Cara a cara

If you're a dad with a young daughter with whom your relationship is fraught with challenges, this series is compelling viewing.

I am surely missing the point or the cultural savviness, but this is a completely unrealistic scenario, with repetitive 'interrogations' of people giving titbits of info, and daddy overplaying his part. We were looking forward to this series but got quickly bored.

Some parts are great. Acting is great. Cinematography is great. A little repetitive in scene structure. As per usual with Mr. Boe, I'm slightly bewildered at the end. A need a little more.

The approach is really something: the subdivision of episodes, the wrongdoer is almost maintained until the very end (which could have been more sophisticated, though), catchy twists and turns (well, sometimes at the expense of realism as Denmark is among the least corrupted countries in the world), the inclusion of 5 of Top10 contemporary Danish actors (Thomsen, Dencik, Mikkelsen, Lie Kaas, Dyrholm)... Really nice - and intensive, following the real traditions of Nordic and British Noir.

Perhaps not as meaty as e.g. Bron/Broen, but close. And another good opportunity for Ulrich Thomsen to show his greatness and versatility.

It is refreshing when something doesn't follow the norm, but it has to work.

This is an attempt to present a police enquiry in a different way, but it ends up being too fragmented due to essentially focusing on the main character with a different character in each episode. And the main character isn't exactly a barrel of laughs!

It goes around in circles and in the the end was the beginning, so to speak.