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Post by roverpup on May 24, 2020 0:21:43 GMT
We are watching a Danish crime drama at the moment called Forbrydelsen (translation: The Crime) known as The Killing. Wonderfully terrifyingly suspenseful and exceptionally well acted.
One of the stars is Lars Mikkelsen, who of course was part of the Sherlock cast in the role of Charles Augustus Magnussen. But all the cast is evenly excellent.
If you haven't seen it and you enjoyed The Bridge, this is a good one to catch. For any Canadians on this board, you can watch it by registering at British Columbia's public Knowledge.ca. It's free of charge and commercial free (although they do ask for donations if you feel so inclined.
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Post by MagdaFR on May 24, 2020 13:07:44 GMT
We are watching a Danish crime drama at the moment called Forbrydelsen (translation: The Crime) known as The Killing. Wonderfully terrifyingly suspenseful and exceptionally well acted. One of the stars is Lars Mikkelsen, who of course was part of the Sherlock cast in the role of Charles Augustus Magnussen. But all the cast is evenly excellent. If you haven't seen it and you enjoyed The Bridge, this is a good one to catch. For any Canadians on this board, you can watch it by registering at British Columbia's public Knowledge.ca. It's free of charge and commercial free (although they do ask for donations if you feel so inclined. I mentioned The Killing (Forbrydelsen) some years ago along with The Bridge (Bron/Broen) when you commented on Marcella (which I didn't like).
I think they're both the best of Scandi noir.
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Post by queenzod on May 24, 2020 16:36:29 GMT
Well, I鈥檓 a decade late to this party, but I鈥檝e spent the last month watching The (American) Office. Just finished it last night, and what a payoff! Seasons 7 & 8 (out of 9), were a little tedious, with wacky people being very wacky, but the last episode more than made up for it. Such a beautiful ending! Sad, funny, wistful, touching. I cried like a baby and feel great today. 馃槂
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Post by mllemass on May 24, 2020 19:50:03 GMT
I never missed a single episode of The Office. A lot of people I know gave up on it along the way, but I stuck with it. Before they aired the finale, people suddenly wanted to catch up so they鈥檇 be able to watch it and know what was happening. I loved the show, even with the cast changes. Martin Freeman has said that he really liked it, too, and that it might be better than The (British) Office that he was in.
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Post by queenzod on May 24, 2020 21:18:59 GMT
I didn鈥檛 watch the American version because I loved the British version so much, but I鈥檓 so glad I eventually did! It鈥檚 different. Steve C. wasn鈥檛 as much of an arse as Ricky G. was (or maybe he improved more rapidly, but the romance between the Pam & Jim characters was soooo much better. I have a little crush on John Krazinsky now. What a doll. 鈽猴笍
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Post by mllemass on May 24, 2020 22:12:44 GMT
I did the same thing - but I avoided the British version because it couldn鈥檛 possibly be better than the American. But I was wrong, and I鈥檓 so glad I finally did watch it! It was so well done, and it covered basically the same storyline but in fewer episodes. The American version stretched out the stories and filled in areas that the British version didn鈥檛 have time to do. Both were excellent!
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Post by roverpup on May 24, 2020 22:42:22 GMT
Well I had a somewhat similar situation. We started watching the British version of The Office and really didn't like it and then reluctantly switched to the American version (I rarely like the American adaptations of anything) and LOVED it.
I've always wanted to go back and rewatch the British version but Dan is reluctant (he disliked it more than me), so I will probably have to see it on my own someday.
But returning to the original topic of this thread, there is an American version of The Killing but Dan doesn't want to watch it because he can't envision it being worthwhile (because he holds the Danish version in such high reguard).
The characterisations are so nuanced and so deep, I honestly can't see an American version equaling this version.
The star character of the show CID Lund is soooo intensely human and often wrong in her assumptions! And yet the way it is written you still root for her and feel for her when she makes massive blunders.
Sherlock she isn't!
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Post by sgev1977 on Jun 3, 2020 3:35:32 GMT
I haven't watched The Killing nor a lot of Nordic noirs stuff. I watched a few episodes of the American version of The Bridge, tho. The one I watched was this Icelandic series called Trapped. I enjoyed it A LOT but mostly for the wrong reasons! I mean, I guess it is good and the two main actors are very talented and sympathetic but the characters seemed extremely naive to me so I was literally laughing during very dramatic scenes! The concept of the series is that an ice storm happens to this little island and people are trapped there for months because not even planes could arrive. At the same time the rural police finds a corpse. Well, they found just the trunk of a corpse and suddenly all the citizens there are very nervous because someone was killed! It's understandable but I was thinking: imagining living in a place in which people are almost hysterical because just one person was killed! Just one murder in years!!!! I probably hear of at least three murders here today and I wasn't putting attention! Surely there are more! That's not funny, I know. That's actually very sad but I chuckled when the teen characters are almost too scare to go out and when someone just can't sleep because the fear! Neither of them saw anything or knew the victim. They just heard someone was killed! Then there is this Captain of a big ship, from which probably the corpse was thrown out, that is very rude to our heroes (the policemen). He clearly is hiding something and don't let them to inspect the ship. They are very kind and just retire when he claims they would need a few international warrant search orders. Not just from Iceland but from a few countries! I thought: "wow, if they were Mexican cops, they would had arrested that bastard right there without any order! And immediately accusing him of the crime... even if he is innocent (SPOILER: he was! He isn't the killer!). Then "heroically" announce to the press that they quickly resolved the crime! But those cops were just incredibly nice and innocent! The series is very grisly but the police force members are the noblest and most decent creatures in the world! The three of them! Yep, there are just three policemen. It's a very small town! They are also kind of incompetent: suspects easily escape from them, other suspect horribly commit suicide in front of them and at certain point, the human trunk is stolen from them! They don't have a morgue because apparently people not just aren't murdered there but also rarely died or something so they put the corpse in the butcher's freezing room (it didnt seemed very hygienic to me!) and first a teenager enters there and takes a photo and uploads the image on social media and later someone just steals it! It's so horrible but I was laughing when that happened! Actually I'm laughing right now writing this! It doesn't help that all of them are incredibly serious and that the tone is in general very dark and solemn! I watched a few episodes of the second season, too but by them it seemed they become more familiar with crimes and they are much more competent so it wasn't the same!
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Post by MagdaFR on Jun 3, 2020 12:32:05 GMT
I didn't watch Trapped. Do you know how many people live in Iceland? They're just 364,134 inhabitants.
Also: That from an article of 2018:
From 2019 (only one more):
Here in Uruguay:
This was till April. This is from the past days. Men killing women and children. There are more for other causes.
To say nothing of suicides.
That's why I said that we aren't the paradise in South America.
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Post by MagdaFR on Jun 3, 2020 14:05:01 GMT
Anyway I was going to post some shows of the same kind or similar. Most are (or perhaps were on Netflix).
1) Bordertown/ Sorjonen - It麓s from Finland. Sorjonen is the lead character. I don't know if he is supposed to be autistic but he's kind of odd. He's supposed to be a genius as a detective. His wife gets diagnosed with cancer, she's apparently ok in season 1 after treatment but gets worse in the following seasons. They decided to go to the frontier with Russia to the town where she is from. Each story last two or three episodes so it's easy to watch.
2) The Valhalla Murders/Brot - From Iceland. It is based losely on a real case (not the murders but the reasons).
3) There is a Canadian show from the "French" part that is called La Faille/The Wall but I don't rememeber where I watched it. Their French is rather difficult to understand.
The snow, the ice, the extreme cold are so alien to me that only for that I found them very interesting to watch.
4) Not Nordic Noir but with similarities is Zone Blanche/Black Spot which is Belgian/French. It is set in a village rather apart from the rest of the world because in part because sometimes it has no signal. There is a forest which plays a major part and it is a mixture between crime thriller (mostly) and horror. There is a long arc that sometimes is related to the cases.
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