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In the middle of the night, far north in Norway at Finnmarksvidda, the Sami teenager Elle Jannok is on her way home from a party, when she finds a cell phone ringing. The phone belongs to a missing girl, Sofie. A couple of days later, the local police discover Sofie's body in a caravan three hours south of Finnmark.Maja Angell, who is studying at the University of London, is defending her highly debated doctoral thesis on criminology & profiling as she hears about the murder case in her old home town in Northern Norway. She defies all warnings and leaves the University to travel North. She has a message for the local police: the man charged with the murder, is not the killer. But no one's willing to listen to her theories. Not until Maja dares to delve into her own most dangerous, repressed memories of childhood will she be able to stop him and soon she realize that the killer is closer than she ever imagined. |
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| Ratings: | TVMaze: No Rating | |
| Released: | December 27, 2020 | |
| Genres: | Drama Thriller Crime | |
| Companies: | HBO Nordic Shuuto AS | |
| Cast: | Stein Bjørn Hanne Mathisen Haga Marius Lien Jonas Delerud Eila Ballovara Varsi Erik Smith-Meyer Kim-Runar Klodiussen | |
| Crew: | Raymond Enoksen Arne Berggren Rikke Ennis Kristine Berg Viktor Enoksen Nina Erdahl Magnus Berggren Kjetil Jensberg Sondre Sandbakken Helene Aurø Hans Jacob Brun Frost 1 more Benjamin Mosli | |
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This is worth a watch if you don’t mind subtitles, and you appreciate the rural, slow paced Nordic Noir a la “Wallander”. Beautiful photography of Norwegian wilderness in summertime. Plenty to chew on during the eight episodes with the main female character being given strong and complex personality.
i really liked it, some “piss me off” charactera
and an ending with unanswered questions (Argh)
I liked the piss me off characters, very well played and very effective at pissing me off.
Started out slow but developments in the middle pick up the pace a lot. The lead starts out whiny-unlikeable at first, as it unfolds she becomes sympathetic and you start to relate and understand (that’s real life, isn’t it). Very well done.
There is some excellent writing and acting in here. It’s uneven - many things I liked a lot, and many things I didn’t. Overall, I think it’s a great watch and I’m happy to believe that we will be getting better and better stuff from HBO Nordic from here on out.
Pros: Some nice twists: I’ve seen a lot of procedurals and while some of it was completely predictable, in several places it caught me off guard. Maya’s character: at first she’s practically a cartoon, arrogant and unlikeable, hostile, suspicious of all men - by the time you get through a couple more episodes it swings into focus and it’s all very clear where it comes from. You assume she’s flawed due to temperament and attitudes, you find out she’s flawed due to damage that’s been done to her by her family and community. Maya’s mother: five stars - this actress performs the most realistic portrayal I’ve seen of a manipulative, self-medicated elderly dementia patient. Her character does an artful dance between the self-aware sudden flashes of anger alternating with indifference provoked by her daughter, and the feigned helplessness which keeps her drug habit going. Elle, who opens the series and becomes the second story line running through the plot, is full of the optimism and self-confidence that makes small-town characters believe they are wise to the world and then recoil from the cynicism she’s forced to face. She’s the perfect balance against Maya.
Cons: The criminal with the cleft palate. A disability stigma that goes all the way back to the dark ages, runs through all of Shakespeare, up through the Victorian era, and is still alive and well today. The demonization of people with disabilities is utterly deplorable. He pissed me off every time I saw him and it distracted me from the plot. I kept thinking, why did this actor accept this role? The police chief: I kept waiting for him to develop in some way that would pull him into the plot, for the narrative to give him something that explained why he’s an obstacle and why I should care. It didn’t and I didn’t.
Nope, not for me! It’s not the pacing that’s unappealing, it’s the acting, editing or writing…one or all three? This is not the usual high quality, Nordic Noir like Wallander.