Wallander
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Author Henning Mankell's popular Swedish sleuth, Kurt Wallander (Kenneth Branagh), comes to life in this gripping suspense series based on his best-selling books. The British-made program relates the exploits of the brooding detective as he investigates baffling crimes and struggles to cope with living as a divorced bachelor while managing fractured relationships with his aging father and temperamental daughter. (BBC)
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Wallander (2008)
Probably no other character from a series (or movie, for that matter) is as intense as Branagh’s Kurt Wallander (aka walking Scandi depression). It is him in combination with a powerful atmosphere and melancholic music, not to mention camera genius, make this an unforgettable crime series, even though the cases in themselves are no genre gold-dust that you wouldn’t come across elsewhere. And you can hear the paper rustling a little and they are pretty darn predictable. By which I’m not saying that they are bad or just average (apart from the rather dumb, but not bad episode Firewall). This applies for season one (4/5), during season two (5/5) the impression gained from individual episodes improves considerably thanks to their “Dürrenmatt-esque" approach. But it doesn’t matter anyhow, because the cases don’t start being important until season two. Season three (4/5) continues in the same vein as season two and is even better in details, but in the crime part is even more paper-rustling and predictable. This changes none of its qualities again, but the rather unsuccessful attempt at a change of style and genre during his trip to Riga meant a step down from the pedestal of highest quality.
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