If you didn’t already believe Martin Freeman could do anything, you need to check out The Responder, a dark and unforgiving BritBox original that has Freeman as far away from Bilbo Baggins as one could possibly imagine.
American audiences probably best know Freeman as the beloved titular hobbit from Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy, but he also made quite an impression from his roles in Love, Actually or his stint in the MCU as Everett K. Ross in Captain America: Civil War and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. More hip American audiences may recognize Freeman as Watson to Benedict Cumberbatch’s Holmes in four seasons of Sherlock, but Martin’s best American work was in the stellar first season of Noah Hawley’s masterpiece series Fargo, which continues to be one of the best shows to have ever existed.