Swedish Wallander Series 2

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Got to agree with you there, anyone who hasn't seen Das Boot has missed a treat, also Cinema Paradiso and a series I saw in Gaelic which I won't attempt to spell but translated as Crowdie and Cream about a boy growing up in the Hebrides or Shetland. When the story's good the language and subtitles don't matter.:D

oh Crowdie is a Scottish Cream Cheese BTW:D
 
I find his new superior and her family quite irritating. I wish she might go the way of one kurt's cars. ;) Unless she gets involved in a case soon and proves useful she's going to be sidelined and then what will be her her point ?

I didn't like that other cop either, he caused the death of one innocent woman and the suicide of her son by his stupid actions and big mouth. He should leave ystad and his rather nice saab estate to Kurt.
 
Me neither. Mind you, I did tend to be rather more focussed on Angharad Rees when Poldark was on... I was an impressionable teenager at the time.



I thought Linda was pregnant and that perhaps Stefan was initially happy but then somehow changed his mind and his actions in going AWOL revealed to Linda how he really thought. However, didn't Linda have a glass of something later on when she was with Kurt?
Final thought - it was strange to hear Kurt speaking English. It just did not sound right.
 
I don't have a TV so I rely on iplayer to watch the few programmes I do see. So I'm watching series 1 for the second time (third if you count the few episodes of the English version I watched). It's been very sad watching Linda and knowing that Johanna Sallstrom is no more.

I wonder how long it'll be until I can see series 2...
 
The interesting thing was to see English used in some of the Swedish episodes where the characters and by inference viewers took this in stride. As they would because they speak good English there.

The least we can do is put up with subtitles to watch this excellent production.

Anyone who likes the UK version owes it to themselves to watch the original as they will be rewarded. And feel very much at home.
 
Yesterdays episode was very character driven which is always the best direction for a drama. I may have missed something, but was it explained why Kurt looked a mess throughout the entire episode? :confused:

Shocked to see that Pontus is a father who has abandoned his son, which is surprising seeing how Pontus' father is a complete tw*t and surely Pontus would have done anything not to let that vicious cycle repeat itself, obviously that was the whole point of the episode and the last scene showed that Pontus realised this.

Also, Pontus seems to be unlucky with his job. Last week he was in a car crash, beaten up, kidnapped and tied up in a van which was then set on fire. This week he was fired at by a sniper, held hostage again and had a gun held up to his neck. I wonder what trouble he'll get into next week. :p

The relationship between Kurt and Kristina seems to have stalled, I hope we see more development of this in the remaining ep's.
 
Me too - painful :cry: The only character besides Lewis himself (although he's getting less personable as episodes go by) whom I could care a jot about is the lovely lady body-chopper-upper (sorry, senior moment, can't remember what they're called :eek: ).

parthena
 
This may be so, but.

It's inevitable that comparisons between both versions will continued to be made, not necessarily by the same people.

Any particular event in this series can immediately provoke a comment on the other version.
 
So the actor isn't going through a mid-life crisis but the character might be, the hair dye might be part of this as well, he hasn't got a younger girlfriend and a sports car though.
 
I think I'm right in saying that this is the first season of Wallander which was first broadcast in Sweden from 2005 and has already been screened on BBC4 at least once before.

Two of the main characters don't appear in Series 2 and are replaced by a couple of rookies.
 
I had seen this episode before and knew how it ended but it was well worth watching again. I still got emotionally involved especially with Kurt and Linda's scenes together. The combination of good writing, acting, photography and directing have produced a great series and is one of my top 3 favourite series of the year.
 
I really do hope there will be more Wallander. I love it, it's my favourite thing, I have great resepct for it. I've been abroad for a number of weeks and recorded all of the ones on then and watched them all virtually back to back, most of the episodes are very powerful with universal themes that cross borders. I don't know why I find it quite so emotionally involving, but I care very much about all of the characters, not just Wallander himself, though obviously he's our focus.

When Isabelle and Pontus first appeared in this series I tried very hard to resent them replacing (scriptwise at least) Linda and Stefan, but I just couldn't. They quickly turned out to be equally fully-fleshed out and well-played characters, I'm so sorry to see them move on now. I found the on-off story between Kurt and Katarina very well done too, I think they caught the nervous fragility and immense complexities of trying to figure out whether you have something going or not when you are down and divorced, of a certain age, with children and career issues and so on - in a way they are perfect for each other and also completely wrong and, of course, that story has been left completely up in the air as a cliffhanger.

Here's hoping there's more soon.
 
I think the programme has definitely lost something without Stefan and Linda. I know that new characters take a while to 'bed-in' but I don't see it working really. I really like Wallander as well. Still it's better than British cop shows.

I am another one who worked out who the killer was very early on.
 
It certainly would!
I'm still a bit unsure as to exactly how far their relationship had developed. There have been plenty of hints and some overtly intimate moments but?? Were they ever together or not?
 
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