1/3/2024 0 Comments Prim nails![]() Photograph: Blast FilmsĪfter a shameful period for British policing – the rape and murder of Sarah Everard by an off-duty officer policemen sharing images of murdered sisters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman on WhatsApp – perhaps it’s no surprise that there’s a marked sense of reputational rehabilitation to the opener. ‘Ersatz Blue Peter presenters in stab-proof vests’: Night Coppers. New Channel 4 docuseries Night Coppers follows real night officers in Brighton dealing with everything from drunken revelry to assault and arson. If Breeders is still primarily a parenting comedy, it’s an angry dad Motherland with properly nasty rows, red bills and consequences.Īt the beginning of the year, Freeman was superb in BBC One’s The Responder, playing a night cop in Liverpool. ![]() ![]() From the double episode opener of this third, 10-part series, there is an intricate cat’s cradle of plots, weaving the aftermath of the couple’s son, Luke (Alex Eastwood), punching Paul with the increasingly withdrawn nature of daughter Ava (Eve Prenelle), via work problems, MRI scans, HRT shortages (Ally grapples with early menopause) and a curveball concerning Paul’s parents, played beautifully by Alun Armstrong and Joanna Bacon. Since then, Breeders has evolved into something pithier, more nuanced. Ally’s snarky warmth kept me watching, if only in the hope that she’d kick Paul out, or at least nag him into abandoning the middle-aged mod styling. Paul was so unlikable – shouting, swearing at his kids, pompously sniffing like Dad’s Army’s Captain Mainwaring – he was borderline unwatchable. As a showcase for Freeman being odious – an anti-Tim from The Office – it was almost too successful. Created by Freeman, Simon Blackwell and Chris Addison, it initially felt like a child-centred, foul-tempered Cold Feet. It took me a while to click with this show.
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