4/10
Nordic Nonsense From Start To Finish
29 March 2021
Man in Room 301

This drama had just one to many prepositions for it to work.

What really didn't work

The constant flitting backwards and forwards in time, so tiresome.

Everyone had issues, is no one ever happy or humdrum normal in Finland.

Just asking Elios's employer for a photograph or finding one in the internet would have halted any confusion in its tracks.

There was no reason for one sister to lie to the other she had a boyfriend.

If I had been to a family dinner and everyone was at each other's throats I wouldn't go again, I certainly wouldn't go on holiday with them.

Something was seemingly wrong in being part of the bourgeoise and this played out in daily guilt for any person in that predicament.

The consumption of alcohol had always a negative connotation.

A bizarre accident is insufficient narrative drive or motivation, and then to conceal this accident resulting in an innocent being prosecuted is quite frankly absurd.

Elias was being interviewed by the police about was happened and yet we never heard what happened, this was quite ridiculous, at the very least there would be a written statement.

We had no less than four repetitive scenes where adults were searching for children, what a total lack of imagination!

The denouement was equally absurd but I shan't ruin it if you decide to watch this rubbish.

On the whole this was derivative, predictable and far fetched with gaping plot holes that could never be resolved. The acting was pedestrian and the styling unimaginative. The BBC really must take more care in selecting only the "cream" of Nordic Noir!

At best a mediocre 4 out of 10.
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