River started with great promise starring the legendary Stellan Skarsgard a Swedish actor who appears absolutely anywhere I once saw him in a Merchant/Ivory Bollywood film made in the late 1980s!
The first episode was intriguing, River is talking to his partner Stevie (Nicola Walker) but it turns out she is dead, murdered actually.
River is haunted by past visions, manifestations as he calls them who constantly talk to him and even grate him which he tries to ignore but sometimes talks back to them like Stevie.
River is certainly a cop on the edge. His new partner wants to get to know him even be respected by him but River just ignores him. His superiors want him to see the resident shrink which he does so reluctantly. All the time River wants to find out who killed Stevie and their is also a sub-plot about illegal migrants.
The drama like other Scandi crime dramas is a slow burn although in this case some of the episodes did end with a nice disco song which offset the colourless and humourless River.
However as each episode went on and as River's behaviour becomes even more erratic and I really found the series to be hard going. Although the series was multi layered I did find the conclusion unsatisfactory apart from River will just have to live with his manifestations and that he may not had really known Stevie as well as he thought.
The first episode was intriguing, River is talking to his partner Stevie (Nicola Walker) but it turns out she is dead, murdered actually.
River is haunted by past visions, manifestations as he calls them who constantly talk to him and even grate him which he tries to ignore but sometimes talks back to them like Stevie.
River is certainly a cop on the edge. His new partner wants to get to know him even be respected by him but River just ignores him. His superiors want him to see the resident shrink which he does so reluctantly. All the time River wants to find out who killed Stevie and their is also a sub-plot about illegal migrants.
The drama like other Scandi crime dramas is a slow burn although in this case some of the episodes did end with a nice disco song which offset the colourless and humourless River.
However as each episode went on and as River's behaviour becomes even more erratic and I really found the series to be hard going. Although the series was multi layered I did find the conclusion unsatisfactory apart from River will just have to live with his manifestations and that he may not had really known Stevie as well as he thought.