Wallander tonight. Anyone watching?

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I haven't watched the first two series but after watching the bridge I've been fancying another Scandinavian type series.

Will I be totally confused because I've missed the other series?

No its miserable shit like the other scando stuff (imo of course)

The previous Branagh version was not a patch on the originals. They are brilliant. The British version is ok. You won't be confused

Quick recap if you missed the others. Lots of miserable people, shit furniture, lots of shots of the horizon.

Did I mention miserable?

and don't forget, its miserable

meee! though i prefer the one without kb

Oh balls!

I shall give it a go anyway :)

because I haven't seen the originals I've enjoyed all the Ken Branagh ones. Tonight's was a bit gorier than usual. Good story though. But I was hoping his new relationship would work,as I get a bit sick of all these lonely,driven policemen who are too damaged to be happy! Hope they're not building up to a doomed affair with his annoying side-kick,(though she did look a bit out of it,tonight!)

drat-fell asleep and missed it! Anyone know when/if there is a repeat as cant get Iplayer here. Thanks

It was very grey wasn't it?

Haven't seen the originals but I love these BBC versions. But then I have a mild crush on KB as Wallander. He just needs a hug...

I agree Nelly but he was a bit self-centred last night! He didn't even check if his partner was safe...on her own with a child in an isolated house with a killer on the loose!

KB gives me the creeps he is a good actor though but he has started to look like an old lady

How did the neighbour manage to dig up a skeleton, move it and reassemble it mostly correctly (apparently just a bit "messed about by animals")

I thought a lot was unresolved. Love the gloom

All of twitter was shouting "that's not a blackberry bush "

It took me longer than it should to realise it wasn't set in the UK despite all the English accents

someone had reffered to it as another Scandi crime so I was all ready to be immersed in the Swedish accent. I even pulled my chair up closer so I could read the subtitles on my teeny tv....

That'll teach me not to pay attention!

I enjoyed it :) But I wondered if Kenneth Branagh was as conscious as I was that his new love interest (did I miss something at the end of the last series? Or maybe a whole series? ) is extremely reminiscent of Emma Thompson imo....

I really enjoyed it. Not exactly a laugh a minute, but I do like KB?
I agree that love interest looked like ET too (the actress not the alien)

Horrible interiors in the houses .

"the actress not the alien"!

Yes to ET
Yes to the dire interiors
They could have shot it in black and white and it wouldn't have looked much different

NellyBleuth you and me both. Never thought I'd see the day that I started lusting after KB... but that day, my friends, has come

Didn't Wallander et al. refer to it as a blackcurrant bush , not a blackberry bush? I thought it was so funny when he squashed a blackcurrant in his hand, just to make absolutely sure that even the stupidest viewer had worked out that the bushes on the old guy's land were the same bushes that had miraculously appeared on his doomladen plot of land.

Was anyone else appalled by the completely unnecessary depiction of horrendous violence leading to the death of the polish prostitute in her attacker's car? It contributed nothing to the advancement of the story and was so extreme that I had to look away.

Thing is - would he have cracked the case had Ellika not phoned him?

I guessed it was the farmer's son a long time before KB did.

Still enjoyed it though.

Yes, OatyBeatie - I had to turn away at that bit. Dh said he found it distressing too.

It was a bit slow and bleak.

He is a bit like a sulky teenager.