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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Barbara Ellen

The week in TV: The Responder; Spacey Unmasked; Doctor Who; Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly – review

Salman Rushdie Doctor Who Kevin Spacey United States Martin Freeman Chris Carson BBC Two Bernard Hill Dan Wootton Russell T Davies
Martin Freeman in The Responder
Martin Freeman in The Responder, ‘a scuffed gem of a police drama’. Photograph: Rekha Garton/BBC/Dancing Ledge

The Responder (BBC One)
Spacey Unmasked (Channel 4)
Doctor Who (BBC One)
Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly (BBC Two)

You’d be forgiven for feeling jittery about series two of former policeman Tony Schumacher’s acclaimed Liverpool-set drama The Responder, starring Martin Freeman as a burnt-out officer. Has it returned overly self-aware? A bit too pleased with itself? Fear not, this series is just as full of juice, bite and desperation: a criminal underworld drugs saga, but also a funny/sad survey of humanity as a slowly spreading bruise.

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