I haven't yet seen any of Wallander other than in the BBC series, and those six episodes, each of which has the feel of a movie, are just wonderful. We get a really original, refreshing (though not upbeat) detective series, with a pace and feel I've never seen before on American or British television.
Among the highlights -
- Kurt Wallander almost always feels directly, personally responsible for the murders he investigates with his team, and he's sometimes right
- the cinematography of the Swedish countryside is breathtaking, and in a class by itself as far as what we usually see in even the best visual presentations on television
- the Swedish police are a lot less trigger-happy than we Americans, but they're not afraid to use lethal force when necessary, and what we get is a very good take on an alternate mode of policing
- the Swedish public, at least in the Wallander series, are a lot more disrespectful of the police than the average citizen in the US and (from what I can tell from British series) in the UK, which also makes for an unusual dynamic.
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Branagh's BBC series is good, but it pales in comparison to the original Swedish Wallanders, which have been showing in the UK alongside the Britsh version.
Well worth hunting down the Swedish-language ones if you enjoyed the BBC version.
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