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teejwood Sat 07-Jan-12 23:06:19

Can I just say I heart this - great story, great writing, and meyer and strange from the killing I and II - what's not to like?!

grin

LaVolcan Sat 07-Jan-12 23:07:49

Yes, absolutely brilliant.

smugmumofboys Sat 07-Jan-12 23:09:31

Thought there would be a thread on this! I really liked it. Kind of like The West Wing but in Danish, so extra double concentration needed.

Loved Strange in it and the lovely Jan. I thought Strange looked more his age in it. Still would. wink

My new favourite show - just brilliant. Love Birgitte, love Strange in it and all those great Danish light fittings.

teejwood Sat 07-Jan-12 23:12:37

smugmum ohhh yesssssss at the wink
he needs to get shot of that that stalker student,though - that girl looks like trouble

teejwood Sat 07-Jan-12 23:14:51

capture i said to dp several times "look at those lights!"

and when they had the coffee flask on the breakfast table in the house - that was another "want one" moment.... would do me nicely during the working day - any of our skandi friends around to point me in the right direction for a purchase???? grin

Definitely trouble.

smugmumofboys Sat 07-Jan-12 23:15:19

Oh yes, Amina. She's trouble and no mistake.

I was a bit baffled that she didn't have more 'people' around her. Very laid back those Danes.

Pantah630 Sat 07-Jan-12 23:16:10

Loved it, not seen the Killing, looks like I need to though.

Ditto stalker student...could definitely cause trouble.

scummymummy Sat 07-Jan-12 23:16:49

It's fab. I want Birgitt for PM here! And Strange in this is the perfect partner (unlike in the killing2!) I am going to force my partner to study his supportive ways and copy them to the letter.

here will have to do some saving. There is always ebay.

scummymummy Sat 07-Jan-12 23:18:13

Though I may have to stop doing that if you are right about Amina!

smugmumofboys Sat 07-Jan-12 23:18:34

Oh Pantah. I am so jealous of you. You'll get to pop your The Killing cherry and enjoy it for the first time. It's very, very good. Treat yourself to the boxset, unplug the phone and savour it.

Raffiiscool Sat 07-Jan-12 23:33:32

TK Maxx prob good for the flask. My mum spend some time in Denmark youth so were adopters of the coffee flask and the smorgasbord approach to daytime eating. Tak formal (spelling! but Danish for thank you for that lovely meal - may I leave the table now - but oh so much more concise) is frequently used in our house !! blush

And yes loved Borgen - particularly the strong female leads- though have pissed DH off repeating the Danish phrases in a terrible accent all the way through it!

Godnat all!

Raffiiscool Sat 07-Jan-12 23:34:54

And yes - Birgitte DH was the perfect husband - so supportive, handsome and just lovely!

Pantah630 Sat 07-Jan-12 23:35:03

It's languishing in my amazon basket waiting for me to break justify spending so early in January. May hold out until it reduces in price or after next weeks fix smile

Deux Sun 08-Jan-12 00:26:26

I'm so into all this skandi stuff, I've suggested a drving holiday to Denmark and Sweden to DH. smile

Loving the light fittings too. I have a book called 1000 Lights and there a quite a few in there. 'DH, look, look, that light's in that book you gave me'. DH can't handle the subtitles though.

On the Killing II, I said this and I must say it again, these Danes do middle age really well.

Mmm. Strange, I still would. Meyer, too. Not together of course, that would be too much. wink

bigbuttons Sun 08-Jan-12 08:52:06

I have it taped, can't wait. Meyer and Strange? Excellent. Tell you what though. I rather would with Brix from the killing. Yes the Danes do middle age very well. I would with Trols Hatmann tooblush

DillyTante Sun 08-Jan-12 09:04:35

Loved it! Haven't seen the Killing either.

Had complete house envy too. I wasn't entirely sure what was going on most of the time but I felt that way about the west wing at first too.

Highlander Sun 08-Jan-12 09:10:25

MEYER! YOU'RE ALIVE!

MavisGrind Sun 08-Jan-12 09:11:19

I'm glad there is a thread on this - looked last night after the first episode but couldn't find one and too lazy to start one.

Loved it. Didn't get Strange in the Killing but so would now. Am happily a long term singleton but would recondsider for him! (what is Strange's real name btw, we surely can't keep calling him Strange for this! (and Meyer for that matter).

And yy to all the fabulous furnishings. The desk lights at the Parliament building must be standard issue as they were also in the Killing.

Oh, yes, and a great story too..!

MavisGrind Sun 08-Jan-12 09:13:37

I see I need some Henningsen lamps icapture, thanks for the linky. smile

mousyMouse Sun 08-Jan-12 09:14:01

ahhh, when did this start? still a chance to catch up on iplayer?

bigbuttons Sun 08-Jan-12 09:14:12

"meyer, you're alive" yes those were my immediate thoughts tooblush

thesoulfoman Sun 08-Jan-12 09:26:23

Only started last night mousyMouse so no probs there. I thought it was great, very West Wing but with more oestrogen and obviously more laid back. Where was the rest of her party though? And her other half, surely too good to be true? I couldn't watch the other Scandi BBC4 stuff as I can't do real life type murders, but this is perfect.

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