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The Killing
The Killing AKA Forbrydelsen (meaning “The Crime”) is a Danish TV crime series that spans 20 days over a 20 episode 6 disc package. Being Danish it obviously has subtitles for it’s local release, but don’ let this small inconvenience put you off what is probably the best murder/mystery/political thriller you’re likely to see.
The story follows three main people after the discovery of the body of murdered teenager Nanna Birk Larsen. The first being Detective Inspector Sarah Lund, whose tenacity on her last day of work, sees her discovering Nanna’s body when all around her were ready to label it as a missing persons case. Unfortunately for Lund, who was about to move to Sweden with her fiance, Her boss insists that she stay on to work the case.
The second focus of the series is on the Birk Larsen family and how they deal with the grief, and an investigation that keeps jumping from suspect to suspect. Finally there is local politician Troels Hartmann who is hard on the campaign trail when he gets unwittingly dragged into the whole mess.
Lund however is the power of the show, as we follower her spiral into obsession as she has to fight off invisible forces who would want to hide the truth. Read the rest of this entry »
