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Yep, and it showed.Ī few peers and seeders later and we plugged in the USB to fire up the Danish version. Wasn’t this show Danish? If so, why did all the names sound so un-Scandinavian? We watched the opening thriller sequence in which a woman is chased through the woods to her impending, yet unseen demise, followed by an introduction to what was no doubt our blonde, good-cop female protagonist, looking strong, capable, quietly determined, fit and utterly in control of her life, out for a morning jog. When we first sat down to watch it, we were a little baffled. Forbrydelsen, it was clear from the start, was not merely good, it was the shit. If there was a spectrum of quality, measured primarily on realism and characterisation, then this show sat roughly eight miles along from the best English crime drama, with its American counterparts so far behind those as to be only detectable by their own implausibly neat forensics techniques. Indeed, I’ve long been spmewhat disgusted by the pornographic and gratuitous manner in which they titillate their audiences with lurid details of rape and murder so akin to the base and irresponsible reporting of the commercial news channels and rags we foolishly grant the title of newspapers in Australia.įrom the moment we began watching Forbrydelsen, however, it was clear that something very refreshingly different was going on. The sheer amount of second-rate CSI-type pap out there has, quite rightly, made me extremely wary of the genre. I’d heard a number of anecdotal reports about what a great show this was from my parents and various others, but hadn’t quite separated its potential stand-out quality from my general dislike of crime dramas.
#The killing danish and american mom leaves series#
Last week V and & finished watching the first series of the renowned 2007 Danish crime drama Forbrydelsen, aka The Killing, written by Soren Sveistrup. The following review contains some spoilers…