The week in TV: The Bridge; Tabula Rasa; Homeland; Genderquake; Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? — theguardian.com

The Bridge (BBC Two) | iPlayer Tabula Rasa (C4) | All 4 Homeland (C4) | All 4 Genderquake (C4) | All 4 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (ITV) | ITV Hub I felt this week as heart-sorry for a beautiful, blond, Porsche-driving policewoman as I hope I am ever likely to feel. The Bridge’s Saga Norén – brusque, frigid of spirit, relentless and heroically on the Asperger’s spectrum, yet whose bitterly rare smile, her even rarer attempt at a joke, can make one feel seven long months of winter have finally ended – has inchwormed her way into our psyches over the past six years. So it was a shocker to see her banged up in chokey, falsely convicted of her mother’s murder at the close of the last series, having lost everything. Almost wailing to her partner Henrik (formerly in the police sense, now in the progressive-Scandi-jail bed sense too), after he tries to mention her routines: “But they’re not my routines. Somebody else decides everything.” For someone so used to control, this is indeed an appalling wrench; but, worse, she’s no longer in the police, a status of sorts on which she had built her entire identity. And for someone who has lived her life by unceasing truth-telling, to the extent that she dobbed in lovely partner Martin, there’s a savage irony in her being wrongly imprisoned.

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