We’re back in Denmark for the latest eight-part Saturday-night BBC crime import, this one with so many genre tropes (kidnapped girls held in dingy basements, obsessive divorced cop at odds with his superiors, and even an Enya-esque theme song) that it might seem to have been cobbled together by a Scandi-noir computer programme. There are signs of originality in the opening double bill, however, as Copenhagen detective Jan Michelsen (Kenneth M Christensen) investigates the disappearance of a young woman from a suburban street, and spots a link to an old case. Six months later, he is the only one who believes that she is still alive…
I came across another Sky Atlantic one this week, Midnight Sun. Half subtitles, half English with novel ways of killing people, like strapping them to helicopter rotor blades . . .
a heads up for those on Facebook, there's a Walter Presents page that lets you know what new series are beginning and what is being dropped, plus the usual debate between members about what is good and what isn't (the Israeli programmes are puerile, imvho).
Don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to.
Post by Berry McPaper-cuts on Sept 2, 2019 7:05:22 GMT
Thank you Nellie but I will give it a miss. The Sunday Times Culture magazine is my bible on Walter. Anyone watching the Italian one on a Friday night? I reckon the detective killed her Dad, not the mother!
The Scandi ones are getting a bit samey now, I think the French Spiral is my favourite, and Montalbano of course. There's a Belgium political one that's good too, can't remember the name.