Wallander

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Bügger!
Just settled down to watch and it´s the Kenneth Brannagh one!
Disappointed!

I'm holding my head up proudly vis-a-vis forking out the money for the DVD (assuming they ever turn up) because I am a sad sad person who will watch them whild DH is at the pub and I argue that my night in alone with wine should cost at least as much as his at pub. . Swedish sounds a perplexing language tho', like blackduck sometimes I seem to be able to understand it without subtitles and then they suddenly seem to be speaking Clanger.
Very disappointed with the KB Wallander which I watched last night... I kept on feeling I was watching a Volvo advert, car drives through cornfield, car drives throught city, car drives through migrant worker camp (alright, probably not the last one)

sooo tried to like it,finally deleted it after 3 nights of persevering.i thought it was a bafta winner?

Good excuse pantshanenames.

Hifi I wonder if the first series was better. Can't really remember, and of course when that was on I hadn't seen any Swedish ones so nothing to coomopare it to.

slightly off-topic, do swedish front doors all open outwards like they did on Wallander the other night? am very curious

DH remembers the police station in the KB pilot as being incredibly hip and Swedish, lots of shiny wood and subtle lighting. He is disappointed that the set designer seems to have been given a dressing-down: now it's all jumbled-up boxfiles and tired pot plants on windowsills (truer to the books, though). I drifted off a bit last weekend, must confess.

It annoys me a bit that KB is WOLLander whereas in Swedish version the character is Voll-LANDer.

shutup glad I'm not the only one to wonder! In the Swedish series all the doors are like that.

I am half Swedish so I am very biased towards the Swedish ones. Pantshavenames - you will be surprised how logical Swedish is - it's a relatively easy language to learn. I'm not sure about the front doors - but I think you could be onto something here if I think carefully about how I enter my relatives' houses when we visit. Maybe it's to do with keeping snow out of the hall that gathers at the foot of the door?

HM has written one final Wallander which has yet to be translated into English.

a lot of Swedish is the same as lowland Scots.

LoveFilm rent out the Swedish Wallander DVDs.

ooh interesting about the snow. I wondered if it was to twat unwanted visitors in the face as you opened the door...