Wallander
Acteurs·trices:
Kenneth Branagh, Richard McCabe, Jeany Spark, Sarah Smart, Sadie Shimmin, Tom Hiddleston, Barnaby Kay, David Warner, Boel Marie Larsson (plus)VOD (1)
Saisons(4) / Épisodes(12)
Résumés(1)
Kurt Wallander est inspecteur de police dans la petite ville d'Ystad, au sud de la Suède. Fraîchement séparé de sa femme, il est le père de la jeune Linda, qui l'encourage à reconstruire sa vie. Mais ce fin limier se consacre nuit et jour à résoudre les enquêtes qui lui sont confiées, au dépend de sa vie privée. Son seul objectif: traquer les meurtriers... Alors qu'il lutte pour découvrir la vérité, Wallander se trouve confronté aux aspects les plus sombres de la société suédoise. (texte officiel du distributeur)
(plus)Critique de l’utilisateur·trice DaViD´82 pour cette série (1)
Probably no other character from a series (or movie, for that matter) is as intense as Branagh’s Kurt Wallander (aka walking Scandi depression). It is him in combination with a powerful atmosphere and melancholic music, not to mention camera genius, make this an unforgettable crime series, even though the cases in themselves are no genre gold-dust that you wouldn’t come across elsewhere. And you can hear the paper rustling a little and they are pretty darn predictable. By which I’m not saying that they are bad or just average (apart from the rather dumb, but not bad episode Firewall). This applies for season one (4/5), during season two (5/5) the impression gained from individual episodes improves considerably thanks to their “Dürrenmatt-esque" approach. But it doesn’t matter anyhow, because the cases don’t start being important until season two. Season three (4/5) continues in the same vein as season two and is even better in details, but in the crime part is even more paper-rustling and predictable. This changes none of its qualities again, but the rather unsuccessful attempt at a change of style and genre during his trip to Riga meant a step down from the pedestal of highest quality.
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