I had very high expectations on this show as I was really intrigued by the synopsis and its potentially nail-biting mystery. A woman who's daughter inexplicably vanishes in the woods never to be found and then 7 years later a boy goes missing under the same circumstances in the same woods? Come on! It could be one hell of an interesting story!
But as so many times before regarding Swedish television shows it seems like disappointment is once again looking my way.
First of all the script has some very hard to disregard types of holes. For example the female main character is a cop...but keeps asking people for the address of a man who's name she knows. Has she been living under a rock for the past 20-30 years? Not knowing how easy it is nowadays to just go online and look somebody up? Nobody taught her this during her police-training?
Another thing, during the first episode the same character crashes her car trying to avoid hitting a person that suddenly shows up in the middle of the road. It turns out this person is a young girl in a state of chock and can't respond to her surroundings. Now, the community is focused on finding a missing boy, and the local cops are aware of the main characters belief that there might be a link between the unsolved case of her own missing daughter and the recently vanished boy... But not a single cop in the first episode thinks it's worth while to take a little look in the surrounding woods where this girl was discovered by the main character? Not even a little glance? Na, it's just not worth it I guess...
I admit, the main character takes a little look and sure enough she stumbles upon something interesting! Who would have thought! Not the local cops or anyone els I guess...
You know when I watch a really good police show... I don't feel smarter then the cops. The mystery is as mysterious to me as it is to the characters in the show. (True Detective is a great example of this)
In this show not only do I feel smarter than the cops, I laugh at their stupidity.
In another scene the main characters daughter shows up in a dream sequence, I guess, and asks her mother why she gave up looking for her and I cringed during the entire scene. It just seemed so unnecessary, almost like the creators are begging the audience to find them creative and imaginative. Everything about that scene was forced and repetitive. We already know the main character is suffering, we know she feels guilty for not finding her daughter and solving the case. If they really wanted to push that point they could have done it in another way that actually would have been creative instead of just slow and boring.
But Swedish television shows seems to love those to ingredients, slow and boring.
This show has hyped itself as a mysterious one, but if you kind of know what is going on after the very first episode...is it really that mysterious?
I say this, there is something very wrong with Swedish television shows and movies, I have a strong feeling they could not only be so much better but that something in the very fabric or infrastructure of Swedish creative storytelling and movie-making is hindering it, always keeping it slow, boring, and predictable.
But as so many times before regarding Swedish television shows it seems like disappointment is once again looking my way.
First of all the script has some very hard to disregard types of holes. For example the female main character is a cop...but keeps asking people for the address of a man who's name she knows. Has she been living under a rock for the past 20-30 years? Not knowing how easy it is nowadays to just go online and look somebody up? Nobody taught her this during her police-training?
Another thing, during the first episode the same character crashes her car trying to avoid hitting a person that suddenly shows up in the middle of the road. It turns out this person is a young girl in a state of chock and can't respond to her surroundings. Now, the community is focused on finding a missing boy, and the local cops are aware of the main characters belief that there might be a link between the unsolved case of her own missing daughter and the recently vanished boy... But not a single cop in the first episode thinks it's worth while to take a little look in the surrounding woods where this girl was discovered by the main character? Not even a little glance? Na, it's just not worth it I guess...
I admit, the main character takes a little look and sure enough she stumbles upon something interesting! Who would have thought! Not the local cops or anyone els I guess...
You know when I watch a really good police show... I don't feel smarter then the cops. The mystery is as mysterious to me as it is to the characters in the show. (True Detective is a great example of this)
In this show not only do I feel smarter than the cops, I laugh at their stupidity.
In another scene the main characters daughter shows up in a dream sequence, I guess, and asks her mother why she gave up looking for her and I cringed during the entire scene. It just seemed so unnecessary, almost like the creators are begging the audience to find them creative and imaginative. Everything about that scene was forced and repetitive. We already know the main character is suffering, we know she feels guilty for not finding her daughter and solving the case. If they really wanted to push that point they could have done it in another way that actually would have been creative instead of just slow and boring.
But Swedish television shows seems to love those to ingredients, slow and boring.
This show has hyped itself as a mysterious one, but if you kind of know what is going on after the very first episode...is it really that mysterious?
I say this, there is something very wrong with Swedish television shows and movies, I have a strong feeling they could not only be so much better but that something in the very fabric or infrastructure of Swedish creative storytelling and movie-making is hindering it, always keeping it slow, boring, and predictable.