Huss - Verbrechen am Fjord

I love this show, interesting characters, realistic crimes and reactions.

Its not exactly Scandi noir because it's city based - but it has the strong female characters of Scandi noir along with a pacey police procedural. I've no idea why it's not more highly rated, it's Definitely worth your time.

The acting is strong, there's a true underlying essence of how and why the police stick together in the worst of situations because no one should really need to make the decisions they do under extreme pressure of day to day policing issues, really it's no wonder Post traumatic stress disorder is so prevalent in the forces, realistically there's major issues with how it's set up.

The demise of most TV series like films is a poor script and that's the big problem here. This appears to be a spin off or sequel to a 2008 series "Irene Huss", I never saw it. As a previous reviewer said, this series wants us to believe that a trainee cop is given all these special assignments, because the trainee is so intelligent and her mom is a high ranking police officer The lead character Katarina Huss makes plenty of dumb mistakes as would be expected from any trainee. If she had been a highly intelligent university student in criminology or a close subject, it would be more believable but this series jumps the shark. That she's the hero of the episodes is stupid.

I tend to enjoy European police procedurals, but other than some beautiful locations and a few good actors, watch "Beck" or "Wallander" (Swedish or British versions) if you want to see good Swedish police dramas.

This was really good. I like that they tried to make it very realistic. Like the series "The thin blue line". Very good. Where is season 2,3,4,5..?

Keep it up with this series!

Particularly the Scandinavians have learned to produce (and like?) police series with strong yet feminine policewomen trying and often succeeding in contriving in the men´s world... But the novelty has passed and the quality often depends on the cases to solve and on the performers to catch the eye (or not)...

I can´t say that Karin Franz Körlof is too pleasant to follow and the cases she is involved are not too interesting either, in come cases I could guess the wrongdoer at an early stage. The "big secret" as a certain leitmotif through all episodes was also somewhat trivial. On the other hand, I did not have high hopes here, thus I am not disappointed, and the inclusion of performers not being part is every Swedish series is a plus as well. Thus, 7/10 seems reasonable.

The idea is good. Modern policing from a trainees viewpoint ... pretty frightening.

What lets it down is Huss finding herself as part of a investigation team only days after having joined the uniformed force as a trainee.

It is the same in episode 2, although worse. Huss seems Hell bent on losing her job. Again she is drafted into the homicide team. Sleeps with the boss, joins a police vigilante team and constantly goes her own way and disobeys orders.

It continues in this vain and get worse throughout the series.

It is disappointing because the idea and crime stories deserved more.

The character of Huss is just not credible as is her involvement in the cases in the first few weeks of of her "training". The ending is just a joke.