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When you watch shows like this, which I kind of enjoy, it doesn't mean just because they're Nordic they're good. This one reminds me a lot of Wallander's brilliant and (real-life) tragic first series, with the daughter (this time a reporter) Nancy Drewing the cases while her dad bumbles through police bureaucracy and his new widower status. (Yawn) Wisting is a fan of the Easter Island school of acting, gravitas always, not too many laughs. Actually none so far. But while the stories are ok, by the end of the second series there arent too many OMG moments, just one and it wasn't bad either. Believability is stretched in S2 by a heinous multiple crime against a minor that seems to have 6 ppl working on it. If such an awful thing actually happened, a whole nation like Norway would be in uproar. There's not much sense of urgency here, to say the least! But young Line will solve it... After S2, three stars

Unbelievable, with a lead so, so lacking in charm. How on earth was she ever cast. She also looks way too old for the part. That said, some minor performers are ok. But both leads are humorless. And the script has zero surprises. Extra kudos to the art director who made the whole thing look even more bland than it already was. Admittedly, this was so bad, it was good! Trite, tired and predictable. Enjoy!

There's a couple of decent storylines amongst a plethora of red herrings and badly drawn minor and major characters. Great scenery and an underdeveloped script. But both are not as bad as the directing often seems. One veteran actor in particular was so unwatchable it seemed she had phoned this one in, or she thought this was a comedy in some scenes. I was reminded of the best of Sean Micallef Program when they parodied legal dramas like Carson's Law. It's overly long, and like others I had no idea what they were supposed to be investigating. The storyline reminded me a lot of Deadloch, but that was very funny and you could follow that for the most part. But not this overblown clichefest. Watch if you must

Really enjoyed the first film featuring Aaron Falk, but despite the strong cast and great performances by the women in this movie, it's ultimately disappointing. While the Australian bush is the real star here, the script is the problem. There's so much dumb stuff going on we're not sure where this story is going and this one has more red herrings than a fish market. There's also a back story with our hero and his family's link with this place. It's not in the book and is just an unnecessary distraction. The most dispiriting aspect was the acting from some of the the major characters. Bana just doesn't seem invested in this and some of his lines just come across as so wooden. A minor character too has problems in the acting stakes, an issue with so many Australian productions. But Furness, Torv and the always excellent McKenzie shine in their respective roles, but the script just doesn't give them enough to do. Despite this, it's enjoyable enough, just could have been so much better if they had tightened it up.

So many commenters don't understand what they're watching here. This isn't your average WWll story. As we know from recent events no one believes war will start until it does. At this time the Vichy area of France had been almost untouched by the war, the vibrant cosmopolitan atmosphere of southern France lingering from the '30's. In early1940, the war hadn't really begun, and everyone was waiting on Germany to make a move. Well move it did and took France in a few weeks and then we had the Battle of Britain and later the Blitz. Things began to get serious but there were a few who had recognized the real danger early, those Americans and other foreigners who were in France when war broke out. They were in a unique position (as neutrals) to help people get out. The casual atmosphere is one of the stranger and most misunderstood aspects of the Second World War, unremembered because of the gargantuan scale of the horrors that soon followed. Just read magazines and newspapers from the time, late '39 to early '40, they hardly mentioned the war, because there wasn't one. Declared yes, but what next... Meanwhile inside Germany enemies of the state had been persecuted hounded out, especially intellectuals and artists. Many complain of the "fun" atmosphere of "Transatlantic" but it's not really, just the long surrealist party scene in Ep 3. It doesn't seem out of place. On the downside, Marseilles, while actually being Marseilles, is strangely empty in most scenes. I imagine it would have been packed and chaotic at the time. And a walk over the Pyrenees seems like a walk to the corner shop, look at a map, it's several hundred miles. And the partisan girl would have been arrested walking onto the street for one minute, for looking like a partisan. So while this is quite a story, and there's lots to like here, it's not intensely moving and it really makes you wonder what happened to these heroic people next. Early on it doesn't make any effort to explain the situation so Ep.1 is a bit confusing. Great photography, performances by most of the leads (especially Stoll) and many playing the artists and intellectuals. It's just all happening in a strangely deserted landscape, unpopulated by French people but plenty of gendarmes. Special mention for the end credits, especially Ep. 6. The Bauhaus, Buñuel or Man Ray would be proud! And the ERC lives on, now the IRC, helping displaced and distressed people everywhere. Quite a legacy. Could have been truly great, but quite good.

Far, far worse than the first season, if that was possible. Any semblance of reality is now gone. Any "struggle" from Season 1 has now been trashed and it's "Let's Make a Deal" (with the ex-). It has very little "drama" now, as any "work" that was being done by a our heroine and her "COO" is now completely out the window seeing that there is no actual work, so that pretense is over. The vacuosity of this show leaves one in no doubt who should be offended by this: everyone. I'm secular and was offended with the constant merry-go-round of manufactured partying with "friends". I ended up feeling sorry for those people of faith, or just human decency, that this charade of bread and circuses brought to the screen with cringeworthy regularity. There's so much to be embarrassed about here, (mainly the outfits and the narcissism, of almost everyone) but the last ep was a surprise when Julia had some sensible advice to her unfortunate and entitled progeny. That was a bit of the old Julia from Season 1. And as of December 2022, Haart Sphere still isn't up and running. Quel Surprise

Great in the air, the "story" is so contrived and boring. Anyway they got their money's worth out of the aerial scenes which are truly spectacular. Extra bonus, we get to see the "Tom Cruise run" which is good for a laugh. Miles Teller should never ever wear a moustache. Jennifer Connelly is a token woman hanging out for Tom and Jon Hamm is good enough. Idk what VKilmer is supposed to be doing what's the story there. Special mention for the sound guys, just about the best sound editing and mixing I've ever heard, amazing stuff. So an extra star there.