Incidentally, Yellow Bird also produced the excellent Millennium trilogy films based on Stieg Larsson’s books. With Lithuania standing in for Malmö, the show is produced by Yellow Bird which was set up by Mankell and Danish producer Ole Søndberg in 2003. Charles Mnene as gang-leader Bash, Jacob Collins-Levy as slimy rich guy Karl-Axel Munck and Alan Emrys as his brother, Gustav, do what they can with their sketchily written parts. The central mystery of a hate crime, seasoned with rich people’s secrets, torture (why was the poor dog killed?) drugs and smuggling is not particularly engaging.Ĭast-wise Adam Pålsson makes for a buff Wallander before junk food and diabetes wrecked his body and Ellise Chappell is pretty as Mona. If the idea was to set the series in the present to bring modern, first-world problems to the fore, it is done in a lackadaisical manner. Also he seems to be working alone with the others, including his mentor, Hemberg (Richard Dillane), his boss, Rask (Leanne Best), and his best friend and fellow police officer, Reza (Yasen Atour), being glorified flunkeys. Young Wallander does not show the police officer to be either tenacious or insightful as the clues fall into his lap. Finding out the truth behind horrific crimes was as much a result of the ability to see connections as the patience to dig them out. The strong point of Mankell’s novels was Wallander’s dogged determination and painstaking thoroughness. Storyline: An origin story for our favourite Swedish detectiveĪt a time when technology is evolving at a breathtaking pace,Īlex Rider (the books are set fairly recently in the 2000s), showed how to update seamlessly.
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