An elderly poet impaled on fence spikes, followed by the disappearance of a flower collector – it sounds like the typical ingredients of a Midsomer Murder cock-and-bull tale. But where the country folk treat savage murder with a sardonic twist of the lips, over in Sweden it gets the full-on misery treatment.
No apologies for returning to Wallander (BBC4), the only viable alternative to ball-chucking, pike positions and ribbon rippling this weekend. The only gold Rolf Lassgård (the original TV version of Henning Mankell’s detective) would nab is in the Walrus Lookalike competition.
He grumps his way through cases like a bear with a sore toe – and he was just what was needed after the adrenaline spikes and heart-rate roller coasters that have turned my sofa into a sweaty wreck these past two weeks.
Read more:http://www.metro.co.uk/tv/reviews/908142-wallander-is-midsomer-murders-with-a-dose-of-swedish-misery
2 comments:
Kenneth Branagh is brilliant in Wallander or maybe I should have just stopped at Kenneth Branagh is brilliant!
Agree with you on both
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