This 6-part series could easily have been told in 2-parts without a single loss of anything important.
First, you ditch the entire "my daughter doesn't understand why my job is more important than her life" subplot - that saves you one episode.
Second, you cut back on the innumerable "let's watch the ships go out of the harbor: shots - that saves you two episodes.
Third, you eliminate 97% of the shots of someone walking down that boring, bland hallway and 99% of the shots of the chief detective driving in and out of the parking garage and all of the shots of the inspector sitting in his car outside forensics and all the shots of the inspector staring out his office window and the repeated shots of the whiteboard that says the same things over and over and over and then you trim the visits to parents back to just a couple of times. A tight edit of these repeating images would save you another episode.
Now, you're down to a 2-episode arc that tells the core portions of the investigation, discusses the Danish legal system that lets a defendant endlessly change his story without any penalty in terms of guilt, and you end with the uplifting funds established to promote journalism.
Bringing this series in at 2 - or the most 3 - episodes would have much better result in getting people to watch this series and understand the story. As it is - if people actually get to the 4th episode, I'd put money that most are fast forwarding through all the endless shots of leaving the harbor, staring out the window, sitting in the car, arguing with the daughter, walking the dogs, etc.
First, you ditch the entire "my daughter doesn't understand why my job is more important than her life" subplot - that saves you one episode.
Second, you cut back on the innumerable "let's watch the ships go out of the harbor: shots - that saves you two episodes.
Third, you eliminate 97% of the shots of someone walking down that boring, bland hallway and 99% of the shots of the chief detective driving in and out of the parking garage and all of the shots of the inspector sitting in his car outside forensics and all the shots of the inspector staring out his office window and the repeated shots of the whiteboard that says the same things over and over and over and then you trim the visits to parents back to just a couple of times. A tight edit of these repeating images would save you another episode.
Now, you're down to a 2-episode arc that tells the core portions of the investigation, discusses the Danish legal system that lets a defendant endlessly change his story without any penalty in terms of guilt, and you end with the uplifting funds established to promote journalism.
Bringing this series in at 2 - or the most 3 - episodes would have much better result in getting people to watch this series and understand the story. As it is - if people actually get to the 4th episode, I'd put money that most are fast forwarding through all the endless shots of leaving the harbor, staring out the window, sitting in the car, arguing with the daughter, walking the dogs, etc.