The week in TV: The Responder; Trigger Point; The Gilded Age; Survivors: Portraits of the Holocaust

‘A different actor almost’: Martin Freeman, with Adelayo Adedayo, in The Responder. Photograph: Rekha Garton/BBC/Dancing Ledge

The Responder (BBC One) | iPlayer
Trigger Point (ITV) | ITV Hub
The Gilded Age (Sky Atlantic)
Survivors: Portraits of the Holocaust (BBC Two) | IPlayer

I was rather taken aback by BBC One’s The Responder: by how good it is, how unsettling and vivid. It looks like a bog-standard “edgy” five-part police drama (all episodes are on iPlayer), this time set in Liverpool: the fraught “corrupt” cop with the marriage on the rocks; the seedy underworld; drug deals going wrong; threats; eruptions of violence … The Responder has all of this, but much more besides. It is television police drama refashioned as a long, dark night of the soul.