A few more episodes like this, and I'll be ready to jump myself.
The eternally depressed, played out Wallander is back, miserable as ever, living in a farmhouse with his girlfriend Vanja in "An Event in Autumn." The police detective is called upon to investigate a murder on a ferry, where a pregnant girl either jumped or was pushed. Then he finds a skeleton in his garden that has been there around ten years.
With the help of his neighbor, he finds the former occupant of his home, who is a real piece of work, a violent man whose own daughter went missing ten years earlier and who pimped out his daughters and used to pick girls up and turn them out. Turns out the pregnant victim isn't the missing daughter, though, who is alive and well and living in Arizona.
After talking with the daughter, Wallander is finally on the trail of the real murderer, involved in both killings, and who knows how many more? A dark atmosphere and a heaviness pervades the Wallander stories, and there are Pinter pauses in the dialogue you could drive a truck through. Since that is correct for the plots and the character of Wallander, the episodes are absorbing and the mysteries quite good. Kenneth Branagh is wonderful as a man trying to be happy but is too pulled down by the horror he sees in his work. In one particularly gruesome scene, a policewoman he is working with is bludgeoned by Petraus, the ex-neighbor.
Highly recommended but don't have any weapons in the house.
The eternally depressed, played out Wallander is back, miserable as ever, living in a farmhouse with his girlfriend Vanja in "An Event in Autumn." The police detective is called upon to investigate a murder on a ferry, where a pregnant girl either jumped or was pushed. Then he finds a skeleton in his garden that has been there around ten years.
With the help of his neighbor, he finds the former occupant of his home, who is a real piece of work, a violent man whose own daughter went missing ten years earlier and who pimped out his daughters and used to pick girls up and turn them out. Turns out the pregnant victim isn't the missing daughter, though, who is alive and well and living in Arizona.
After talking with the daughter, Wallander is finally on the trail of the real murderer, involved in both killings, and who knows how many more? A dark atmosphere and a heaviness pervades the Wallander stories, and there are Pinter pauses in the dialogue you could drive a truck through. Since that is correct for the plots and the character of Wallander, the episodes are absorbing and the mysteries quite good. Kenneth Branagh is wonderful as a man trying to be happy but is too pulled down by the horror he sees in his work. In one particularly gruesome scene, a policewoman he is working with is bludgeoned by Petraus, the ex-neighbor.
Highly recommended but don't have any weapons in the house.