Broadchurch

Broadchurch (2013) 

As a detective story it’s a little fail, because it uses a typical "cowardly candlestick model", it piles up distracting motifs, and you will only guess the killer if you involve experiences with a similar genre tactic in the game. Which I didn't really want to do, as I had hoped that this maneuver would be avoided by the creators. The construction of the figures, the level of episodic storylines and the concept of the main characters is at a higher level, and so is the elaboration, which uses rich color and light contrasts, gloomy half-details for the characters in the bleak landscape, and asymmetrical framing. Yes, Wallander and the Nordic detective story come to mind thanks to the model of the detective plot and the hidden motive. Broadchurch is at its best through its own unique aspects - a well-drawn community, a turbulent level of overly peaceful lives, ambiguous work with an incest motif and, above all, excellent detectives who honor the Nordic antisocial model, but also translate it interestingly into somewhat more sentimental island notes. Tennant's rat face is an exact match, as is the run-of-the-mill face of Olivia Colman. In the end, I get the irrefutable impression that Broadchurch works as a drama a little better than The Killing (above all, it is not looking for its own identity as much and offers more interesting perspectives on the psychological and the social level - media, community), but as a detective story it managed to assume its shortcomings in eight parts. The evasion is unfortunate, even if it is clearly defined by the format. Even so, I’ve moved into that town emotionally up to my ears. [85%] (26.01.2014)