My cuppa. I love international dramas and especially Scandinavian (Beck, etc).
I watch this with subtitles - never dubbed. Please watch it with subtitles if you can.
This is Swedish and it is luxurious how it unfolds for us along its four episodes. Brilliantly done covering many years and very poignant. At first the makeup may seem a bit odd - trying to make the main characters younger than the actors are but you quickly accept it.
The focus is on the development of genealogical forensics (if you've watched the documentaries on it you'll know it has revolutionized police work).
In this case it's taking place in the EU, which has far stricter controls than the U. S.
At any rate this is based on a true story and it's fascinating stuff. The two main characters are acted so well. And in fact all the acting is fantastic.
The four hours fly by and this becomes a rare thing (for me) that I wished it was longer. I did not want it to end.
Speaking of the ending there's a very nice twist as to who the murderer is, which I greatly appreciated. I love clever endings.
I gave it a 9 and not a 10 because there's a bit of an insidious agenda about people who live alone - loners - being messed up. It's a weird and disturbing bias. And it bothered me quite a bit. It's almost "racist" in a way - that "loners" are not quite right. At one point in a discussion they actually say it out loud: that there is something wrong with "loners".
But don't let that get in your way of enjoying this! Highly recommended!
