Swedish Wallander Series 2

Damn I can't remember if I've seen this one (with so many repeated showings its hard to keep track, this is the 5th outing for this episode!).
 
I was searching iplayer in vain too. I was interrrupted halfway through watching on Saturday and wanted to catch up on what I missed. We get iplayer on Virgin Media (though not everything is there) but as of an hour and half ago, when I was checking for it whilst eating breakfast, it wasn't there. A few weeks ago it was on line almost as soon as the programme had ended. Strange. It seems odd that there might be a copyright reason if previous episodes have been up (and subsequent ones).
 
Yep, it was a great series and I hope Yellow Bird do more episodes with the current cast - they seem perfect for the roles.



I wouldn't mind if BBC 4 also repeated series one and also showed the original Swedish TV series with Rolf Lassg
 
Interesting that the BBC4 announcer introduced Wallander as a "super-sleuth". Kurt actually seemed very slow on the uptake last night. I found the episode very pedestrian and also worked out the plot well before the half way point.

I'm a bit concerned that Kurt's new comfortable existence - house by the sea, new dog, new car, potential love interest next door, no edgy daughter - contains all the seeRAB of another soap. Now that the originality of the Swedish setting is wearing off, there will need to be some stronger plots that this to keep the series on the boil.
 
I want to see series one now as I really enjoyed this. I found the dvRAB on German Amazon but it keeps mucking up my home address by adding about 1000 to the house number!
 
Do you really mean that?

I always thought that longueurs meant 'A tedious passage in a work of literature or performing art'

Come to think of it, the Branagh version is tedious and boring;)
 
Thank goodness something to write about in these forums at last! (I just cannot get into the 'reality' shows, quiz and cooking ones!)
Just watched the 1st ep of series 2. Although it takes more concentration because of subtitles, it was abolutely brilliant as was Series 1.
I love the fact that the actors are so normal - no Hollywood types, or glitzy actresses. Acting is very naturalistic and I do prefer the Swedish version of Wallander. Much as I admire Branagh as an actor, I can't stand his Wallander. All tears and emoting and 'poor me'...
Poignant moment when Wallander was asked if the photo on his desk was of his daughter. Didn't show that poor actress's face and he just said "yes" very quietly.
She is a sad loss. I miss Stefan too but I think the new cast will work well.
 
It's funny you should say that, Twister's Twin. I notice sometimes they don't do a direct translation from the Swedish into the English subtitles even when that would make perfect sense. It's a bit much cos you hear one thing and read a different thing!

I've also noticed in a previous episode where they didn't translate some graffiti into English even though it could have helped the understanding of the plot a bit. I assume they thought people might be very mildly offended. :confused:

I shall definitely be watching next week though! :)

PS I thought the recent body under the playing field episode was excellent.
 
I have both series recorded on DVD , except for the Cellist in series two.

I record them with a Topfield and then archive them to DVD. For some reason the recording stopped 15 mins in, when the prisoner started on the other side.
 
Hi there - couldn't find the edit button so I've binned the original post. Due to a cut and paste error I missed out Season 2, Episode 1 - Hamnden (The Revenge) which got the cinema release, not The Guilt.

Discshop.se and Megastore.se do the box sets with English subtitles.

Season 1 and 2 are 3 box sets each, however episodes 18-26 do not have English subtitles - I emailed Yellow Bird to see if they have any plans to release them but no reply yet. The sites are quite easy to navigate using Google translate but Megastore seem to have cheaper postage at 10 Euros. [They are also selling episodes of Beck for 2.50 Euros at the moment. I've ordered them to give it a go. It looks like episodes 18-26 of Beck have the English subtitles - 25 and 26 are new and pricey at the moment.] Tusenbroder with Ola Rapace seems to be critically acclaimed but the only one with English subs at the moment is an abridged feature-film version of Season 3 available from Amazon.

Anyway, back to Wallander. The correct order is:

Season 1
Before the Frost (Innan frosten)
The Village Idiot (Byf
 
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