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Post by goodhelenstar on Oct 24, 2020 9:15:10 GMT
Starting tonight, yet another Danish crime drama import, this time from the pen of Torleif Hoppe who was the writer of The Killing and The Bridge (and also Those Who Kill, but no one's perfect). The cast includes Nicholas Bro from The Killing and 1864, and, curiously, Charlotte Rampling. The star, Anders W. Berthelsen, was also in The Killing but I don't remember his character so perhaps a small part. I won't see it tonight but will look out for reviews.
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Post by geometryman on Oct 24, 2020 9:49:00 GMT
I'll definitely be watching, though maybe not tonight. It looks like more my thing than Montalbano which has just been in the time slot (and which I did watch but not that enthusiastically).
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Post by marion on Oct 26, 2020 15:38:46 GMT
I have only watched part 1 and I deeply mistrust the forensics guy. However..... And its a big however....... This Rolf needs the loo on a ferry. It is pouring with rain, bridges are closed, the ferry is pitching badly, so he parks the pram ON DECK! And then goes to be sick in the loo leaving her there. 😱. And thats just the rolling overboard risk, not the child abduction risk!
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Post by geometryman on Oct 26, 2020 22:08:53 GMT
Me too! Maybe not so much after part 2 but I'm still suspicious!
I agree about leaving the pram on deck - that, and really the whole business of him having to take baby with him on a ferry in foul weather, seemed highly contrived and implausible.
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Post by goodhelenstar on Oct 27, 2020 15:32:24 GMT
Have watched episode 1 and agree the forensics chap, Jarl (Nicholas Bro, who really does need to watch his weight), is a bit too helpful and smarmy. But why would he have a sideline in abducting children – people trafficking? The ferry was already docking when the abduction occurred – otherwise it would have been a foolish place to abduct anyone when they could have searched the whole ferry with everyone still on board. It's hard to see how Jarl could have taken Andrea and concealed her somewhere in the timeframe. Unless he masterminds them and someone else does the actual abducting.
I also agree about the series of coincidences that had to happen to bring about him being on a ferry with his daughter and becoming separated from her. I did think though that the storm was all too believable, and I really felt for him being seasick!
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Post by goodhelenstar on Oct 27, 2020 23:00:35 GMT
The second episode took me back about 30 years to when I worked in north Jutland and regularly drove along that road, which is the only road between Frederikshavn and Skagen right at the northern tip of Denmark. It's as far from Copenhagen as you can get within the same country, and the locals are regarded with great condescension by those in the capital. So Rolf really was taking a downward turn by going to work there - which seems to be a trope amongst Danish coppers as Sarah Lund did the same thing, if you recall.
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Post by marion on Nov 1, 2020 17:16:37 GMT
I am enjoying this. I thought it would be a bit sluggish at first but things chug along nicely. I like the young policewoman, Neel. It was a bit obvious that the nuns would be up to no good, and in what way, but it is still good I think.
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Post by geometryman on Nov 1, 2020 22:56:39 GMT
Just caught up with episodes 3 & 4 and also enjoying it, more than I did to start with.
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Post by gowergirl on Nov 2, 2020 11:45:50 GMT
I'm really enjoying it too.
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Post by goodhelenstar on Nov 2, 2020 12:26:48 GMT
Hard to take Jarl seriously as a criminal mastermind, but it is beginning to look that way. Either that or he's incompetent. Had to smile at Charlotte Rampling assuming Rolf would take care of her suitcase at the airport – very un-Danish! I expected him to leave it there. But he is being presented as Mr Nice Guy.
Neel falling asleep in her car, twice, seems unprofessional, but it's a heck of a long drive from northern Jutland to Copenhagen, even with the bridges. It would have taken her all day, or all night.
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Post by goodhelenstar on Nov 10, 2020 22:49:40 GMT
Just caught up with Saturday's episodes. My goodness, the different timelines are confusing! But I will get my head around it eventually.
What is really intriguing me is why the team have set up their incident room in what looks like the laundry of the police station. Is there really no space elsewhere? The Danish foster parents didn't bat an eyelid when they were ushered in there to be interviewed, so perhaps it's normal!
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Post by geometryman on Nov 10, 2020 23:28:00 GMT
It gets better, and is now quite exciting. I'm looking forward to the final episodes on Saturday.
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Post by marion on Nov 11, 2020 9:07:52 GMT
I think they did give some explanation for why they are in the laundry! I can’t remember it though.
These timelines. I nearly fell off my chair when the Nasty Old Nun said that was five years ago. I had assumed it was concurrent. Did I miss some obvious clue, or IS IT concurrent and the nun was lying? I wouldn’t put it past that lot to put lies on the paperwork. Have the police spoken to Julita’s grandmother yet? Actually I couldn’t really work out why she went there in the first place. I would have thought that the chap’s family would be interested in providing for the offspring of their deceased and much adored son and the grandmother didn’t seem horrified by the pregnancy.
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Post by goodhelenstar on Nov 11, 2020 21:21:03 GMT
Julita's boyfriend's family were very quick to pressure her into having a termination and they didn't approve of her - not good enough for their son. So I'm not sure they would want her to proceed with the pregnancy and it's clear they were not supporting her.
It was stated that her grandmother's house had been empty for some time, so presumably the grandmother has died and it was indeed 5 years ago that the events in the convent happened. That would make her daughter 'Urzula' five years old, much the same as Rolf's daughter.
If I understood properly, Rolf was told that the young girl with red hair was not biologically his - I wonder how many French children, or Danish children, who are trafficked, have red hair?
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Post by geometryman on Nov 11, 2020 23:10:51 GMT
Yes, by Claire Bobin in the belief that the document brought along by the Beaulieus' lawyer proved the girl was the result of an above board surrogacy performed in Canada. Hmmm. Despite the title of the series, there hasn't been an awful lot of DNA testing done yet.
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Anymore to come?
