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Title: Sweden is not this depressing
Review: I had high hopes for these three videos, having read the books. The camera work is truly beautiful. But they are way on the depressing side, and Kenneth Branagh, an actor I enjoy and respect, has decided to play Wallander as a kind of caricature, a sleepwalking incompetent whose bad decisions get people killed, or almost killed, in the case of his daughter (whose every line, it seems, begins with "Oh Daddy. . ."). How do characters like Wallander and House achieve one- or two-day-old beard stubble every day of the week? The way Wallander is played here, you think that perhaps if he got one week's worth of good sleep, his IQ would rise by perhaps 20 points and he could solve his cases much faster. In my opinion, if you haven't read the books you will have a hard time following some parts of the videos, because so many details have been left out. I so wish I could watch the Swedish versions of these.
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