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I should say first that few people in the US have even heard of this show. I saw it only because I happen to have Viaplay, the streaming platform that specializes in Scandi dramas. Indeed, it is so little known here that when searching for it on IMDb, only the Swedish name appears, not "Thin Blue Line." Hopefully, it will gain an audience in the US.

It's hard to think of a TV series that is both so raw and unsentimental at times, and yet so human and touching. The casting was first rate. Unlike American TV, where cops often look like fashion models, Amanda Jansson (Sara) and Gizem Erdogan (Leah) both look like everyday people; yet it's their characters that are beautiful. And I hate to single them out, because the acting is superb across the board in this drama; all the characters are interesting, and all are sympathetic in their own way.

I suppose one could say by way of criticism, that all the action is compressed in the show. The crimes come fast and furious, one after the other, and the show communicates none of the pace and boredom that goes along with policing. But that's okay; it managed cram a boatload of professional and personal crises into each episode, leaving me engaged and wanting more. Now, I've only watched the first season, so I can't speak to the second season, and the third season isn't even available to me at this point. But I'll give it an appreciative 9.