The Responder: Martin Freeman’s descent into furious nihilism makes for gripping viewing

arguably peaked when he was cast as the star of Peter Jackson’s Hobbit movies. Since playing Bilbo Baggins, it’s been all downhill for Mr Underhill – which is a shame as nobody does a better grumpy everyman. The problem is perhaps that grumpy everymen are not characters we necessarily want on our screens. They are hard to warm too, are invariably self-destructive – and if we look too closely, we may see, in their turbocharged peevishness, our own disagreeable reflections gazing back.

The Responder is theoretically a police procedural. What it really is, however, is an unflinching study in middle-life ennui. Series one introduced us to Carson as a policeman-on-the-take trying to keep his unravelling marriage together. The new season takes up the story six months later. Carson has separated from Kate , who is threatening to move to London with their daughter, where a new job potentially awaits.

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