The Medium is Not Enough TV blog: Microfeed for "Review: Wallander 1x1" http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/2008/12/review_wallander_1x1.php Comments for the entry "Review: Wallander 1x1" en-us Movable Type v4.32-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:05:39 +00:00 Comment from Marie I also enjoyed this, though mainly because of the gorgeous home furnishings. It did suffer slightly from (spoiler alert) "the only other well known actor is the murderer" syndrome though.

]]> 4568@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c27173 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:05:39 +00:00 Comment from Andrea I do like Branagh but this just made ME depressed. And I wonder how anyone could become such a top cop without having toughened up to at least some extent. Surely a policeman of his age and experience had come up against distressing cases many times before? It didn't really convince me that his ongoing personal problems combined with this one to produce such a breakdown as he gave at the end. In fact I wonder if Branagh was actually a bit too good for this and sort of acted the breakdown too well for what the plot actually was, if that makes sense?

]]> 4568@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c27181 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:03:10 +00:00 Comment from MediumRob Depends on how much crime there is in Ystad, I guess, and this isn't the first of the Wallander books, I don't think, so he could have been on the downward slide for some time.

]]> 4568@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c27202 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:43:20 +00:00 Comment from Chris I have the full set of DVDs with Krister Henriksson in the lead role (they come with English subtitles, whereas only a couple of those starring Rolf Lassgård do) and I think they're far better than Branagh's. Not decrying his acting - he's obviously very good - but it was incredibly slow for the first third. While the scenery is beautiful (we took holidays in Skane earlier this year), and well filmed, you see little of Ystad itself (whereas it features extensively in the Henriksson version), and the mispronunciations of names really grated. The dialogue seemed stilted, and gave no sense of Swedishness.

]]> 4568@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c27248 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:00:59 +00:00 Comment from Rullsenberg After some stuttering problems with Virgin Media's 'Catch Up' service (works when it feels like) we ended up watching Wallander 1 on the laptop and then Wallander 2 on the TV.

I thought they were both rather good - slow but thoughtful, good and grim and grisly. Still, I'd certainly like to look up the Krister Henriksson versions...

]]> 4568@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c27253 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:08:54 +00:00 Comment from Anonymous Wallander is brilliant and Branagh is such a good actor. Great stories, scenery, and atmosphere. Please bring it back after the third episode.

]]> 4568@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c27257 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:29:17 +00:00 Comment from bookwitch Here is what I said earlier about Wallander. There are more blog posts about the series if you go back in time. (That's without turning into Doctor Who.)
http://culturewitch.wordpress.com/2008/12/15/its-just-too-bbc/
The BBC have done a good job, but it's very British, apart from the landscape. And don't get me started on the pronunciation! It's almost as hard to understand what names they have mangled as it is to mistreat the names of Ikea products. Imagine being Swedish and not being able to guess how to pronounce the names "in English".

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