The Responder

The dialogue was difficult to understand but I stuck with it. As a family of police officers I wish the public knew more about the stress the job causes.

Talking Pictures on Sunday at 6pm: Upstairs Downstairs. No swearing there

I'd recorded this but think I'll just delete it. I still have a few episodes of Hidden Assets to watch. BBC i-player.

Yawn!!!

Never heard of it till now!

Grannycott I don’t think they do I think he’s a total maverick but I m too not sure it’s close to real life ( I hope not anyway)

I thought it was great drama. Martin Freeman’s accent is spot on. I often have trouble with sound so use the subtitles and rewind !

Can’t believe, in this day and age, that a first responder goes in alone and doesn’t wear a bodycam that has to be switched on. Not plausible.

I had been looking forward to this, living on Merseyside myself. But we didn't get to see much of the area, could have been filmed anywhere. Martin Freeman has mastered the Scouse accent, but the storyline was so bleak, that's not what I want to be entertained by on a weekday evening.

I recommend Emily in Paris on Netflix for something lighthearted! I also enjoy Malory Towers on CBBC!

Why can't we have some happy dramas on the telly life is bad enough at the moment without having to watch these constant depressing programming

I have not read all the posts here but the first page were all pretty negative, which is a shame as people are missing a good yarn, despite the darkness and language (obviously in my opinion).

I am really bad at understanding most accents (and additionally, many programmes seem badly recorded) so often have the subtitles on. If you haven't tried this aid, one quickly becomes used to them and they really are helpful.

As to the programme itself, I am enjoying the way it is developing and Martin Freeman is excellent as a good man weaving his way through the underbelly of society that I am pretty sure few of us on GN have had contact with.

Do give the programme another try but with subtitles - and thank goodness for your lot!

I wasn’t keen on the first episode of The Responder but thought I’d plough on and found the second episode gripping, but as people have said it’s all in the dark - perhaps cause he’s working the night shift.
The Tourist was great til the last two episodes where it went a bit weird which was disappointing.

Stuck with it after a dismal first episode and do think the storyline is picking up, so will stay with it now.

Depressing and full of bad language. I may be old fashion in that respect but for me it’s an off-switch job. We watched ‘Trigger Point’ and didn’t particularly notice any swearing in that. There may have been some but if there was it was minimal.

I went on a train journey at the weekend. We were sitting by a group of young men (footie fans) and every other word was f*****g. My daughter went up to them ‘Guys, we have a young girl (age 10) with us so would you mind…..’ at this point she was interrupted by one of them ‘Oh! Yes, sorry!’ and not another wrong word from them! Maybe we should all speak up more?

I am deaf (so obviously unaware of which regional dialect) and always have subtitles as a setting on my tv, why was everyone called LAD, talk about overuse of the word LAD every 5 minutes, but even with subtitles I wondered what was going on and if they were even speaking English, is this how the younger generation really speak nowadays? Like a foreign language! yes and the OTT swearing, but Martin Freeman was amazing!

I’m watching it, big edgy and different. I’m persevering, but it’s not as good as Trigger-point or The Tourist...

Yet another relentless, dark, depressing BBC production.
We are watching re run of The Vicar of Dibley. Now there was a brilliant comedy series. Up lifting and just what we all desperately need at the moment.

I didn't enjoy it but I was gripped. It's appalling what drugs do to people. I shall watch the whole series.

Stuck it out to the end, but no desire to see the next episodes. Not bothered by the language, just found it depressing and boring.

Since the first Lockdown, i've only been able to watch positive, uplifting drama and so much of drama on TV these days is "dark and gritty", and downright depressing. I know that we need to know how awful life can be for some but ultimately it's supposed to be about entertainment too (and the best kind of learning comes with also being entertained). Something like Happy Valley was very dark BUT it also had strong characters and funny moments to stop it being totally depressing. I did watch the first episode of Responders on the iPlayer but much earlier in the evening, and then watched something funny after it, so I didn't go to bed feeling down. Thought Martin Freeman was fantastic, but the dark camera work and mumbling got to me; plus it was so unrelentingly depressing that I found myself wondering why on earth I was spending my precious time on it. Not sure I'll watch anymore.

We stuck with it for first episode but did not enjoy it. Will not be tuning in to other episodes. So much violence and drug abuse everywhere on news- I do not wish to view it for pleasure.

The other problem is that I need to go to YouKnowWhere or an alternative one.

Urmstongran

The only thing is TerriBull we’d have to put our books down. ...
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After reading through this thread I think I will pick my book up instead.

I can’t multitask Calli. Sometimes I don’t even uni task very well.

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