I think they were hoping she'd look like / be a Carrie Mathison (Homeland) and she just isn't...

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There's been some debate here about what Modus actually means in this context. They actually used the word when they were viewing the five bodies but it wasn't apparent from the subtitles. I will have to watch that bit again, but I think they were discussing the "mode" (actual translation) or "method" of killing in each case, their differences and the similarities that tied them together.

I've just finished series 4 of Braquo, it was avaiable as a boxed set in our Virgin package.
Highly recommended if anyone wants to give it a try, but also extremely violent.

I think Modus has been pretty average. Better than a few of the recent Aussie offerings, but certainly not up there with the best of scandi noir. I don't imagine the Swedish police enjoy being depicted as so dim as they appear in this series.

It's a good thing they didn't go down the expected route of making the openly homophobic cop the murderer's sidekick

Yeah. You can never have enough misogynistic vocabulary in your repertoire. Good for you.

Jesus.

Excellent episode 6, tying a lot of the loose ends together immediately before we hit the home straight. It's probably a technique from The Big Book of Crime Serials, but still welcome.

That used to annoy the heck out of me.

Not now though......I have completely forgotten what wax in the preview a day later

So is it safe to assume that the person that took out the contract with "1+5" was either



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Think u r right. Initially when the pathology woman said Modus I thought she meant Operation Modus as if that was the working code they were using to group together the killings.

I found the subtitles on episode 6 awkward to read, too much white text on a light background . Look forward to the final episodes tonight, I'll record and watch later. Hope Stina and the homeless graffiti girl survive (not much hope for the latter I feel)

All a bit sensational and I don't reckon the profiler much of a responsible mum. She's more interested in being with the Whose Doing The Dishes fella and/or catching Ray Liotta Jnr than phoning her daughter, as well as ignoring the younger one. Still worth the watch though compared to some.

I fell asleep during the last half hour. Did I miss an exciting end?

Yep; I'm not going to spoil it for you but I'd suggest looking at BBC iPlayer asap.

It was a gripping police thriller throughout and more of the same please, BBC Four.

I can't get iplayer as I'm not in the uk.

Will season 2 be shone here in the UK?

Modus was based on the latest novel of Norwegian author Anne Holt so maybe a one off ,no second series .

Nah, kinda fizzled out if truth be told. Feel cheated after investing 8 hours of my life in it.

It was interesting as opposed to exciting partly because we have known for some time who was perpetrating the murders and why, and partly for a particular plot device at the end that IMO defused the tension instead of ratcheting up.

I am slightly fed up of every Scandinavian perpetrator being a mad right wing Christian religious nut job. Their TV is so politically correct. There is huge tension in much of Europe over Islamic terrorism and extremism, criminal refugeeism and mass immigration with cultural dissonance caused by a lack of birder control and apart from France every other country runs a kilometre from these relevant issues. Instead usually only the far right is shown to spawn the devil. Good TV drama reflects reality, Scandi Noir has got stuck in a rut. Plus the guy who ran BBC Four and started all this left years ago and his replacements have bought erratically. The Australian stuff should never have been shown in the same slot plus several of the series have not been up to scratch.

I applied the test of "If if was a UK production and not subtitled from Swedish/Danish/whatever, would I have stuck with it and enjoyed it?" Answer, yes.

I liked that the heroine, when the actress no doubt could scrub up like a TV star, looked like an ordinary woman.

Huh?

Bit of an anticlimax.
Completely non believable that she would not have a car that worked given her job and her vulnerable daughter.
The whole thing with the daughters and hitch hiking was daft.

You smack a blokes head against a wall and he dies, smack a woman's and she brushes it off.

Yes, it was a strange series. I was quite enthusiastic about it in the beginning, it looked to have the makings of something really interesting. But the further it went, the more ridiculous and irritating it appeared to become.
I found the lead character and her lover to be extremely dull and unlikeable. That wouldn't have mattered if they had made up for it by being smart in their respective professions. But they weren't, it's hard to remember them actually "doing" anything apart from taking a long time before finally deciding to take a shower together. Oh, and gazing at her laptop, she was good at that.
Promised a lot but didn't deliver, that's my verdict.

Completely unbelievable that you would not notice a headlight not working - in a well lit town street maybe but not out in the complete dark of the countryside. Not to mention the clanger that the interior shot from her car showed both headlights working.

I was hoping for a more psychological-based solving of the case with Stina gradually being able to reveal more and more of what she knew.

Yes!!! I thought she was going to be the KEY
Afer 8 weeks I felt the end was rushed too

I was also puzzled as to why she had to hotwire her car. Surely that's only what crims do when they need to steal a car and don't have the key?