an insult to the original

maji-1

i agree with narafem in that the American version just doesn't cut it. there is something about the Nordic aversion to the impassioned way of being (that is itself a character in this story) that is completely absent from the American version. the landscapes, and the now peaceful descendants of vikings living their days in their calm deliberate way...

it is as if the story were being retold not only with less one character but with a storyline that has been copied ineffectively. the tension between the American and the Mexican just doesn't have the same credibility as it does between the Dane and the Swede. the American show "The Killing" is a better executed copy and might i say improvement on the Danish show "Forbrydelsen."

score 2/10

maji-1 2 August 2013

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