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Harjunpää (2022)
Watchable butt not great
I'm intrigued by two issues that keep repeating in this series. Almost as if the writers had a purpose in making this other than the just making a tv show show.
The first is that the police in Finland are grossly underpaid. There are constant references to senior police almost living in poverty, unable to look after their families.
There is also an obsession with the claim that junior offenders don't get punished there. In many scenes the offenders are arrested and lean back unaffected and say "it's ok I'm underage - I'll just get off with community service"
I felt like screaming at the tv "just record the conversation and play it to the judge!"
Many of the issues concerning the privates lives of the police are just bland and uninteresting as if they just felt the need to throws that in.
Reyka (2021)
Starts well but let down by ridiculous plot holes
Ok so you've been kidnapped for five years when you were a child and your kidnapper is wanting to be paroled. You visit him in jail because you still have a soft spot for him (daddy issues). He keeps saying that you all lived together and you have to keep reminding him that you were a prisoner!
How can anyone possible be considered for parole who doesn't acknowledge their crimes? I was waiting for someone to just ask him is he intending to kidnap some other child when he is released so that he can have a family again. Spoiler alert - he does!!!
Les Norton (2019)
Tepid attempt
The books were hilarious and the violence almost comic book in the original, so you didn't have to take it really seriously. Now turned into live action it's just too over the top and the voice over is just lame. Like the worst of underbelly. Instead of echoing the book it sound like someone's explaining it all to you.