The Responder (BBC1)
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Raymond Chandler founded it.
One of his private-eye thriller authors, a hard drinking man who wrote about women fatales, described it as “a blonde that would make a bishop kick an hole in a stained glass window”.
Boris Johnson borrowed this phrase to describe Jennifer Arcuri.
Every crime writer desires to write sharp dialogue, stuffed with funny zingers.
Tony Schumacher excels at this feat The Responder (BBC1)His five-part series, starring Martin Freeman, stars Chris Carson as Liverpool copper, and is slipping into corruption.
Tony Schumacher creates pithy dialogue crammed with memorable zingers in The Responder (BBC1), his five-part series starring Martin Freeman (pictured) as Liverpool copper Chris Carson, who is sliding into a morass of corruption
Carson can no longer see any point to his job after being dragged through the night shifts.
It’s not enough to be quotable that the best dialogue is good. You can skewer characters and fix them in your mind as secure as butterflies pinched to a board.
Marco (Josh Finan), a teenage drug dealer, was only five words long.
As he rode in PC Carson’s patrol car, he looked puzzled to find out that the cop was living with her mother. Marco exclaimed, “Yer doin’ my head in,”
Carson, who is constantly on the verge of breakdown, and never far from tears or violence, has a kind touch. He gave £30 to red-eyed heroin addict Casey (Emily Fairn).
The money disappeared two hours later. Casey, who is currently sleeping in a warehouse that has been abandoned, said, “I have overheads,” and he was left with nothing but a pile of bags.
The best of them all was Carson, his loving father who is able to give backhanders to local gangsters while he rolls joints for Rita Tushingham in her home.
Calling to an elderly woman, who was 81 years old and had just died on her TV screen, he spent the time waiting for the doctor by eating the pea soup of the victim while trying to pass the time.
“You believe that it’s right?” “You think that’s appropriate?” demanded the doctor.
Carson shrugged, “I believe it’s homemade,” he said.
Freeman loves the job and has a Liverpool accent that is as rich as Scouse stew.
Most police drama stars are intelligent, brilliant, and ready to rescue the world.
Martin Freeman, a dedicated journalist has admitted that he used a Liverpudlian accent to talk to himself for over a year in preparation for BBC’s comedy-drama The Responder. (pictured in 2019, 2019).
Carson is tired of the nightshifts and can’t see what the point of the job.
He was sat on the couch with a serial offenders and stared at John Wayne’s picture.
Both lawmen are part of different universes. Freeman had despair written across his face. He did not say anything.
Sometimes, a sharp conversation is not necessary.
Michael Portillo was exploring the seaside around Edinburgh on the first part of Great Coastal Railway Journeys (BBC2)
Michael Portillo was perfecting his one-liners, as he explored Edinburgh’s coast on the first section of Great Coastal Railway Journeys (BBC2).
A local geologist, explaining how Scottish scientists first gauged the planet’s age, said: ‘The Earth is about halfway through its life — there’s still about another 5,000 million years to go.’ ‘I’d better check my pension,’ quipped Michael.
He was pacing between seabirds at Bass Rock that house a colony 150,000 gannets. As he did so, he murmured, ‘I don’t want to think of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds’.
Former Tory gold boy, the former Tory golden child was in particularly colourful form. He wore a stunning orange mac with matching woolly hat and a knee-length orange Mac.
Michael Portillo was working on his one liner and last night was particularly colorful
He changed into a tartan tie and suit for a Palace of Holyroodhouse visit.
He witnessed where David Rizzio was killed by Mary Queen of Scots’s lover, and he had 57 knife injuries to his body.
Michael revealed the shocking deed that it left an indelible mark on his Scottish mother.
Today, Portillos who cut their fingers and draw blood on others’ bodies are referred to as ‘Rizzio’s murder’.
You can feel so sorry for them.