A scene from the Danish TV series “The Killing.” Photo courtesy of Topic Entertainment.
This subtitled Danish TV crime drama series “The Killing”(original title “Forbrydelsen”) will impress you as either riveting or tedious, depending on how much time you want to spend on this binge. Like most European crime series, this one is more cerebral than visceral. Their fictional cops just don’t get into as many fights and shootouts as our made-up heroes. It runs 20 hours of a single, extremely complicated homicide, compared to the norm of solving such cases in an 8 – 10 episode season.
Sara Lund (Sofie Grabol) is a Copenhagen detective on her last day before moving to Sweden with her beau and son. She’s assigned to one last crime scene to break in her replacement, Detective Meyer (Soren Maling). The body of the young woman they find shows such prolonged and brutal treatment that Lund...
This subtitled Danish TV crime drama series “The Killing”(original title “Forbrydelsen”) will impress you as either riveting or tedious, depending on how much time you want to spend on this binge. Like most European crime series, this one is more cerebral than visceral. Their fictional cops just don’t get into as many fights and shootouts as our made-up heroes. It runs 20 hours of a single, extremely complicated homicide, compared to the norm of solving such cases in an 8 – 10 episode season.
Sara Lund (Sofie Grabol) is a Copenhagen detective on her last day before moving to Sweden with her beau and son. She’s assigned to one last crime scene to break in her replacement, Detective Meyer (Soren Maling). The body of the young woman they find shows such prolonged and brutal treatment that Lund...
- 8/13/2021
- by Mark Glass
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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