The Responder - BBC1
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abzmike said:
It’s like Dixon of Dock Green meets The Equalizer meets Miami Vice, set in a slum.
Classic! If only we could see that description on IMDb The drama does show a different side of living that most people would never know existed today and the crap police have to deal with.
Very surprised at some of the negative comments. I think it is outstanding and way better than the usual sort of Police procedural drama. Fantastic performance by Martin Freeman and in general I think the standard of acting is very high; even the girl playing his daughter is better than you usually find from a child of that age - 8?
Up to episode 3 at the moment. Must admit, I'm a bit lost.
I get that the cop appears to be having a mental breakdown but I didn't understand his crisis of conscience when he found the drugs and was contemplating putting them into the evidence locker.
Why not just pass them straight back to his scummy mate Carl?
That would have fixed the damage done by the girl and got things back on track - yes he felt guilty when he realised she was about to be battered but he did her a good turn and got her out of there but she then threw it back in his face by returning to Liverpool. Will stick with it but it's not something I'll revisit.
Having said that, I'm finding the acting quite decent and as others have said, good to see a different side to the main actor.
I get that the cop appears to be having a mental breakdown but I didn't understand his crisis of conscience when he found the drugs and was contemplating putting them into the evidence locker.
Why not just pass them straight back to his scummy mate Carl?
That would have fixed the damage done by the girl and got things back on track - yes he felt guilty when he realised she was about to be battered but he did her a good turn and got her out of there but she then threw it back in his face by returning to Liverpool. Will stick with it but it's not something I'll revisit.
Having said that, I'm finding the acting quite decent and as others have said, good to see a different side to the main actor.
Gadgetmac said:
MXRod said:
Watched first episode ,cancelled series link ,barely understandable dialogue , writer suffering with limited vocabulary .Utter rubbish
It was perfectly understandable.How do you get on when talking to scousers, geordies, mancs etc?
MXRod said:
It has nothing to do with local accents ,poor sound quality ,over loud background effects .AND as I said before ,limited vocabulary exhibited by writer , it now seems that in any drama 50% of the dialogue has to be profane , how long before the C bomb is normal in mainstream drama . Not for me , much better drama available .
Sound quality was fine with UHD engaged and a decent sound system.. I only say this because my dad moaned about overly loud background noise in TV until I made him buy a half decent sound bar which splits the audio up a bitJ8 SVG said:
Sound quality was fine with UHD engaged and a decent sound system.. I only say this because my dad moaned about overly loud background noise in TV until I made him buy a half decent sound bar which splits the audio up a bit
It wasn't in UHD and anyway that has no bearing on the sound.Regarding a previous post on accents.
I can understand John Bishop perfectly,I could barely understand a word from the 1st 5 minutes of the 1st episode,hence I switched off.
I have a 5 speaker surround sound system btw.
Everyone's hearing is different,clarity of the spoken word should take precedence over authenticity of accents etc
J8 SVG said:
MXRod said:
It has nothing to do with local accents ,poor sound quality ,over loud background effects .AND as I said before ,limited vocabulary exhibited by writer , it now seems that in any drama 50% of the dialogue has to be profane , how long before the C bomb is normal in mainstream drama . Not for me , much better drama available .
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