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It was "relocated" to Latvia cos that's where the book was set
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i enjoyed the first episode, but this was so boring, what happened to his girlfriend, no explanation as to where she and her son went to. The story was just muddled and did not seem to be any point to anything except that the merry widow wanted to get into Wallander's pants at every opportunity. It was like watching a program on pause and just as depressing.was looking forward to this and even KB was not up to his usual depressing best
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The best I could say about this was that it was "average"
Branagh's acting in this has never impressed me, but it must do something for the director, the number of unnecessary close-ups we get of his face. |
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I don't get it - the base stories are excellent, the scenery is stunning (although there wasn't much of that tonight), Branagh is a terrific actor... and yet it just doesn't work. I was really bored, and couldn't follow the story (and I'd read the book in the last year).
I think sometimes though, important plot points get just a line of dialogue in adaptations. The hidden drugs in the raft a case in point. |
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If you watched last week, you don't have to be a genius to work out why his lady friend is no longer in the picture.
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Her character's name in the US The Killing was Christina Nilsen, a Scandinavian name I would have thought?
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If you watched last week, you don't have to be a genius to work out why his lady friend is no longer in the picture.
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If you watched last week, you don't have to be a genius to work out why his lady friend is no longer in the picture.
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The books have all been filmed out of order and they've had to change a lot of the personal relationship stuff.
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Better episode this week....and Rīga looked stunning...in a bleak sort of way.
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If you watched last week, you don't have to be a genius to work out why his lady friend is no longer in the picture.
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Me too! I had forgotten 'Meyer' was going to be in tonight's and grinned when he appeared.
Funny how they assume a British audience will buy a Danish sounding person as a Latvian though. |
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i didn't she would hang around after they went to the counsellor,
Run, (insert female friend's name here) run! |
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"I have a daughter about the same age as you". What a chat up line, Kurt! What gal could resist that?
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"I have a daughter about the same age as you". What a chat up line, Kurt! What gal could resist that?
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"I have a daughter about the same age as you". What a chat up line, Kurt! What gal could resist that?
He thought she was a Brass trying to chat him up, he was trying to get rid of her politely. Obviously later on we found out she was using it as a cover to speak to him as he was being watched. |
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How many Brits would know what a genuine Latvian accent sounded like anyway??
I remember who's who while it's on, but forget the names about 5 minutes after it finishes. I finished off last night with Stig Larsen film too. |
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Who looks after Jussi when he's away, now that she's jacked him in?
Every time Kurt is called away in the book, he relies on his neighbour to look after Jussi. It happens so often in the end that the neighbour asks if Kurt wants to sell Jussi to him, but he declines as Jussi is his only company. |
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Did anyone notice the painting on the wall of Kurt's hotel room in Riga? Looked like another one of his dad's efforts!!!
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For the first time Wallender bored me last night. I don't know if my mind wandered off a bit because I thought it was so boring or the storyline was generally boring. After an hour and a half what happened? was the Russian mafia killing people or the Latvian police? The last series was gripping and I enjoyed the first episode of this - I hope it is better next week.
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For the first time Wallender bored me last night. I don't know if my mind wandered off a bit because I thought it was so boring or the storyline was generally boring. After an hour and a half what happened? was the Russian mafia killing people or the Latvian police? The last series was gripping and I enjoyed the first episode of this - I hope it is better next week.
Not sure what to make of the Fisherman business/decoy, then again not that bothered, best forgotten. |
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Slower than a week in the jail, as they say........
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I hope you're joking, if not.
He thought she was a Brass trying to chat him up, he was trying to get rid of her politely. Obviously later on we found out she was using it as a cover to speak to him as he was being watched. |
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Ahh. He seemed to be getting quite a lot of action with the ladies for some unknown reason :/
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Come on... He's Kenneth Brannagh!
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Funny how they assume a British audience will buy a Danish sounding person as a Latvian though.