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WITH SUCH GREAT USER REVIEWS I THOUGHT THIS WAS GOING TO BE SOMETHING REALLY DIFFERENT, BUT, IN REALITY, I FOUND SOMETHING VERY MUCH THE SAME AS A HOLLYWOOD ACTION SERIES, NOT VERY BRITISH.

THE SET SEEMED OK, BUT EXCEPT FOR MINOR CLEVER DETECTIVE WORK, BOTH CHARACTERS MAKE AMATEURISH MOVES AND CONSTANTLY GET CAUGHT TO SET UP YET ANOTHER HOLLYWOOD MAINSTREAM STYLE ESCAPE. IT HAS OVER THE TOP COINCIDENCE IN SUCH A LARGE CITY AS LONDON AND STEFAN IS NOT EVEN SMART ENOUGH TO WEAR TRUE DISGUISES AND IS ALWAYS MADE BY THE BAD GUYS.

RASH IT THE MORE SENSIBLE AND LIKEABLE CHARACTER. STEFAN IS RATHER ANNOYING AND COMMON IN HIS APPROACH WHICH MAKES IT VERY UNBELIEVABLE WHEN HE IS IN POSH CRIMINAL SETTINGS.

I HAD HIGH HOPES FOR THIS SHOW AFTER READING SO MANY 7+ REVIEWS AND SAYING HOW IMAGINATIVE AND NEW THIS IS. BUT, ALAS, THIS IS JUST A SHOW THAT HAS SOME OK PLOT IDEAS BUT CAN'T REALLY SEE THEM THROUGHT WITH OUT TYPICAL VIOLENCE, GUNS, EXPLOSIONS, FIRES AND THE USUAL OVER THE TOP ACTION. THE CONCEPTS ARE GOOD, THE EXECUTION IS LACKING. THE DIRECTOR AND PRODUCERS HAVE TAKEN A MEDIOCRE SCRIPT AND TRIED TO FILL IN THE HOLES WITH EXCESSIVE ACTION. IT WOULD BE A FUN RIDE IF IT WERE MORE BELIEVABLE AND THE CHARACTERS WEREN'T SO BLATANTLY AMATEURISH THE WAY THE GO ABOUT THINGS. ONLY MILDLY ENTERTAINING.

REMEMBER WHEN THEY MADE SEASON 4 OF TORCHWOOD: MIRACLE DAY AND MOVED ANOTHER GREAT BRIT SHOW TO THE U. S.? EXACTLY, NO ONE DOES BECAUSE IT WAS TERRIBLE JUST THE SAME WAY THAT THEY MOVED TOAST TO TINSELTOWN.

THIS WAS THE WORST IDEA EVER. TOAST TRIED TO CARRY THE SHOW BUT THERE WERE TOO MANY INCREDIBLY WEAK UNFUNNY CHARACTERS IN TINSELTOWN. MOST WEREN'T ON SCREEN LONG IT WAS LIKE MANY MANY DIFFERENT STORIES STARTED AND NONE FINISHED.

WHY TAKE THE ACTORS FROM THE BRIT SERIES AND MOVE THEM TO THE HOLLYWOOD UNDER DIFFERENT CHARACTERS IN SOME CASES? DIDN'T WORK.

RUSS NIGHTLIFE IS THE WORST CHARACTER BY FAR AND SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN IN SO MANY SCENES. Fereydun Robert Armisen WAS THE SHOW KILLER. OF ALL THE DUMB SCENES IN THE LAST COUPLE OF EPISODES, THE SCENES WITH ARMISEN WERE THE MOST TRAGICALLY DULL AND UNFUNNY. WHAT DO PEOPLE SEE IN THIS ACTOR? HE'S THE ANTITHESIS OF A COMEDIAN. PLEASE BRING BACK TOAST OF LONDON.

I WATCH BRIT SHOWS AND BRIT ACTORS BECAUSE OUR HOLLYWOOD MAINSTREAM GARBAGE SUCKS SO BADLY SO WHY WOULD YOU TAKE A FUNNY SHOW AND AMERICANIZE IT TO JUST BLATANTLY KILL THE COMEDY AND THE CHARACTER!!!!

I HAVE WATCHED ALL 3 SEASONS 3 TIMES. I ENJOYED THESE MORE THAN I EVER EXPECTED TO. THE TOAST FORMULA REALLY WORKS AND THEY DID A GOOD JOB WITH COMING UP WITH NEW QUIRKY CHARACTERS THROUGHOUT THE SERIES. HIS AGENT JANE AND THE VOICEOVERS GUYS AT SCRAMBLE STUDIOS ARE MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS IN ADDITION TO TOAST. RAY PURCHASE AND SOME OF THE OTHER CHARACTERS GET OVERDONE AND HAD TOO MUCH SCREEN TIME. SOME OF THE GUEST APPEARANCES ARE ALSO VERY GOOD.

TOAST CARRIES MOST OF THE SHOW AND IT WORKS. I WAS HOPING THERE WOULD BE MORE SEASONS BUT THEY STUPIDLY TRIED TO MAKE TOAST OF TINSELTOWN INSTEAD WHICH WAS A TOTAL FLOP.

ON THE SURFACE THIS IS A STORY ABOUT TWO YOUNG WOMEN WHO CAN'T GET THEIR PRIORITIES STRAIGHT SOMETIMES. UNDERNEATH THEY ARE BOTH CAPABLE AND COMPETENT BUT CAN'T GROW UP. IT'S A BIT OF A STATEMENT WHETHER TRUE OF ANY PARTICULAR GENERATION OR NOT IS FOR YOU TO DECIDE. IT'S ALSO A FUN CHAOTIC DRUNKEN PARTY SOMETIMES. BOTH AISLING AND DANIELLE ARE INTERESTING CHARACTERS AND THE ACTING IS EXCELLENT. SEANA KERSLAKE REMINDS ME OF A YOUNG SCARLETT JOHANSEN AND POSSIBLY A BETTER ACTRESS. I ACTUALLY WATCHED THIS TWICE OVER THE SPAN OF 3 YEARS AND REALLY ENJOYED IT EVEN MORE THE SECOND TIME BECAUSE I HAD NO EXPECTATIONS ABOUT WHERE IT WAS GOING AND THOROUGHLY ENJOYED IT. SHEILA MOYLETTE WAS CREEPY GOOD. ART CAMPION WAS FUNNY AS ALWAYS AND PLAYED A LITTLE DIFFERENT CHARACTER THAN HIS USUAL. WATCH IT FOR FUN WITH NO EXPECTATIONS AND YOU WILL ENJOY IT.

Pandemic or not, this is a tragedy that they expect us to be entertained by basically a reality show on web cams. Sorry, was awful.

Watching too aging less than top actors with their raggedy ass beards go on and on about nothing just hurt.

This is just an excuse for cheap production values and the fact that BritBox promotes it deteriorates their standards greatly.

I thought when Stephen Mangan had prostituted himself in Hang Ups it was the worst thing he could with the laptop therapy sessions, but David Tenant has proven he has not self respect and has given up on his career. I can't even watch him in Dr. Who in any more after he has made so much garbage like this. This is the pinnacle of his trash heap.

Rarely do I love a show so much but Blue Lights is exceptionally well done. Not only does it seem realistic but every character is believable. This is an incredible banging cast all around! Writing and directing are great and the concept of a rookie cop show works well as a result. Characters are fresh and dynamic and oh so real. I couldn't stop watching this fast moving police drama. This stands out as a drama, not just a police drama. The Responder was trying for something like this but beyond raw ugliness I found nothing redeeming about it. Blue Lights has found a way to channel that rawness into a very human Happy Valley inspired show. While shows like Vera and Shetland have gotten tired, Blue Lights inspires me to look for more great shows like this. You won't be disappointed.

I started to watch this a few times and kept getting put off by the intro music because the theme song on just the first episode made me think this was going to be a super light detective series. I finally watched this whole series recently and really liked it. After the first episode there is no silly theme music or any intro. This is a well balanced detective crime drama with good personal interaction between the cops.

Caroline Quentin and Ian Kelsey have good chemistry together and their characters are very believable. Detectives Butchers and Shap are well developed characters along the way. The show seemed to just be hitting it's stride before it was canceled.

Many of the plots seemed more original than most. The forensics aspect was not particularly interesting in this series but adequate and realistic.

This is definitely worth watching.

I started watching this and everything seems too obvious about the satanic stuff and abandoned baby and we have no reference as to what Hunter did up to this point. We have no way to frame her seemingly erratic course of action to find her origins.

So far there was no horror, just some vague noise and sensations. When I thought this looked like a dog of a horror movie I checked the other reviews and they saved me the wasted time of watching this nonsense.

Why does Shutter/AMC+ make so many garbage movies instead of putting the money from 3 or 5 bad films into one good script? I have seen some very good movies on Shutter but this is not one of them.

I made it through episode one and part of the second one. For some reason I thought this was going to be a movie not a series. It was slow and every time they wanted to be dramatic it went in the head of the person and they were seeing a beach or the ocean.

It was dragging on and again this is a horror movie with not that much horror beyond the obvious premise which everyone was trying to deny.

It was a lot like STHLM Requiem where people would talk and it was supposed to philosophical and revealing but just was a load of crap that wasn't believable and never clarified any of the things that were happening.

It just never really got going good and was sputtering along. Boring and directionless.

The best part of this movie is the ensemble of mental patients. The best scene was dancing to Danse Macabre which everyone associates with Jonathan Creek. I wasn't surprised by the plot twists. It's kind of a movie based on things that have been said about asylums over time, all the cliches. Who really are the crazy ones?

Kate Beckinsale is overrated in talent and beauty here. She doesn't even look like herself after all the cosmetic surgeries. Michael Caine is annoying in another role as usual. He always plays the same character type and never varies his voice/style. Ben Kingsley is good but David Thewlis probably gives the best performance as usual. I can't be objective about Kingsley here. I have never been his biggest fan but he looks so much like goofy Howie Mandell in this role that I can't get that image out of my head.

The plot seems to go quickly here with predictable actions by all characters. I'm only giving it a 6 because of the reasonable plot and the director's handling of the ensemble scenes where very good. Otherwise, the motivations of the doctor and Beckensale are not impressive. This is just an OK Hollywood film, but no great horror movie by any stretch of the imagination..

I really like the premise and the main characters. The scenery is beautiful due to the subject of art and heists that take place in hotels and homes of spectacular interiors and architecture.

Allmen is played very well as is Carlos. The plots are good and each one builds on the previous episode and even though their business becomes recovering stolen art it kind of becomes redundant by Episode 3. Allmen and Carlos are very philosophical and the dialogue is well done and amusing but it kind of seems repetitive as it goes. The pace could be a tad quicker sometimes but it is slow mostly due to the nature of long conversations while dining.

Worth watching but I could only make it through 3 episodes because it seemed just more of the same.

This was very well done. Jack Davenport and Susanna Harker were excellent. Idris Elba was good also but was given a kind of stereotypical role. Philip Quast as Father Pearce was terrible. It was a boring character along with uninspired acting that dragged the show down. I was never sure how this priest got involved in the program anyway. Also, he, Dr. Paul Hoyle and one of the DCI's at the beginning have very generic faces and started to run together in my mind. Monotone characters with not much distinction.

The plot was very good but was so detailed that it left a lot of holes in the plot. Example, how did they take bodies after death and why did the families and public not ask where they were. There were also some inconsistencies in the handling of nitrogen cold handling, sometimes gloves, sometimes not.

I was happy to find this but i can't rate it better than it is.

This has good basic detective work and the cold case angle works but the characters are too emotionally involved to the ridiculous point. Thank you for replacing Cassie! I always like Nikola Walker's work but here the character and the way she played it was just too damned depressing. Now Sunny is exactly the same and drags down the show.

Sinead Keenan is awesome! I've loved her work since I saw here in London Irish and an episode of Poirot. She is very believable as a DCI. Cassie, Sunny and the team always feel like they are social workers instead of cops. The cases they work are inherently depressing enough without making it so unbelievably personal and emotional. Sinead Keenan really brightens this series and is so much more believable. She is an impressive actress as well as charismatic in the role of DCI but could the writers not let the cliche of naming her Jess James just be a passing thought? This belittles the work with this overdone cliche.

Sunny Khan REALLY drags this series down, especially in Season 5. Sanjeev Bhaskar should stick to comedy. He's terrible in this role and always has been but it is especially apparent opposite Sinead. I truly now see just how bad he is. The series needs to move on beyond Cassie and they can't with his character moping about to the ridiculous. Sunny is not the great detective he imagines himself to be. I'm seriously not sure where his redeeming characteristics are to be found or what good he brings to the show.

The rest of the detectives in the cast are good but their characters are too smug in Season 5. Get rid of Sunny and this is at least an 8 STAR show. Bring in someone funny like the DS Norman Potting character from Grace. The tone of this show is just too down.

I'm not sure why so many people hate this show. I accept that it may not be very Dutch in language or true to the city, but compared to the utter garbage that is out there this is still pretty good. After the end of Season 3, due to the sappy Episode 3 I had to lower my rating from 7 to 5 stars. How sad that this show deteriorated so damned quickly. It was already suffering from being an ensemble show that keeps changing the cast but now it has officially become a soap opera. Sad.

Piet is not perfect but the fact that his character is understated and relies on banter is OK. Maybe people missed out on why he is this way. However, after finishing Season 3 I may have to agree more.

I liked the cast but they had to go and change out some good characters in Season 3. Character Brad de vries was good and Job Cloovers was a great character and well played by Elliott Barnes-Worrell. They had developed these characters and suddenly they had to replace a Brit and a Black with an Asian and a Muslim. British TV is bad about having to fill slots with a perfect UN of nationalities but here you had a great well developed character in Job Cloovers and suddenly he's replaced with a much less interesting character who is almost infantile at times and is so dumbed down. Worst change in the show. As we all know there are tons of quirky coroners but Hendrik Davie played excellently by Darrell D'Silva is one of the best. It does get a little tiresome that he knows every bar in town but it seems believable.

Lucienne is a mysterious and likable character but toward the end so Season 3 when they have her riding everywhere on a motorcycle instead of with Piet as usual seems just silly. At times her character seems to try a little to hard to be tough. Some subtlety here would help. You don't have to beat us over the head with how strong a character she is.

As noted, Piet is not so difficult to understand but the dragged out romance where he finally has a second chance and he shows no interest is just another standard plot line I've seen a zillion times in the last couple of years. Here you have someone you are interested in, lose them, and when you get them back have no interest. Makes no sense at all for characters over the age of 21, completely unmotivated plot line and just plain annoying.

Overall, still this is a good show. Everything seems to have gotten much worse in comparison.

What kind of meds are people on giving this show a 10? I had high hopes for this show due to the lead and Craig Parkinson. Parkinson's character would actually make a great show but Acorn would rather waste their funding on another silly nan show that is doomed from the beginning.

The concept is completely unbelievable. Mrs. Sidhu pops up in every scene like you are playing Whac-A-Mole. Then she has to espouse some philosophy every time she opens her mouth and is already tiresome in the first 5 minutes. In all of Buddha's teachings he didn't have as much to say as she does on every subject. The cliche here is everything has to relate back to food. So overdone here. This show lacks any subtlety.

The writers try to make jokes but they are so weak they actually detract from the show.

Craig Parkinson is the only thing keeping this dog on life support. He is wonderful on Grace and here also and is the main reason I gave this show a try. Sadly, he can't save this barker.

Acorn keeps making each show dumber and dumber. I know their target audience is older but they write like their audience is in a coma. The Chelsea Detective is awful but Mrs Sidhu is so much worse that Chelsea Detective seems like Poirot (not truly) in comparison. This is right down at the bottom of Acorn shows right along with Harry Wild.

The Peloton like company in this show is totally unbelievable. Why they even have a one woman caterer makes no sense. A caterer wouldn't have time to meddle in everything and of course it just so happens that her friend's daughter works there. So unbelievable.

THE 3 SEASONS OF THOSE WHO KILL 2019 THRU 2023 ARE EXCELLENT. HOWEVER, THIS 2011 THOSE WHO KILL IS JUST A SILLY OVERDRAMATIC BUNCH OF NONSENSE.

AFTER BEING TRIGGER HAPPY AND SHOOTING SOMEONE, THE MAIN CHARACTER IS RELIEVED OF DUTY PENDING A HEARING. SHE IS ALSO OBSESSED WITH A SKELETON FOUND WITH ITS ARMS FOLDED LIKE A PERSON MIGHT SLEEP OR DEAD IN A COFFIN. HOWEVER, JUST BECAUSE THE ARMS ARE FOLDED THIS WAY SHE INSISTS THIS IS THE WORK OF A SERIAL KILLER. THIS IS THE SILLIEST PREMISE YET IN A CRIME SHOW.

ALSO, THIS SHOW IS VERY SEXIST. HER BOSS TELLS HER SHE'S GOOD BUT APPARENTLY BECAUSE SHE IS A WOMAN HE HAS TO HOLD HER BACK. NOTHING IN THIS SHOW MAKES ANY LOGICAL SENSE. MOVE ON. WATCH THE 2019 TO 2023 3 SEASONS OF THOSE WHO KILL AND YOU WILL ENJOY THOSE.

UNTIL RECENTLY I THOUGHT ALL NORDIC NOIR EQUALS HIGH QUALITY STORIES AND PLOTS AND THEN YOU WATCH SHOWS LIKE STHLM REQUIEM AND MARIA WERN.

I HAD ORIGINALLY STARTED WATCHING SEASON 5 BECAUSE THAT WAS THE OLDEST AVAILABLE ON VIAPLAY. THREE EPISODES IN I THOUGHT THIS MUST HAVE BEEN BETTER IN THE ORIGINAL SEASON OR TWO OR THEY WOULDN'T HAVE MADE SOME MANY SEASONS.

WRONG. I SUBSCRIBED TO MHZ AND STARTED WATCHING SEASON 1. IT IS JUST AS BAD OR WORSE AS THE SHOW IS IN SEASON 5. IT HAS TOTALLY UNBELIEVABLE WRITING AND ANOTHER AWFUL FEMALE COP. MARIA VERN COMES OFF AS A NOT ONLY AN INEPT DETECTIVE AND NO GREAT MOTHER, BUT ALL SHE DOES IS FLIRT WITH AND HAVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH HER COLLEAGUES.

INSTEAD OF SOLVING CRIMES, SHE JUST SITS AROUND TALKING, LOOKING AT PICS, BATTING HER EYES UNTIL A COINCIDENCE OF UNREAL PROPORTIONS FALLS IN HER LAP AND THEY SOLVE THE CRIME. EVERYONE ELSE CAN BE AT A CRIME SCENE AND MISS THE MOST OBVIOUS THING BUT THE WRITERS HAVE HER "DISCOVER" IT LIKE SHE'S SOME GENIUS. IT IS PATHETIC.

THEY TOUCH CRIME SCENE OBJECSTS WITH NO GLOVES. WHEN THEY CALL OUT THE REST OF THE COPS THEY LOOK LIKE A SWAT TEAM ON THIS SMALL ISLAND. SHE SPENDS MORE TIME TALKING ABOUT MEN THAN SHE DOES SOLVING CRIMES.

DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME.

I was so grossed out in the first 10 minutes that I was just astounded at how bad this show is. I read a review that asked why all the bathroom scenes and that's the first thing you see but that's dead clever brilliant compared to the rest.

In one of the first couple of scenes she is trying to have sex with her husband in the morning before the kids wake up. That was all tolerable although a bit more explicit than needed to convey the message.

The kids of course pop in right as the finish and they hardly have time to cover up. In trying to put on a charade for the kids that Mommy and Daddy werent doing anything, she stands up and the director thought we needed to see a closeup of male fluid RUNNING DOWN HER INNER LEG. This was one of the most disgusting things I have seen in a mainstream show and absolutely unnecessary. I'm glad this happened early on so I didnt waste time watching more. This is even inappropriate in TV comedy. Actually, nothing seemed funny, just pitiful.

If you like GROSS and think GROSS is funny, then you will love this garbage.

GROSS AND DISGUSTING, ALL THE GROSS OF PORN.

Season 1 was mediocre at best but they managed to drag it down a couple more stars in Season 2. I can't understand the high ratings, possibly because I no longer drink.

With all the diversity in the characters they found a generic formula to make them ALL BORING. There's really not one great character in the lot and the central character Max is the worst, character and cast.

Take an uninteresting detective, let him reside on a boat even though he doesn't seem to sail or fish or have any connection to the water (Van Der Valk sails) and give him a bike that he parks just anywhere willy nilly except the bike rack 8 feet away or makes a policeman watch it at a crime scene since they have nothing better to do. Then give him a phone with which he does nothing but take pics nonstop instead of looking around the scene while there and make sure he doesn't do background checks on anyone involved in a crime until something completely random and coincidental happens which is about a billion to one odds and THEN check into the suspects histories. He deduces almost nothing that doesn't land in his lap.

The only thing worse on Acorn is Whitstable Pearl Season 2. Why did Acorn make a second season of this dog The Cheesey Detective instead of something great like THE GULF? I'm sure there was no budget and definitely no imagination required for Chelsea Detective. When Max is not taking pics with his phone he's video calling the coroner on his phone or laptop. Even when he is cornered once all he can do is use his phone and the only time he defends himself is when the police arrive. Oh, and this clown goes on a stakeout and doesn't have backup ready to move in when they would need them.

If the plot weren't bad enough, the dialogue sounds like it was taken from Memes and Social Media, shallow and unoriginal. To call this cliched would be a great understatement. The oldies music sprinkled through is trying to evoke some sad relatable coolness but just comes off lame as F***.

If the crime plots aren't bad enough we have to endure what might possibly be the most aggravating pseudo relationship ever in a cop show. Astrid is the only character more confusing and as equally dull as Max. They couldn't make this relationship more tiresome. It's like they are trying to do random again but there is no underlying anything to make it work. Dull and colorless unlimited.

If there were BLAND AWARDS this would be the sleeper hit. Acorn, I know times are tough for streaming but please try to spend your budgets more wisely than on dribble like this made for your Nan. This whole show is a terrible concept from the start. Please rethink and move on.

This has a very familiar deja vu plot that you've seen on shows like Shetland (after it went downhill) and many others. The only thing a little different here is just the scenery

The Karla and Anita characters are good but most of the rest are rather 2 dimensional characters. Some of Karla's actions don't quite make sense but Maria Rich is good in the role and Mariann Hansen is excellent also. We don't really know much about Hannis's character and the actor is just adequate partly because of the role itself. Karla's husband seems miscast.

I can't really call this Noir as this doesn't fit into the same category as the other Nordic Noir shows. Again, I would say this is more like Shetland.

As noted, the theme is unoriginal and it has been done to death. If they hadn't played the viewer along for an entire season only to leave one hanging I would have given this a 6 star rating but the cheesy final minutes to try and force you to watch Season 2 was a worn out gimmick that will make this viewer never watch any more seasons. Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice.....ain't gonna happen because I don't trust the writers and producers now.

Five minutes in you can see this is an absolute joke. I'm not sure who is rating this highly but I suspect there is some collusion among viewers to push this up in ratings because it is a one star if I ever I've seen one.

This is supposed to be sci-fi but should be categorized as Semantics and Philosophy. This is a juvenile work that would be done better by students as a class project. Acting is terrible, script is even worse. People sitting around talking is not a movie.

The dialogue is like a tennis match of sing song stupidity. The woman just repeats back to the guy being interviewed trying to sound smart but actually sounds like an idiot repeating words back to him so that it just goes on and on.....until I said this is a waste of time and turned it off.

Don't be fooled by the ratings. Read the One Stars.

The theme song and opening credits are a definite 10 STARS but it is all down hill from there. This is the worst Nordic Noir or detective/crime series I have ever watched. It sucks you in with the style from the opening and you think I must be missing something because this doesn't make much sense. I even re-watched part of the first episode and started to realize how bad this show really is when you do pay attention.

These are the most inept detectives ever.

Fredrika Bergman is not a likable character as an investigator, spouse/lover or mother. She is not a good human being in any way. She is dishonest, disingenuous, self-serving, callous and not even a good detective although she gets credit all the time for pointing out things that seem rather obvious. She evokes no empathy and the character as flawed as she is still doesn't make me care about her at all. She has no ethics or moral compass of any kind. In fact, by the last couple of episodes I was hoping she and Alex would be taken out by the criminals. Yes, a character so awful you hope she is killed off.

Alex Recht (should have been called Whiner) is an even worse character. He's supposed to be the DCI equivalent but is the most leaderless person you will ever see in this role. He doesn't seem to have any idea where the investigations are going. He commands almost no respect and gives his "team" little direction. I have never seen a more disorganized investigative unit. They just stand around an electronic white board sliding pics around while doing little else. They do not work as a team and most of his instructions are disregarded by Fredrika most of all and Peder too. He is the most bland character in this type of series I have ever seen and NO it cannot be explained away just because this is Dark Nordic Noir. I've watched quite a lot of these and this is nothing like a character from Darkness, Wisting or Rebekka Martinson to name a few good ones. He is beyond callous to suspects and victims, does not communicate with anyone in his personal life or work, is always in crisis mode and so depressed I was hoping he would throw himself out a window.

Not only is the character dull but. Jonas Karlsson the actor brings absolutely nothing to the role. He just takes his glasses off about 6 times an episode and rubs his head in frustration and that sums up the extent of his acting. Liv Mjones is not better. Her character's flatness is not helped by her lack of acting.

The writer(s) have made this so confusing but think they can use a gimmick to make these two characters seem deep and philosophical. Through all the episodes there is this drawn out overused series of scenes where Alex is driving a cab and picks up Fredrika. We have to endure this unpleasing view from a CabCam. They drive around whining about how bad and sick the world is but they are hypocrites who are a much bigger part of the problem than solution. They are failures in their jobs. All of their scenes in the cab, not unlike many of the other conversations in this series, are like watching some really bad existential dry play go on and on and on whilte saying nothing.

Alexej Manvelov gives a good performance as usual and his character Peder is the only one that evokes any sympathy or seems the least bit real.

I was fine with the 2 -episode plots but after the writers show they can't handle this model they try to tie several plots together after the fact in the last 2 episodes which doesn't work. They try to engineer this grand finale based on a storyline they nor the viewer was even aware of. It's comes out of left field and comes off as laughable at best. Two of the three investigator's relationship partners are involved in the plot and third one decides to date a victim's mother. Coincidence to the ridiculous. One detective basically goes into gangland killing mode and I couldn't believe he was not charged with murder. I actually laughed during this scene because it was so over the top and the criminal deserved it, but he was only suspended from duty. Not believable at all.

Every character complains about how people get away with crimes and BOOHOO's about how nothing is being done but these detectives are nothing but stylish hypocrites. They are typical whiner generation characters who could be doing something to change things but instead they throw up their hands, take care of their own needs and stay depressed say the world is beating them down when they are just laying down.

Please don't waste your time. Just pull up the theme song on line, watch the terrific credits, listen to the music. I promise disappointment if you watch anything beyond this. Every bit of the potential of this series is squandered by idiotic writing. I consider Maria Wern and Detective Maria Kallio to be mediocre because the leads both have similar flaws as these characers but on a much smaller scale, but after watching STHLM REQUIEM those two Maria's seem much better somehow in comparison. If you make it to the end you will be PISAPPOINTED!

MARIA KALLIO IS A PRETTY BORING INFANTILE CHARACTER. SHE IS OK AT HER JOB BUT NO SHERLOCK BY ANY STANDARD AND HAS NO RESPECT FOR HER PARTNER WHO SHE SLEEPS WITH AND THEN TREATS LIKE SHITTE. I DO NOT LIKE HER CHARACTER AND HER MOTIVATIONS ARE VERY CONFUSING. SHE CAN'T DEAL WITH ANYTHING IN HER PERSONAL LIFE AND IS PARTLY PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE AND PARTLY SHUNS THE PEOPLE AROUND HER THAT SHE SUPPOSEDLY CARES ABOUT. ELENA LEEVE IS OK IN THE ROLE BUT NOT SPECTACULAR BY ANY STRETCH. I ALSO DON'T SEE THE PHYSICAL ATTRACTION THAT MEN HAVE FOR HER.

THIS WOULD BE A FAR BETTER SHOW IF THEY WROTE HER OUT AND MADE THE SHOW ABOUT SUSANNA HONKANEN WHO IS OBVIOUSLY THE SMARTER DETECTIVE WITH THE EXCEPTION OF HER GRANDFATHER BF. SHE IS MORE DYNAMIC AND INTERESTING AND EVEN IN THE SHOW THEY ACKNOWLEDGE THE CHARACTER IS THE BETTER DETECTIVE. TAKE THE CHARACTERS AND WRITE OUT MARIA AND DO A SHOW ABOUT SUSANNA WITH ROOSA SODERHOLM. PEKKA PLAYED BY LEO SJOMAN IS EXCELLENT ALSO. PAIR THESE TWO UP AS PARTNERS AND DON'T MAKE IT AOBUT THEM SCREWING EACH OTHER, ADD SOME DECENT PLOTS AND THIS COULD BE A VERY GOOD SHOW. YOU COULD MAKE THE NEXT SERIES ABOUT PEKKA AND SU. THE DCI AND OTHER SUPPORTING CHARACTERS ARE OVERALL GOOD. THE SHOW FOCUSES ON THE WEAKEST AND LEAST INTERESTING CHARACTER MARIA. I HAVE NO RESPECT FOR MARIA AND FEEL NOTHING FOR HER. WRITE A CHARACTER THAT MAKES YOU AT LEAST LIKE THEM EVEN WITH THEIR FLAWS. I JUST THINK SILLY HO THE WAY MARIA'S CHARACTER IS WRITTEN BECAUSE SHE IS FLAWED BEYOND LIKABILITY AND SEEMS TO BE THE LEAST RESPONSIBLE PERSON TO BE IN CHARGE. SHE'S PRETTY USELESS. WRITE HER OUT AS THOUGH SHE WENT ON TO LAW SCHOOL BECAUSE THE CHARACTER SUCKS AS A DETECTIVE. I ACTUALLY FEEL BAD FOR ELENA LEEVE PLAYING SUCH A POORLY WRITTEN ROLE.

I tried to start watching this twice and gave up. I later read all the 8 to 10 star reviews and thought I would give it another chance. I watched most of the first episode and had to stop. This is a hollow mainstream show that is trying to hard to be hip that it hurts to watch it. If this is a mystery then Brokenwood is Shakespeare.

The writing is terrible and dragged out. The motivations of the central character don't make sense. She's supposed to be a great investigator yet instead of pulling up information herself she has to call an assistant to look up financials, etc. WHY? Is she Google Blind?

Another borderline silly show that is so over rated that I wasted the better part of an hour. Another boring thing is most of it seems to be 2 people talking and no real action of any kind.

There are tons of better shows on Acorn. Don't waste your time on this sleepy fluff. How low is someone's bar to rate this 8 to 10 stars? If this were any weaker it would be as bad as The Coroner on Britbox. Australian shows are usually so much better. What happened here?

This started out as a seemingly clever con artist show with some great costumes/disguises. It was fast moving and lots of action through the first episode. Then in episode 2 the stupidity of the plot started to take over and it suddenly was no longer a fun ride but a very violent mob show and it lost all it's appeal. I started episode 3 three different times but after a couple of minutes of people threatening and beating I could not continue. It felt like some bad Scorsese/Deniro movie from the 80's and who wants to watch that redundant crap.

Other reviews mention bad acting but the script is so unbelievable that the best actors would have a hard time selling this dog. Very inconsistent.

In one scene someone who is on the run says they don't want a gun so they don't take one even though they know they are being hunted. Then when she is afraid she grabs a knife. Who brings a knife to a gun fight! Bad writing, bad plot, bad series. Too bad because it showed so much promise in the beginning.