aired in the US and I missed it? This is one of my favorite shows. I’m a sucker for well-run cons, particularly ones where it looks like the con is falling apart but they pull it off anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hustle-season-6/523738/3 "2010-01-05T13:14:07Z")
Hustle is great but it does take more than a little suspension of disbelief. Much as I loved the con story, I did wonder at the policewoman’s willingness to just let him walk out so quickly. It’s not as if they had no evidence at all; they had Sir Edmund’s testimony, and I can’t recall whether the two disguised team members were wearing something to prevent fingerprints on either the fake wire or Sir Edmund’s house. They could easily have held him - and picked up his associates - while they dug for more evidence. But that would have been tedious to watch. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hustle-season-6/523738/4 "2010-01-05T16:20:49Z")
I thoroughly enjoyed seasons 1 and 2, but I lost interest an episode or two into season 3, when Micky left. Has it gotten any better since then? ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hustle-season-6/523738/5 "2010-01-05T20:57:57Z")
Mickey came back in Season 4 but Danny & Stacie left in Season 5. The replacements are, IMO, not as good but still watchable. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hustle-season-6/523738/6 "2010-01-06T01:58:28Z")
Yeah I miss Danny and Stacie. I think the storyline with Emma being all up in Mickey’s grill about other women is all played out. For real! I dug Mickey’s American accent in this episode, and then when he was messing with the banker he was brilliant as well 😃 I loves me some Ash! ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hustle-season-6/523738/7 "2010-02-02T00:10:07Z")
I just watched episode 5 and wanted to talk about it. _possible spoilers_ I enjoyed it for the most part. I thought the mark was a really fun character (although he did ultimately become a david brent clone). The Dragon’s Den scene would be over the top for any other series, but appropriate for this series and this character, and I liked little touches like the Andy Warhol style self-portrait in his office. The Curse thing didn’t really work for me. Mickey wouldn’t believe such a thing and people only repeatedly roll snake eyes in TV Land. (Unless The Curse is real of course, but this requires too much of a suspension of disbelief even for Hustle) And the end was out of keeping for the characters too. Screwing over the barkeep’s business is very far from the honourable thief. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hustle-season-6/523738/8 "2010-02-02T11:11:35Z")
It warmed the cockles of my heart to see the [old potato bug killer scam](http://www.snopes.com/business/market/taterbug.asp) again. The old ones are still the best. But yes, screwing Eddie always strikes me as unnecessarily cruel. The odd small con is one thing, but that was over the top.