Hugely disappointing follow up. It is a whodunit, the question being who killed the originality, plotting and characterisation of the first series? The plot is absurd, a hackneyed conspiracy theory mash-up.
The players are utterly uninteresting, not one comes close to the depth of even the part time participants of the first series (e.g. Rama) let alone the main ones.
Sarah Lund seems to just sleepwalk through the whole show, some events seeming to be stage managed just so she can become a cliché of herself in series 1 (mother's wedding being the worst example).
The reveal at the end beggars belief. It requires superhuman feats of timing/energy/endurance from the killer while also requiring their stupidity to only be matched by their victims and all others involved.
I have to think the favourable reviews and awards given to this show are due to some sort of Emperor's Clothes effect due to it being Danish with "real" looking actors. If the exact same plot, translated word for word into English, been made an American company (complete with cover page actors), it would, rightly, have been ridiculed.
The players are utterly uninteresting, not one comes close to the depth of even the part time participants of the first series (e.g. Rama) let alone the main ones.
Sarah Lund seems to just sleepwalk through the whole show, some events seeming to be stage managed just so she can become a cliché of herself in series 1 (mother's wedding being the worst example).
The reveal at the end beggars belief. It requires superhuman feats of timing/energy/endurance from the killer while also requiring their stupidity to only be matched by their victims and all others involved.
I have to think the favourable reviews and awards given to this show are due to some sort of Emperor's Clothes effect due to it being Danish with "real" looking actors. If the exact same plot, translated word for word into English, been made an American company (complete with cover page actors), it would, rightly, have been ridiculed.