Salamander - not Danish but.....

[guineapiglet]

Not bad either...

Good, convincing plot, hunky chief inspector and good setting. Enjoyed the Flemish which isn't unlike Danish...

There was a huge scandal in Belguim some years ago involving lots of government figures, judges etc in a huge paedophile ring am wondering if that's where this is going. Good stuff,but no Saga.

thanks, maybe we can sleep tonight!

oh hagelslag sandwiches.
that and stompepot were the staples of my dutch flat mate.

I'm missing the strong women, maybe they are still to come

actually, it reminds me a lot of dr kimble the fugitive.

Last nights double bill was pretty watchable and absorbing with the corruption spreading up to the highest levels of Belgian society...lots of car chases through sunny fields, a shower scene and a very feisty politician's wife. The meeting of the salamander society at the beginning was creepy. The black and white photo of all the lads in 1944 is obviously significant, wonder if they are all resistance fighters from WW2 and the salamanders were collaborators ?

Good stuff

Ps
Hagelslag sandwiches?
My Dutch aunt had a little ceramic house which she stored the hagel in. We used to get through packets of the stuff!

Surely the Salamanders can't have had a role in WW2 - they'd be very much older than they are. (Not that I've got a likely alternative to put forward!)

Yes. They would have to be sons and daughters of the collaborators and obviously in key positions open to bllackmail anyway. Either that or a secret society Opus Dei type thing la di vinci code...

hi is anybody else watching this!?
was really good last night, lots of twists especially at the end and a very duplicitous minister's wife..... it isn't as well written or compulsive as The Bridge, but it is a good yarn and hei is very watchable.

and......it looks like my resistance theory could be right .....keep with it it gets better...

Still watching - agree that last night's was good, and guinea you were right about the WW2 / resistance connection! I thought the minister's wife was a good feisty character at first, but I didn't like the way she suddenly threw herself at Geradi rather than helping him find out the truth. It was a shocking ending.

With all the corruption spread through to the highest ranks of society it reminds me a lot of some scandals closer to home... I'm struggling to understand why the owners of the safes kept the incriminating photos of themselves though, rather than destroying them?

On Wikipedia it says there is going to be a British remake.

" Flemish is Dutch, more or less. A soft 'g', a slightly different sentence structure, and a few French words thrown in. But don't tell anyone I told you. Wars have been fought over it."

scarletMP that is a marvellous post : I respect you brevity, your knowledge and your sense of humour.

I wish I knew what Walloon is.

Love sexy silver fox detective
Plot is preposterous but I am suspending disbelief like an eejit.

finally up to date again. it's enjoyable. wonder who the big boss is?

walloon = french speaking part of belgium (very generalised explanation)

I like it more with each episode. Great explosive cliffhanger this week.
Don't like any character in particular but think the pace of it is good and there's a handful of storylines to keep you guessing.

Looking more like Nazi criminals than pedophilia me thinks

Anone know how many episodes to this series pls?

Twelve episodes so we're halfway. Enjoying this one - nice fast pace. He is definitely not my cup of tea though - Luca Zingaretti he ain't

We really look forward to this each week. We had an in depth discussion with some Belgian friends as to how realistic it was. (Quite accurate was their opinion!)

just caught up with weekend's episodes - it is going on a bit now, but the plot is thickening with the resistance flash backs to 1944 etc and the death of more of Belguim's finest politicians, in fact everyone of them seems to be corrupt. I find Paul very sympathetic but a bit one dimensional, and there are no real strong women characters, except maybe the 1944 mum? Not sure about it at all, as it hasn't really got the depth of the danish dramas, but enough to keep us watching!

There are no really strong characters except Paul (not hunky, boo shame) and I suppose the Public Prosecutor. Jonkhere is cliche villain supreme, though very sinister. And yet I am gripped by it.

Quite like the fact that Paul,m though in many ways a hopeless husband, is not the conventional TV detective love rat. His daughter is quite feisty.

The pacing is a bit off-some things take ages to emerge, others (Paul deciding to work for the PP) just suddenly happen in an almost abrupt way.

I just love the Rasenbergs (and their house). Just awful, both of them, in different ways, but compelling telly figures because of it.

lol angela at the Rasenbergs....they are so vile.

but I do find Paul 'hunky' in a way, someone up thread described him as a 'silvery fox' - lovely!!! but then I am an old fox myself :)

4 episodes to go, piglet, tell me your preferred ending scenarios...

Mine is yet to be fully worked out but will have to involve Karin Rasenberg copping off with Paul's old boss the commissioner, Prince Olivier going into exile to do charity work with Save the Children in Botswana and Jonkhere's horrid little mate in the shiny suits and Wolffs' sinister chief robber/garotter bumping each other off in a shoot-out.

just watched last week's episodes.
it's brewing up to a grand finale.
any theories about how wolf got his fortune?

anyone else likes the distinct stereotypical characters?
this vincent guy is just urgh

Sorry to join the thread late but I have watched the season on catch up until tonight.

Anyone else feel they rushed the ending a little? Agree, mous, re the stereotypes. Liked Gerardi - but the white hair, white vests were very "look at the good guy here" and Vincent the black and slimey.

On the whole I liked most of it, to be fair. Do we have an Italian detective next week?

I thought it was good.

yes, we all enjoyed it but thought it was entirely predictable, and the 'rounding up' of salamander people at the end very rushed, thought they would leave it hanging to make way for series 2 ....t'was ok. loved the language and the settings/ countryside and the flasbacks to WW2...but enough now, missing grey skies in Scandinavia !!!

we only watched one but discovered the first Bridge on netflix and prefer that. have also discovered wallander. so i reckon that will be next.