10 Best New TV Shows Of 2022 You Need To See (So Far)

10. The Responder

This six-part drama follows an urgent response officer called Chris (Martin Freeman) who must work six gruelling night shifts in Liverpool, an undertaking which throws his mental health and career into turmoil.

Anchored by a typically powerful performance from Freeman as a man out of luck, seemingly out of time, and desperate for release, The Responder is gritty and harrowingly dark in its depiction of crime and mental anguish, but isn't just shock for shock's sake.

With a stirring humanist edge and a strikingly authentic script from former officer Tony Schumacher, the crime-thriller is emotionally frightening, but also uses its characters to be genuinely mysterious.

Freeman is sure to be a major awards contender going forward, but he's just one part of a vital British drama we should be talking about for the rest of the year.