A grisly murder on the bridge spanning Sweden and Denmark brings together two odd couple detectives. The Swedish policewoman is brilliant and driven but blind to social niceties whilst the Danish cop is gruffly likable and old school in his policing methods. The murderer employs improbably convoluted means to apparently bring attention to social inequity.
This is underscored by locations where the privileged are seen in their smart architect designed homes and the homeless surviving in plastic shelters on bleak waste grounds. The downbeat mood is appropriately filmed in a monotone low key palette and pauses between the action are filled with poetic long shots of the cities of Malmo and Copenhagen beneath lowering skies.
After viewing episode three there is an unavoidable feeling that this series is set in the tradition of Scandinavian crime pioneered by the writing team of Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo and furthered in more recent times by the Wallander and Unit one television series. A more understated approach would have been preferable to the drama that at times suffers from hyperbole but I am looking forward to the coming episodes nonetheless.
This is underscored by locations where the privileged are seen in their smart architect designed homes and the homeless surviving in plastic shelters on bleak waste grounds. The downbeat mood is appropriately filmed in a monotone low key palette and pauses between the action are filled with poetic long shots of the cities of Malmo and Copenhagen beneath lowering skies.
After viewing episode three there is an unavoidable feeling that this series is set in the tradition of Scandinavian crime pioneered by the writing team of Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo and furthered in more recent times by the Wallander and Unit one television series. A more understated approach would have been preferable to the drama that at times suffers from hyperbole but I am looking forward to the coming episodes nonetheless.