Forbrydelsen (The Killing) [** Spoilers, Season 1 & 2 **]

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pickarooney wrote: »

Hamarinn (The Cliff) - Icelandic mini series
Ornen (The Eagle) - Pan-Scandinavian detective series

Borgen is supposed to be good but I haven't got around to watching it yet.

Borgen is absolutely fantastic. I couldn't recommend it highly enough. For me it has eclipsed The West Wing in many ways and is definitely better than Forbrydelsen though I loved that too. Borgen deals with well drawn,interesting political issues but it also weaves through this the personal lives and sacrifices of the people wielding the power in office,in the media and behind the scenes. There is none of the formulaic irrelevant sex scandals or the lazy "goodies v's baddies" storylines that so often prop up these kind of shows. It is thought provoking intelligent drama.You won't be able to peel your eyes away from the screen or a second.

TwoShedsJackson

Are the BBC showing the second season of Borgen any time soon?

Temaz

I saw the novel of the original 'The Killing' in Eason's today, basically it's season one so I'll pass on it but if an original story comes out in the future I'll be first in the queue for it.

adox

pedantic.pat wrote: »

Not sure if this has been mentioned previously. For anyone who enjoyed Forbrydelsen there is a new Danish/Swedish Tv series called the bridge.

It was on BBC4 a few weeks back. I finished it last week. I really enjoyed it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1733785/

Thanks for that suggestion brian_t will check that out.

Anyone any other scandanavian tv series recommendations?

Finished this earlier in the week and loved it.

brian_t

TwoShedsJackson wrote: »

Are the BBC showing the second season of Borgen any time soon?

See the Borgen thread.

The Black Oil

Anyone find that they want to use 'tak' in ordinary conversation because of these shows?

ejmaztec

The Black Oil wrote: »

Anyone find that they want to use 'tak' in ordinary conversation because of these shows?

Nej.

pickarooney

Selvfølgelig

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Undskyld
The Danish must apologise more than any other nation. Undskyld is used at least 10 times per every episode of every series.

Anyone else notice that these shows are so engaging that you forget that you're reading subtitles and are surprised you dont understand the spoken dialogue when you look away....or you don't notice the occasions they break into english while you are watching.

Bonus point for anyone whose noticed their swear word of choice btw!

pickarooney

With Meyer out of the equation I missed the constant streams of Pis!
For helvede! is pretty good though.

I love the bits where you finally think you're starting to understand complete sentences and then you realise it's a Swedish character talking and pronouncing all the letters.

brian_t

Forbrydelsen, series three - first review

It won't hit British screens until later this year – but, at an international screening in Copenhagen on Monday, the first episodes of the long-awaited third series of cult Danish detective drama The Killing were finally revealed.

Like the first two series, it has three interlocking plots: the crime, the police and the political.

First, meet Robert Zeuthen, one of Denmark's richest men and the power behind Zeeland, a multinational shipping and oil conglomerate. Robert has recently divorced Maja, and wrestles with his conscience as their two young kids, Emilie and Carl, come to terms with the split. But not even the divorce can explain why Emilie's cat allergy is playing up, when neither parent has a cat.

Then there's Kristian Kamper, Denmark's centre-right prime minister who – like all politicians in Nordic TV series – is facing an election. The financial crisis isn't helping his chances of re-election, and neither is a front-page news story reporting that Zeeland is planning to move away from Denmark to escape its taxes. Can Kamper rely on Zeuthen to scotch the story and help him win re-election?

And yes, the Centre Party are back too, with their Stephanie-Flanders-esque leader, Rosa Lebech, playing hard-to-get with her allegiances. Meanwhile Kamper's personal life gave rise – at the screening, at least – to the first ever use of the word "shagging" in The Killing's subtitles.

Over at police HQ, Sarah Lund is through with shooting bad guys and looking for a cushy office job, in a pair of heels and a cream-grey-brown V-pattern jumper that's almost low-cut. But that's until craggily handsome Mathias Borch turns up, once Lund's beau when they were at the police academy, now a senior member of special branch, national security section.

A dismembered body has been found down at the docks on the day the prime minister is due to visit, which makes it Borch's business as well as Lund's. And is that a Zeeland ship over there in the harbour?

"Zeuthen and Zeeland rank with royalty," says returning police chief Lennart Brix darkly, and thus begins another heart-stopping case for Lund. She's helped not only by Borch, but by a wet-behind-the-ears detective called Asbjørn Juncker, who's desperate to make his name in CID – just as Lund is desperate to escape.

Fortunately, Lund still has her Sarah-is-thinking piano riff to help her, as well as a whole new bit of very rousing and thumpy incidental music which tells us that A Clue Is Coming. In these first two episodes, Lund's always-desolate personal life becomes almost too heartbreaking to watch – and then, of course, there's the horror of seeing her tiny frame go into battle alone. Especially when so much violence and gore awaits her.

And yes, for The Killing's diehard fans, I can confirm that lots of police will once again be searching the woods with torches.

If season two of The Killing, with its highly militaristic storyline, slightly lacked the emotional heart of the Birk Larsen family in season one, then season three is a return to this series' best form. British audiences are in for a genuinely rare treat when it comes to BBC Four in November.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/tv-and-radio-reviews/9549886/The-Killing-series-three-first-review.html

It's going to be one of the highlights of the Autumn.

Sheela

Can't wait!

Thought this was a good article on why Irish TV can't make a similar show to the Killing or Borgen: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2012/0917/1224324088561.html

Richard Dower

lol....AMC really fluffed up this show, they coulda had a winner but hired that eejit Veena Sud.

The Black Oil

Season 3 will be on BBC 4 next month. http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2012-10-08/the-killing-3-to-air-from-november-on-bbc4

Woo.

The Black Oil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGXL6fAtosQ

Looks like business as usual. :cool:

Paddy Samurai

Just finished watching the box set, a fantastic series 10/10 IMO.
Lots of twists and turns and the Danish cast were top notch.
Hope to get season 2 when the price drops.:D