Swedish Wallander Series 2

At least they're bit more cheerful, especially considering the number of times they get beaten up and shot at. Maybe all the fog in this week's episode was meant to make them harder to hit.:)
 
But, not wishing to be disrespectful, I'm thinking of the character she played, rather than the death of the actress. As Wallander's daughter and in his police team she played a major part in the last series, so it would surely be right to suggest a new career or something, to keep the fiction going. We must stop confusing actors with the characters they play.
 
Well a big ? is my confused response to your answer but as you say, best to stay on topic.

It has now become my family's ritual to watch Wallander on the Sunday morning after transmission. Will miss it when the series enRAB.
 
I thought so, as I watched the episode where Linda was kidnapped and injured her eye and that was out of place according to an episode guide online.
 
I hope that they will show more Montalbano, but that is because I can speak a bit of Italian and watching the show will help me remember it. However as a piece of drama I found the shows pretty weak, with no attempt to get the plot to make sense.

I will miss Wallander, but last night's episode was an another example of how Swedish Wallander has the most stupid plots ever on a cop show.

Would a British crime show get away with two workers being killed in an accident without the rest of the workers wanting to know what happened to them? One was badly injured, but none of the others even waited to see if an ambulance would come?
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Would a British show have a brother hiding his nine year old sister in a cupboard at a building site? How did her brother smuggle her into the country and then into the site without anyone else knowing? How did he keep her hidden?

Would a British show have a nine year old who could not speak a word of the native language wandering about on her own, going into a school for school dinners without being noticed, walking into a port, then going into a shop, then finding Wallander's name from a paper, then finding his home address from a phone book, then finding a map and reading the map, then working out from the map how to find his home?

I am afraid that I cannot allow the scriptwriters that much licence and found it hard to get involved in the plots of the stories.
 
The only consolation here is that the BBC HD channel is showing "No1 Ladies Detective Agency" and I thank my lucky stars we have a TV that receives HD ... as saturday nights are truly dismal on freeview terrestrial TV.
 
I have the impression that most Swedes speak excellent English as well as at least one other European language.

They have to - their language is impenetrable to everbody else!
 
From the understated reference to her, and the poignancy of it reflected in Wallander's face, I inferred that her character was dead in the new series too.
 
'We' aren't doing that. It was the writer's decision. If he felt the actress/character were too intertwined for another actress to be cast in the role or for him to write her out, so be it.

I found this quote from the Guardian: "After her death, Mankell was unable to write another novel with Linda, saying his grief and guilt were too great."

Very sad.
 
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