Viewers still in shock after last night's "riveting" Line of Duty opener

Excellent, sheer brilliance, amazeballs. Just a few of the words you lot were throwing around on social media last night after the third series of award-winning BBC2 crime drama Line of Duty kicked off – and it was soon trending on Twitter...

https://twitter.com/robintkay/status/713184077076160512

Fans were especially enamoured with newbie Daniel Mays, who plays ambitious Sergeant Danny Waldron.

Just caught up on #LineOfDuty. Wow, what a great bit of TV! @DanielMays9 plays a proper good psycho.

— Abbie (@onesmallsherry) 25 March 2016

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But, of course, this is Line of Duty and shocks, as well as huge plot twists, were in store...

https://twitter.com/Doug14224/status/713152088126128129
https://twitter.com/benclare/status/713290034527531008

The man himself was even getting involved in the chatter on Twitter...

https://twitter.com/DanielMays9/status/713263840369180672

And hours later some social media users were still recovering from the events of the series premiere:

https://twitter.com/janemcintyre12/status/713143740425236482
https://twitter.com/laurakatiex/status/713151277409165312
https://twitter.com/LMeggitt/status/713273319345283072
https://twitter.com/BarnabyWalter/status/713167958051332097

But we can all agree that series three of the cop crime drama looks pretty promising...

https://twitter.com/NigelTeece/status/713268634546790400
https://twitter.com/keithgreenoak/status/713280670534082560
https://twitter.com/stening/status/713271692710252544

Line of Duty continues on Thursdays at 9:00pm on BBC2