No sooner had another Danish drama arrived over here, in the shape of Borgen , than the trick pulled off so spectacularly by Forbrydelsen - no doubt reinforcing its quality of writing and direction - had started to become more difficult. As characters became familiar actors again, then audiences were abruptly brought back to processes of illusion-shattering recognition: "What's Troels doing in the police? Oh, that's Sanne as the wife. Katrine Ries Jensen, played by Laura Bach, is our central identification figure: a female cop dedicated to her job.
At times it all feels a bit like Prime Suspect meets Waking the Dead , with subtitles. Katrine is aided by Thomas, the academic profiler type who's given to musing out loud about issues of omnipotence and control doesn't everyone know an academic like this? In their first case together, "Corpse in the Woods", Katrine gets rather too involved in proceedings and finds herself becoming one of the killer's potential victims - a plot twist that would be surprising only to someone who had never previously watched a serial killer narrative.
Despite such rehashing, Those Who Kill is well-made, classy drama that balances ongoing character arcs with individual cases, and becomes more interesting in later stories as we gain further hints about Katrine's past, and as Thomas adjusts to police work. Change preferences.
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I've just watched the first episode bringing together Katrine Jensen, a young, rebellious and ambitious detective and an outside profiler turned lecturer, Thomas Schaeffer, with unsatisfactory experience of working with Katrine's Super on previous cases. I can't think why, when in this episode, one relatively minor mistake apart, he uses his instincts to track down the murderer just in time to rescue Katrine from his clutches. The visual style is hardly different from its predecessors either with grisly crime scenes and the pitting of wits between good and evil filmed in a grey, grimy backdrop.
I found the story rather raced to its conclusion and took too many giant leaps in the continuity process with some unaccountable actions by all the major participants. That said, if was grittily realistic and reasonably gripping throughout. I'm sort of hoping there will be no romantic entanglement between the two leads to distract from the detective work although to be fair, this didn't happen in "The Killing" or "The Bridge".
I like that the leads too seem to have less "strange cargo" to carry too. I don't mind a bit if background shading but really just want to watch a thrilling mystery show without the sometimes obligatory emotional baggage.
I've the rest of the first series to watch and will do so soon, going by what I saw here. BeneCumb 18 April True, there are some fine performances - Lars Mikkelsen in all the episodes and Ulrich Thomsen and Kim Bodnia both in 2 episodes, but the overall pace is sometimes uneven, sometimes protracted; there are 5 different stories over 2 episodes each, and the 1st part of every story includes a summary what will happen in the second episode - annoying for a crime drama where moments of surprise carry a significant weight.
All in all, the series in question is not bad, but it is definitely overshadowed by the series mentioned above. Much as I like Danish crime dramas, for me, Those Who Kill, has some conspicuous flaws that can not be overlooked. Perhaps the biggest is how easily the criminologist who supports the key female lead in the first episode is "blamed and written off", by her boss when things turn pear shaped.
This is in spite of the fact he leads the team to the killer's lair in the first episode and he's in no way to blame for what transpires, thereafter. This is explained somewhat in latter episodes but still, it all seems a bit of a stretch. There are other examples that are implausible too, such as intentionally taking a child into a dangerous armed hostage situation.
That's not to say Those Who Kill is not watchable. It's well acted and and directed. Some of the episodic stories premises are novel too. That said, those positives are let down to a degree by some not insubstantial weaknesses in the back story. Six out of ten from me. I guess every country that produces series for TV will have its own version of the "B grade film".
This is the Danish version without a doubt. The acting is terrible with the lines being delivered as if they are read from a teleprompter. Denmark must have a very small pool of actors because one sees the same actors in all their episodes Having said that, they seem to have a stock of stereotyped "creepy guy actors" who always play the creepy guy in all the Danish series. If one looks closely, you also see the same with "medical" personnel in the hospital scenes in the different series.
The writing for some of the episodes is childish at times and has the actors behaving strangely and making really silly decisions that a trained law-enforcement professional would not do. Also, I realize the Danes do not have a big film budget but they really need to do better with the action and stunt scenes. It's not possible to beat someone up and see not damage to their faces during the process and that is only shown in the next scene. Takes away the credibility. This series is really suitable only if you have nothing else to watch and you just want to fill an hour or two.
This series was a very traditional teaming up of a police homicide unit with a criminal psychologist, just like Cracker! The murders were complex and gruesome and mainly resolved within the episode. The acting was brilliant the stories unpredictable and yes, whilst there were some quite ridiculous plot twist this was sacrificed for the story. Laura Bach was great as was Jakob Cedergren, they should have made some more series. I think this is a firm 7 out of 10 for unpredictability. The Scandinavians do some of the very best dark and thoughtful dramas on tv today, ok so perhaps there maybe some flaws in continuity, when they find the body of Julie, and shes lying the other way to how she was placed by Anders, but is extremely watchable none the less, one of the best out there.
I am a huge fan of Scandinavian mysteries. Thanks to MHz and a membership to their streaming service, I have an enormous number of series available to me. While most are about bad events happening, they can be quite beautiful and "airy. It is gritty and at times shockingly unpleasant. The Swedes and Danes and Norwegians and yes the Finns have no compunction to showing awful things like the murder of children.
So as a viewer you need to be prepared for that. Moreover, terrible things can happen to major characters.
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