Good series. First half of S3 is currently available, not seen it yet.
Finished the second (half) series of Wisting, i.e. the first 4 episodes of Series 2.
And getting bored with the storyline in the first half of Series 3.
Murder in Sweden - set in Gotland, an island east of Sweden in the Baltic Sea
Deadwind on Netflix - set in Helsinki
Kleo is back…still seeking vengeance.
And…finished.
Maybe we’ll get another.
Any on SBS you can recommend?
[I have not seen any Turkish shows since the royal wedding back in the 1980’s. The ABC and EVERY commercial channel had that on. For he young ones here, of course that was before the invention of the internet so no streaming and there were not even any VCRs (ask your parents about those). The only show that was on was an execrable Turkish movie on SBS which ws preferable to the royalist propaganda. We were right considering how well that marriage turned out].
I watch them on Netflix. I’m not sure what’s on sbs. I shall sus it out.
Tons of Turkish series and movies on Netflix.
The one European nationality you don’t on Netflix is Portuguese. Two shows, and one set in the Azores, Rabo de Peixe, and the other being a Cold War drama, Gloria.
Currently on three northern series, having given SBS’s Wisting from Norway a rest in series 3.
First is the Swedish series Maria Wern set on Gotland in the Baltic Sea. Binge has given it the anodyne series name Murders in Sweden. Three series 2, 5 and 6, with poor continuity. In series 2, Ek is murdered and Arvildson is tracking down his last cases which may have had him killed, concerning the murder years before of Maria’s policeman husband. In Series 5, Ek is back, and Arvildson looking permanently wounded. In Series 6, all three are on deck. Nearly finished.
Second is the SBS series Bäckström with a maverick inspector tracking down the discovery of the skull of a woman who’d been confirmed dead in the tsunami in Thailand.
And the third, Deadwind on Netflix, set in Helsinki…always snowy, but with the hottest main detective Sofia Karppi with her male offsider, Sakaro Nurmi. Onto the second series which has connections to a political corruption in the building of a tunnel from Helsinki to Sweden.
And have added Fallen (a Swedish cold case with Sofia Helin) and Helsinki Crimes plus the famous Nordic series from a decade ago - The Bridge, Borgen etc. Watching 5 or 6 episodes - 1 of each - per night.
Back onto Wisting and The Paradise (Acorn) set in Fuengirola on Costa del Sol in the Finnish winter community there.
Should finish Wisting, Backstrom and Darkwind shortly.
And this one is mostly English language but contains a German detective talking to German tourists in English on Palma, Mallorca where Catalan and Spanish are the spoken languages. Bäckström is down there in my last episode, so they might meet up. This is the third series, now on Prime, previously on Foxtel.
And just started Borgen…I know it’s 10 years old, so added Danish to the collection.
Finished Darkwind. That was intense, but Sofia Karppi (Pihla Viitala is hot, despite all that heavy winter gear).
Started another old one, The Killing (Forbrydelsen) but a touch concerned that it’s going to disappear from SBS On Demand soon. It’s more interesting than Borgen. Looks like Sarah Lund is struggling to move over to Sweden.
Finished Helsinki Crimes. There might well be more since the 2nd series was made pretty recently.
Looks like all 3 seasons expire in 2 weeks. Been on the platform a very long time, though.
S1 is a masterpiece, one of the very, very best. 2 & 3 not quite to the same standard but still better than most.
The daily commute to Sweden must be a bastard.
If I hurry, I might finish Series 1.
I saw the US version years ago, set in an extremely rainy Seattle, and wasn’t taken with it. They wouldn’t like stuff like that, with their aversion to ambiguous, non-happy endings.
I now have 5 eps to go in S1. Haven’t room lights hit Denmark. Every shot is gloomy as f***. Get a good suite of downlights in there.
Finished S1 last night. The last two episodes were particularly gripping, particularly when the public prosecutor was involved. Just concerned with any offences the police committed and not interested in getting a true result. “Yeah, we can get a conviction here, Don’t worry about whether that’s the true culprit”.
Lund’s range of those big woollen jumpers was impressive…I believe they’re front the Faroe Islands, and look very similar to ones from outer islands in Scotland and Ireland.
If I’ve got another week or more, I might squeeze in Series 2.
My late mum would have been disappointed in the ending. “Well, why didn’t they tell us what sex the teacher’s wife’s baby was”. Not that she would ever have watched a series in a foreign language, or indeed, on SBS.
Watched the first episode of S2. Looks like yet another of those…military hunts down anyone who exposes war crimes by that military…so won’t be continuing.
They were so notable that they were even featured in an episode of AbFab - so shows how old that series is.
Just finished the first series of Darkness: Those Who Kill…a Danish series with Louise Bergstein, played by Natalie Madueño, as a psychologist, helping the police hunt down a couple murdering girls. 4 series of 8 episodes.
Second series is Spies of Terror, French series based on their spy network tracking down terrorists after Bataclan attack in late 2015. 90 victims. Quite similar to The Bureau.
Third series is Wilder. Rosa Wilder is back home in her Swiss mountain village, when an Arab developer’s daughter disappears so she stays behind to lead the case.
All on SBS.
And caught up with The Paradise, the Finnish Spanish series set in Fuengirola, a Costa del Sol town west of Málaga.
There are many Finnish people who made their money from Nokia and spend summer on the Med, but someone is murdering the Finns and and an older Finnish woman detective comes to investigate. Funny thing here is the translators just subtitle as “speaking foreign language” when the only languages are Finnish, Spanish and their connecting language, , English. So whoever’s doing should speak both Finnish and Spanish.
A few series finished since the weekend
Wisting S3 (Norwegian SBS)
Those Who Kill S2 (Danish SBS))
Wilder S1 (Swiss in German SBS)
Signore Volpe S2 English and Italian Acorn
Signora Volpe stars Emilia Fox and means Mrs Fox
Bit of a break before resuming a couple
Will give Joan a run on Stan. Dropped today starring Sophie Turner as a thief.
My partner has got me reluctantly (don’t judge me!) a little hooked to a Japanese reality show on Netflix called Ainori: Love Wagon. There’s two series (an Asia series with two seasons & an Africa series with one season). It was a very popular show on commercial TV in Japan during the late 1990s and 2000s which has in the last few years been relaunched by Netflix. I’m over halfway through the Asia series.
Basically a range of people (usually 6-8 of them between about 22 and 36 years old) travel around in a pink bus (“love wagon”) and are given a very limited daily budget (about ¥1200) and forced to survive together… and really rough it. They travel through places like Myanmar, Uzbekistan, Nepal - not really your standard destinations for much of the time.
Their only way out? To fall in love with one of the other contestants and admit their love to them for a ticket together home to Japan.
It’s everything crazy you could imagine from a Japanese reality show.
Subtitles, yeah, but even some understanding of Japanese helps here. 楽しむ
Clive James put me off watching any Japanese “reality” shows 30 years ago, and to be safe I’ve extended it to all Japanese content.
Their TV is “sickfucksville”
This is a lot tamer compared to a lot of the ■■■■ I’ve seen/heard about!
Huge gaps of logic in the plot of that series.
For example, the mother of one of the victims puts up a huge reward that gets noticed by everyone in the public. She gets a gun to defend herself but doesn’t use it. But the police don’t think to put a guard on her house. Then she gets murdered straight away. Then the police reckon it’s a suicide. Then… etc.
Latest instalment of Sandhamm dropped on SBS on Demand yesterday. S10, 3 90 min eps. Should be worth a look.
I looked at imdb.com and it didn’t include this latest series.
Alexandra Rapaport has been off making Veronica. Not that interested in watching series about cops addicted to opiates.
Well underway now…well, they went there.