So despite the presence of CCTV cameras in the plot, it’s relatively easy to spot that the story was written at a time when ATMs weren’t that common in Sweden, and people genuinely could forget to bring their current bank card with them so be forced to write a personal cheque in a bank for cash. Problematically, this feels like exactly what it is: a slightly poor attempt to update a slightly old (1991) book for modern times. It’s a story that is basically a giant red herring for most of the episode, followed by a stupid revelation that should have been spotted within the first 20 minutes of the story if some competent police officers were at work. Looked on as a detective story, this adaptation of The Faceless Killers is pretty hopeless. The fallout from the case leads Wallander to doubt everything, including his abilities as a police officer. A police leak of the wife’s dying words leads to an outbreak of racist reprisals in Ystad. Wallander investigates the brutal slaying of an elderly couple at an isolated farmhouse. Now it’s back and everyone seems just a little bit more hopeless than ever. Remember The Fast Show? There was a character, a zookeeper, who seemed perpetually surprised by his job.Īnd so it is with Wallander, the detective show starring Kenneth Branagh as the miserable Kurt Wallander, in which all the detectives and even the police officers seem perpetually surprised by the fact people do bad things. In the UK: Sunday 4th January, 9.30pm, BBC1/BBC1 HD.
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