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I am writing this at the end of series 2 (assuming a third series won't be necessary).

The show never has any pace, little in the way of action and long drawn out conversations that could be cut to a couple of minutes.

The first season isn't too bad but series 2 which I am sure was filmed with great difficulty during lockdown (watch the man and woman leave the train wearing facemasks at the end of s2e7) is quite poor.

I have just list around 8 hours of my life plodding through this after hearing that Eagle Eye drama is making an English version (the scene at a petrol station was filmed during a fuel crisis).

After seeing English versions as well as the excellent originals of Professor T and Before We Die, I wanted to see if this was top quality too Unfortunately, I was let down. The Danes didn't bring home the bacon.

Like the dodgy series 3 of Professor T, series 2 of this was hard to find - and for good reason.

The show seems to nowhere but you watch, disappointedly, in hope.

Hopefully James Nesbit and Niamh Algar (among others) can bring some life to English incarnation.

Should have been a movie, but Mr. Boe is always up for good acting and a great story. A great crime story, but would have been better as a movie with good action points.

With some episodes around 25 mins it was still a hard watch. Characters took turns in dialogue whereas in the real life a couple of questions and an answer would have solved the problem. I can't recall the first season being as painful to watch. I can't recommend this show, there's so many better options.

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.

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.