Veronika

What on earth was Alexandra Rapaport doing in this? She can't be short of a bob or two from her work in Murders in Sandhamn. Perhaps she accepted the commission without reading the script. Whatever the reason, her presence couldn't redeem this mixture of fantasy and tosh. We watched as a woman who was clearly mentally ill was allowed to continue working as a policewoman after two previous hospitalisations for psychosis. All the time we were being asked to believe that delusions of dead people appearing were actually real and were aids to solving murder cases. I've got news for the scriptwriters. Delusions are just that and the illness causing them needs to be treated.

I realise why the mental illness angle was pushed so forcefully. There were no actual clues in these cold cases susceptible to police work so the hallucinations had to be used to solve the case.

In the result this was a totally unbelievable scenario that should have either been binned or rewritten.

Just as an aside, I had never realised how tiny Rapaport is. The men in the series towered over her, particularly her screen husband.

I sat through the lot but it got more ridiculous as it went on. I'd advise giving this a miss. 2 stars because I got to the end.

But not in a good way.

The writing is appalling and so naive that it makes the first year film students look like professionals.

I doubt these amateurish has any idea how lame and unoriginal their work.

There is Zero dramatic talent - only dull and uninteresting scenes one after another.

And how the many so called producers weren't capable of seeing how this material was is a pure mystery.

Perhaps they were themselves inept to judge its underdeveloped storyline.

It truly pains to see these actors wandering around without any sense of direction.

The look is adequate and the overall production as well - but shame on the quality of writing and poor direction.

A complete waste of everyone's time.

Must admit that the Nordic Noir genre is not my favorite. It happens far too little in general and in Veronika it's really tough, to say the least. I like Alexandra Rapaport as an actress but this role playing a pill abusing cop is not her best. She is not convincing in her role and sometimes the acting feels exaggerated. The dialogue between the actors is far too slow and far too little happens. However, that they brought in actors who are otherwise relatively unknown in swedish film is a plus. The serie is okay to pass the time on a Sunday when it's raining or if you want a background sound when doing something else.

Veronika is probably one of the best recently released Nordic Noir shows within the last 3 years. Although it is not an extraordinary serie such as Wallander, The Bridge, The Killing or Beck, it is still worth watching. The uniqueness of this serie is that it combines Nordic Noir with Victorian Ghost Stories so it is an interesting mix. The atmosphere of this series is eerie, dark and even creepy and nature of Sweden is as usual stunning. Alexandra Rapaport and Tobias Santelmann are acting as usual great. If you have not seen Sandhamn Murders and Gåsmannen by Alexandra Rapaport you should definitely watch them. I think that this serie worths 8 over 10.

Too slow paced and unoriginal series. When seeing a only the first few episodes of this series I got the feeling I have seen it all already sometime before. Couldn't put myself to watch it until the end. So tiresome it gets annoying. A minimum of at least six hundred characters is required to submit a review, but man... It not even worth all the typing. Three episodes in and I still have the feeling it's not going anywhere and on the other hand you already have a pretty good feeling of where the story and character development are heading towards. I'm not going to spoil anything because for die hard Scandinavian detective series this might still be worth watching.