Modus - latest BBC4 Scandi Noir anyone?

[GrumpyGregry]

Bit unconventional but what to people think?

 

[swee'pea99]

I was out & missed it, but I've heard good things about it and plan to catch up on iPlayer.

 

[Hill Wimp]

Yep looks good so far. Looking forward to the story unfolding and it's still up to the high standard of drama we have begun to expect from the Scandinavians.

I can see the possibilities already that there could be more than one series in this which is good especially as the lead good guy is rather lovely.

 

[MarquisMatsugae]

It's seems the fashionable thing to do these days,watch Nordic crime /drama/whatever tv.
Watched a bit of this and decided it was no better than Mahabharat.
And that was pretty dire.

 

[perplexed]

We love the Scandi stuff, but haven't seen this yet - we've recorded it though...

 

[DaveReading]

Looks quite classy.

I'm fully expecting Wallander to solve it

 

[Dayvo]

I can promise you that real life in Scandinavia is nowhere near as exciting as found in all the crime TV dramas/books.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I watched it, and quite enjoyed it, but I'd say it was far from unconventional within the genre. It had all the tropes: female victims, craggy-jawed mysterious perpetrators, what appears to be deep autism, amicably divorced parents under stress, sexual tension between the two main investigators. I might watch a bit more of it, the production values are high, but I have got a bit bored with the repetition of Scandi noir to be honest.

Agree with all that, apart from the bit bored bit, perhaps because I'm in love with the locations and the portrayals of Stockholm (and Copenhagen/Malmo), and their peoples, in these shows.

Its unconventionality lies in our already knowing who the killer is surely?

 

[GrumpyGregry]

[QUOTE 4574856, member: 259"]I'm still waiting for a scandi remake of Noggin the Nog, with Fares Fares as Nogbad the Bad. [/QUOTE]
He was okay in Kvinden i buret.

 

[smutchin]

I enjoyed it but it's not in the same league as The Bridge.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I can promise you that real life in Scandinavia is nowhere near as exciting as found in all the crime TV dramas/books.

I'd have to say that in my time as a long(ish) term visitor to Stockholm and Copenhagen, and despite, to the horror of my colleagues, having visited bits of cph and Malmo that no nice middle-class Dane or Swede would ever consider safe to visit, I felt more threatened the last time I was on a train back from Crawley, where I grew up, than I ever did anywhere in Scandi.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

If anyone wants a really unconventional Scandi police procedural.... Jordskott. (Or series one of Arne Dahl, with the wizard cleaner)

 

[smutchin]

But knowing who the killer is, is also a trope - the worst recent example, although not Scandi, was The Fall (which was also full of the same tropes).

I liked The Fall, but agree with you about the tropes. It's clearly been very influenced by scandi noir.

And I was going to make the sane point in reply to GG about knowing the killer but you beat me to it.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

What you're in love with is rather what I meant by production values - the acting is always really good as well. But knowing who the killer is, is also a trope - the worst recent example, although not Scandi, was The Fall (which was also full of the same tropes).

Yes, that's it.. production values. Aided by Stockholm being a stunningly beautiful city. Venice of the North? Nah. Venice is the Stockholm of the South.

Didn't see either series of The Fall. As to the acting, it is very good but one challenge, as alluded to elsewhere, is the tiny gene pool of Swedish actors and remembering which character they are playing in which show and not thinking "Oh it is her/him from... " every time a new character is introduced. One thing that really impressed me with the gene pools of both Denmark and Sweden, board treading wise, is how amazing the ones I've seen are on stage, doing Shakespeare. Those girls and boys really can act.

 

[smutchin]

Btw, talking of tiny pools of actors, the husband of the bishop was in the last series of The Fall as a criminal psychologist.