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The Bridge BBC4
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Loved Wastelands, grim at times but seeing peoples lives (even though its a drama) was fascinating. Will look the Prof T up
LANGDON SEAGULL
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I’m watching Zerozerozero at the moment - absolutely brilliant
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Beach Hut
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Currently watching All The Sins season 2, very dark
LANGDON SEAGULL
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Just finished both seasons of that . Really impressed- but I thought they should have started with season 2 first
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Beach Hut
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Too right it seems to go backwards.
Very much enjoying Spiral as well, about to start Season 5
herecomesaregular
We're in the pipe, 5 by 5
Let down by some terrible plot holes and twists and about as realistic as Tom and Jerry but it still had enough to keep me watching until the end. Strong beginning but a very weak last few episodes.
Shooting Star
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Trapped on Prime is very, very good if you like the Bridge. Slightly slower pace, but very atmospheric. Icelandic.
Is it PotG?
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Very much looking forward to Series 3 later this year.
Beach Hut
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Watching a Danish Noir called Deliver Us on All4, very good
Beach Hut
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For those that like their foreign TV The Young Montalbano Series 2 starts this Saturday on BBC Four
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
The Bridge remains one of, if not THE finest pieces of work ever to grace our screens.
Swedish series Fallen has reunited two The Bridge alumni for a psychological noir that proves beyond a doubt that their chemistry extends beyond the popular, multi-season series that spawned several international imitations. As befits a Nordic drama, there’s red herrings aplenty to keep the twists coming in the criminal case, but there’s much more to Fallen than a murder mystery.
Star Sofia Helin is Iris Broman, a longtime cop who witnesses her husband’s brutal murder after the killers fail to hit their intended target: her. In a state of shock, grief and guilt, she leaves Stockholm for her half-sister’s holiday home in Ystad. Kattis (Hedda Stiernstedt, whose other work includes Börje, (also streaming on SBS On Demand) has made her main home in Paris and her two children are bilingual in Swedish and French. The sister’s similarities and differences result in a dance of familiarity and dissonance, a plotline that also has roots in Ahlgren’s personal experience.
The seaside town is intended to provide a balm for the emotionally wrought Iris, but 20 years of finely tuned observation, crime solving, and justice has hardwired her for criminal investigations. And she is far from retired. She has been strategically reassigned to lead the cold case team in Malmo, ‘Kalla Fall’, distracting her from interfering in her husband’s murder case.
When the body of an unidentified boy is discovered, it is seemingly linked to a crime that occurred over a decade earlier, and Iris becomes immersed in discovering who the victim is, why he was killed, and how the case went unsolved for so long. Did someone in authority have a vested interest in hiding the killer’s identity?
Before you put two and two together (The Bridge writer Camilla Ahlgren + lead actress Sofia Helin + crime drama = The Bridge 2.0), this is a different beast. There are inescapable similarities, which only strengthen the series. Helin is phenomenal at carrying the weight of her emotional darkness in the smallest gestures: a wince, a glance, the curl of her lip. As Iris, she is a loner to a degree - it’s the nature of her work - but she is seeking closeness and solace in her sister, Kattis, and she can empathise fiercely with the family seeking answers about their dead son.
As the iconic Saga Norén in The Bridge, Helin portrayed an autistic, traumatised woman who focused on the most finicky elements of criminal cases as a form of control over a life that was overwhelming and fearsome. There’s a softness to Iris that feels new and compelling, showcasing Helin’s versatility and Ahlgren’s capacity to sculpt a story and script that is sensitive to women’s complicated relationships with their sisters, their work, and the jarring expectations of women in professional and personal spheres. Interestingly, Ahlgren told Variety that she had not written the script with Helin in mind for the role of Iris. Years after an unsuccessful pitch, she tried again with a different channel and when they suggested attaching an established actor to the show, Helin’s name inevitably arose. It is impossible to envision anyone else as Iris once you witness Helin’s wholehearted, affecting depiction of a woman in tumult.
Swedish series Fallen has reunited two The Bridge alumni for a psychological noir that proves beyond a doubt that their chemistry extends beyond the popular, multi-season series that spawned several international imitations. As befits a Nordic drama, there’s red herrings aplenty to keep the twists coming in the criminal case, but there’s much more to Fallen than a murder mystery.
Star Sofia Helin is Iris Broman, a longtime cop who witnesses her husband’s brutal murder after the killers fail to hit their intended target: her. In a state of shock, grief and guilt, she leaves Stockholm for her half-sister’s holiday home in Ystad. Kattis (Hedda Stiernstedt, whose other work includes Börje, (also streaming on SBS On Demand) has made her main home in Paris and her two children are bilingual in Swedish and French. The sister’s similarities and differences result in a dance of familiarity and dissonance, a plotline that also has roots in Ahlgren’s personal experience.
The seaside town is intended to provide a balm for the emotionally wrought Iris, but 20 years of finely tuned observation, crime solving, and justice has hardwired her for criminal investigations. And she is far from retired. She has been strategically reassigned to lead the cold case team in Malmo, ‘Kalla Fall’, distracting her from interfering in her husband’s murder case.
When the body of an unidentified boy is discovered, it is seemingly linked to a crime that occurred over a decade earlier, and Iris becomes immersed in discovering who the victim is, why he was killed, and how the case went unsolved for so long. Did someone in authority have a vested interest in hiding the killer’s identity?
Before you put two and two together (The Bridge writer Camilla Ahlgren + lead actress Sofia Helin + crime drama = The Bridge 2.0), this is a different beast. There are inescapable similarities, which only strengthen the series. Helin is phenomenal at carrying the weight of her emotional darkness in the smallest gestures: a wince, a glance, the curl of her lip. As Iris, she is a loner to a degree - it’s the nature of her work - but she is seeking closeness and solace in her sister, Kattis, and she can empathise fiercely with the family seeking answers about their dead son.
As the iconic Saga Norén in The Bridge, Helin portrayed an autistic, traumatised woman who focused on the most finicky elements of criminal cases as a form of control over a life that was overwhelming and fearsome. There’s a softness to Iris that feels new and compelling, showcasing Helin’s versatility and Ahlgren’s capacity to sculpt a story and script that is sensitive to women’s complicated relationships with their sisters, their work, and the jarring expectations of women in professional and personal spheres. Interestingly, Ahlgren told Variety that she had not written the script with Helin in mind for the role of Iris. Years after an unsuccessful pitch, she tried again with a different channel and when they suggested attaching an established actor to the show, Helin’s name inevitably arose. It is impossible to envision anyone else as Iris once you witness Helin’s wholehearted, affecting depiction of a woman in tumult.
Thanks.
And The Killing. Spellbinding at the time, wish I hadn’t seen it yet. Borgen was also special.
Is Fallen on in the UK yet?
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Sadly no news yet.
Banijay Rights has scored a first batch of sales on “Fallen,” a crime drama reuniting “The Bridge” showrunner Camilla Ahlgren and star Sofia Helin. The series is produced by Banijay-owned Filmlance, a leading Scandinavian outfit.
Unveiled at the Goteborg Film Festival‘s TV Drama Vision conference, deals on “Fallen” include Canal+’s channel Polar+ in France, MHz Choice in the U.S., NPO in the Netherlands, SBS in Australia, ERT in Greece and Syn Hf in Iceland.
Early days!
Ooh it’s a corner
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Thanks @IsitPOTG - will it be on BBC4 I due course do you know?
sorry - just seen your above reply to another
sorry - just seen your above reply to another
Machiavelli
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I'm sure it's been done on the iPlayer thread, but we've just finished Prisoner with Sofie Grabol (from The Killing) and, if you like your Nordic noir, suspect you'll get on with this.
I have to mention that Sidse Babett Knudsen was lovely 
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Why? Why us?
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Ha ha. It’s funny, Denmark is such a small place that when I was chatting to my Danish mate about Borgen being on our screens and what a great series it was, he said about one of the stars of the show “oh, my sister in laws in that” and pulled out his phone to show me pics of her looking after their son whilst we were having dinner in Copenhagen with him and his wife.I have to mention that Sidse Babett Knudsen was lovely