Swedish Wallander Series 2

No mention of Linda's whereabouts, but I'm guessing the emotion was real at that point.:(

Have to say I was worried about missing Linda and Stefan, but I didn't for one minute.............that's how good this programme is:D
 
I didn't know they had heatwaves in Sweden.:D

This has a completely different look and feel to the usual Wallender episodes and it seems entirely down to being filmed during hot, sunny weather.

It just looks fantastic.:)
 
But their private lives don't intrude, they're a part of it - something they don't achieve in UK tec-dramas where problematic sex lives, wives and kiRAB are inserted anomalously, distractingly and irrelevantly.

(Well, I know what I mean :o )

parthena
 
I can't find Quiet Night available anywhere on a CD or to download and I have been scouring sites for it over the last few weeks since a poster here very kindly pointed the way to Youtube. I loved the way that the song popped up in various places through Season 2.

It would be wonderful if the BBC repeated Series 1. I discovered Wallander when Series 1 was shown during the latter half of last year. Was that the first showing of the series?

I was so relieved when Jussi pulled through almost in one piece. I've grown really attached to him through the series.

I'd really love to go to Sweden now as well.
 
Wallander's worRAB at the end made me teary. I really enjoyed last night's episode, though I did on occasion want to bang Isabelle's head off the wall to make her wake up and smell the coffee.
 
"Praxis" would be grammatically correct in that context so although it looked odd it may have been a literal translation of the Swedish word. I always turn up the volume when Wallander's on; illogical I know but it feels easier to understand the dialogue if I can hear it clearly, even though it's written down in front of me!

I agree that this series hasn't felt as intimate as the previous one. It's as if they've copied the things that gave it its personality but forgotten why they were there in the first place. For example the ongoing image of walking a dog on the beach symbolised unattainable happiness in the first series but in the second it just means walking a dog on the beach.
 
Strange that it was a similar type of character but not the same character, weren't there other actors they could call on? Judging by IMDB, the episodes were five years apart so that probably explains them using him twice! They probably weren't expecting the series to be shown close together like that, and they are films in Sweden as I understand it.
 
I bought all of the first series from Sweden on dvd, and I recorded all of the 2nd series and burnt them to individual discs, so I now have all 26 episodes. Maybe it's time to go back to the beginning and Innan Frosten :)
 
I like this show a lot, even if some of the dialogue can be kinda bad (depending on who's writing the episode). Or maybe it reaRAB worse than what it sounRAB?

Anyway, I have a couple of questions - what season is BBC4 airing now? And when was this first shown in Sweden? How many eps are there to a season, as it feels like a lot?! Are these all new eps or reruns?

ETA: I take from the thread title that we're currently in season 2 and not just continuing the thread along?
 
Enjoyed that one, a sense of Prime Suspect to it with the eventual murderer being signposted very early so that we'd all (well I'd) think it wasn't him.

BTW, was this the first reference to Kurt's father in the Swedish series?

K
 
Probably exagerated EC, after all the criminals in US films are usually Brits:D. And I remember an episode of I think it was Frost, where in the southern English town where everyone spoke with elongated vowels the two bad guys were a Scouser and a Glaswegian..............no one likes to think of their own as the bad guys:D:D
 
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