During a snowy Christmas season in Sweden, psychologist and profiler Inger Johanne Vik finds not only herself but also her autistic daughter drawn into the investigation of a number of disturbing deaths, through which she meets detective Ingvar Nyman at the Stockholm Police. Nyman is dispatched to Uppsala to investigate the shocking Christmas Eve murder of bishop Elisabeth Lindgren. In Stockholm, the bodies keep turning up - though the causes of death vary. But before long, Inger Johanne starts noticing a pattern. Modus is a thrilling story that raises questions about religion, human rights, and the very nature of love itself. It goes beyond conventional crime and peppers the story with red-hot political issues and criticizing intolerance. |
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Ratings: | TVMaze: 6.9/10 | |
Released: | September 23, 2015 | |
Runtime: | 60 min | |
Genres: | Drama Thriller Crime | |
Countries: | Sweden | |
Companies: | TV4 Miso Film Sverige | |
Cast: | Kim Cattrall Krister Henriksson Greg Wise Simon J. Berger Alexandra Rapaport Melinda Kinnaman Henrik Norlén Marek Oravec | |
Crew: | Peter Thorsboe Mai Brostrøm | |
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Good series. Highly recommend it…but I’ve got some criticisms and observations as well. Spoilers beyond this point.
In regard to the first season, I’ve few if any complaints. The acting and story were handled very well. The relationship between Vik and her daughters was explored in an emotionally compelling way. The threat that her daughter was under from the killer was a constant tension even at times when you knew the killer was in other locations. Very fraught and well done, with an interesting set of twists.
The second season is where much of the “good feels” created in the 1st season begins to break down. In the first season, Vik is presented as a strong career woman, a successful writer and psychologist specializing in crime, who has managed to raise 2 daughters, one of whom is “on the spectrum” and finds herself as the witness to a murder.
In the 2nd season…Vik is none of these things. She begins the episode in an obvious state of advanced pregnancy….and were her character true to her previous 1st season persona, she would have been extremely protective of her well-advanced unborn child….yet she is not. She CONSTANTLY places herself in dangerous or stressful situations. Admittedly it makes for exciting drama as you wonder “How is she about to trigger her pregnancy and lose the baby THIS time?”……but all of this runs counter to her previous well-demonstrated care and attention that she gave to her daughters in the 1st season….both of whom are virtually absent throughout the 2nd season. She also demonstrates a number of other character changes from the 1st season that diminish her role as a strong female lead. In particular I’ll highlight one point. Major spoiler here. Specifically the scene where she tells Warren that she has reported him for rape to the Swedish police…and is now effectively ruining him. The problem I have with this scene is that he just…not a few minutes before in the show….saved her life, the life of her friend at the police, and the President of the United States from an assassin….even stopping her friend from assaulting him by pointing out that “He just saved us all”…..and then 15 minutes later she’s lost all gratitude for the saving of her life, and her unborn child? The assassin had the gun pointed Right At Her Belly. One shot and the baby would have been gone….and Warren stops that….yet now she’s completely indifferent to this??? That struck me as a major flip-flop in how her character would have reacted in the first season. She had kept silent for 4 years about the rape….but then finally outs the guy who just saves her life, and her baby’s and the President of the United States??? It came off as discordant. So be aware that while it is worth watching, you may find yourself liking her character somewhat less in the 2nd season. Still worth seeing.
The 2nd problem I have is in storyline. It’s understandable that Swedish TV in 2016 (the show is copyrighted 2017, so was no doubt filmed in 2016) would believe that Hillary Clinton would be President…and that they would make the character of the President a woman. But at some point during filming the real results of the election must have occurred, and a subtle shift in the story line occurred. If you’ll notice the character of Bohman as the Swedish Prime Minister, you can see that he has been made to be very “Trump like”…in a stereotyped form. He is made to be a misogynistic, emotionally combative, and physically similar in appearance in shape and size. His role with his female deputy that he makes the press liaison feels like an afterthought contribution to the show….likely filmed after the election results in the US and inserted into the final draft. And this rather ham-handed attempt to write a plot which elevates his aide to become the 1st female Prime Minister of Sweden ends up shedding no glory on her…or on the idea of Hillary doing a similar thing in the US. Because in order to get Bohman to resign, she black mails him with a threat of revealing that he had granted the spot of task force investigator to a former SAPO female operative who had been tortured and raped in Syria. And she ultimately turns out to be the bad guy on the 2nd season. But Bohman had given her this position because she had acted as a true and faithful operative of Sweden. A woman who had endured a great deal of suffering….and now the Prime Minister’s office was trying to “do right by” her in placing her in a top position on the Presidential visitation Task Force. The fact she turned out to be the bad guy was unknown to Bohman at the time he appointed her. So the aide who blackmails him is basically blackmailing him for having recognized the sacrifice of a female operative for Sweden…and giving her a top position. It’s not his fault that she was altered by her experience in Syria. This plot seemed like a rather forced one….as I say, it feels like it was inserted after filming and after the US elections….all to make a female become the 1st Prime Minister of Sweden. And it robs a lot from the plot and makes this aspect seem disjointed.
Overall though, it’s a series worth watching…in spite of the criticisms I’ve mentioned…and I’d recommend it to anyone who likes strong female characters as lead characters, and the Nordic Noir crime genre.
You know when your local hoopla (digital library) has a foreign crime drama on its offerings, you know it has to be a good one! This one is and even though subtitles drive me crazy (I can’t work on anything because I have to read the subtitles), I will tolerate them for a good movie or tv drama! I’ve already requested links for the 2nd season and hope someone soon will upload the 2nd season. I’ve said this before, the Brits and Europeans know how to do tv crime dramas and are far, far better than what we have to put up with here in the USA!
Brilliant !! Thank you for posting it !! _ 10/10