What next scandi noir stuff?

Just finishing the man in room 301.
Done The Bridge and some others I can’t remember all the names of.
What you got?

Walter Presents? Can recommend ‘The Twelve’ which is Belgian. ‘Torn’ set in Provence featuring Captain Bremont (father of Laure’s baby) from Spiral, there’s actually two series. He also features in ‘Detective Cain’ which is set in Marseille and playing a larger than life character who’s accompanied by a sexy sidekick. ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill’ is set in Turin and is pretty good although one series was enough. ‘All The Sins’ is good, set in Finland. Also ‘Stockholm Requiem’.

Good luck with that lot!

Wow, thanks CG I’ll have a shifty!

Have done some editing OTS!

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2341762/

The Legacy (Arvingerne)
Slightly bonkers, but I found it riveting.

As c_g recommended, Walter Presents on 4OD is good for reasonable quality foreign language stuff. Twelve was ok I thought, although I was under the impression the makers would do more of the jury – whereas they just concentrated on around half of them. Still a good watch.

I enjoyed Beck.

We’re enjoying Bullets on Walter Presents which is Finnish. If you can find it (it was on iPlayer but I think it just expired after a year) Wisting from Norway is good too. Both are a bit different to the traditional murder mystery formulas. In fact, Bullets is more about international terrorism and drug smuggling.

I loved Bordertown, which is Finnish and features some spectacular landscapes. If you don’t mind a hint of a supernatural element, The Forest – which is French – is a good shout. My most recent was The Valhalla Murders, which is Icelandic, and which I quite enjoyed.

In any case, I thought I had seen them all – from Iceland, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, France, Wales (Hinterland)… but cinnamon_girl lists a whole bunch I had never even heard of. Thanks, CG!

It’s not noir but it is scandi – we really enjoyed love and anarchy on Netflix recently

I loved Bordertown, which is Finnish and features some spectacular landscapes.

Me too – we have had a Finnish fest lately, also Deadwinds on Netflix. We also spotted the guy from Bordertown as the pathologist in Rebecca Martinsson (more spectacular landscape from N Sweden, around Kiruna )

The Legacy (Arvingerne)

This is a who’s who of Danish TV :-). If you liked Marie Bach Hansen, you can see more of her in “The Team”.

It’s Canadian rather than Scandi, but Cardinal (all on iPlayer) is very similar in style to the Bridge and the Killing.

Good call, @verses. I quite liked Cardinal. But then, I could be biased. 😉

Twelve was ok I thought, although I was under the impression the makers would do more of the jury – whereas they just concentrated on around half of them. Still a good watch.

@dd – there was a fair bit of background given on those jurors though which imo was a good thing. Some time ago there’d been a Welsh Noir series covering a court case, it really was a black comedy at times!

Very impressed with ‘The Border’. It was a bleak watch especially against the backdrop of a creepy forest with steep-sided valleys. Second series featured a harrowing scene, you have been warned.

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-border/episode-guide/series-1

Going back to Welsh Noir there’s a new series called ‘Bregus’ and the person playing the lead role may be familiar to some of you. Only part-way through the second episode and not sure whether I’ll stick with it.

https://www.s4c.cymru/clic/programme/807393666

Will be checking out those mentioned.

Lilyhammer.

A few more from All 4:
Moscow Noir
Alex
Amsterdam Vice
Before We Die
Fear by the Lake – filmed around Annecy
Monster
Philharmonia – French and has the benefit of some nice music

@SaxonRider we referred to it as Canadi-noir

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Good call, @verses. I quite liked Cardinal. But then, I could be biased. 😉

We did about a season and a half; it has a lot of the scandi noir elements, and the Quebecois detective is top notch. But we checked out because it seemed to err on the torture porn side, which we really weren’t fans of.

We’re watching Bordertown and like it. Also Trapped – Icelandic, 2 seasons, very similar elements. Wallander (Swedish or Brannagh in English but in Sweden); Wisting (Norwegian, but same same).

Also The Passenger – French with an improbably attractive detective.

Going back to Welsh Noir there’s a new series called ‘Bregus’ and the person playing the lead role may be familiar to some of you.

She is in all Welsh TV shows isn’t she ??

All the Welsh noir series have really made me worried about going there for a hiking trip or whatever – the valleys are full of psycho killers!!

Hinterland for Welsh noir. It’s not bad – you can tell that it was commissioned because of Welsh language quotas, but clearly in the second season they installed some better producers on it and it steps up a level. And the last couple of seasons really ramp up to give a sense of direction.

Shetland is of course much less noir, but certainly the latter seasons have a slightly darker tone with the lighter stuff

The investigation. Drama based on the true submarine killer based in Denmark. Very raw even by scandi noir standards.

We did about a season and a half; it has a lot of the scandi noir elements, and the Quebecois detective is top notch. But we checked out because it seemed to err on the torture porn side, which we really weren’t fans of.

Yes definitely and it was ghastly but it did tone down thank goodness.

She is in all Welsh TV shows isn’t she ??

All? I just couldn’t remember! Talking of Welsh Noir, a third series of ‘Craith’ (‘Hidden’ in English) is currently being filmed. Top quality drama.

My Walter presents best watches are;

Hotel beau sejour, Belgian telly and superb crime/murder mystery

Professor T, also Belgian. Crime solving and much bizarreness

Ride upon the storm, Danish drama. An unlikely subject but first class TV.

All the other stuff mentioned, all of which is quality TV but just not as good as the three above imo. Someone mentioned before we die, which was good but unbearably tense! I can’t face the second series

I haven’t stuck any french TV beyond ep1, just can’t get into it.

I was quite enjoying inspector falke, German cop drama, but it suddenly turned pants in series 2 and I gave up.

To be honest if you think Shetland is good TV you are in for a shock

So … as much as I was enjoying some serious crime drama, there came a point when I’d seen enough dimly lit rooms where one couldn’t see what the heck was going on, the characters who never smiled and lived a miserable life and the general lack of joy or should I say bonhomie.

Antidote: drama from the Netherlands which was like a breath of fresh air. Great stuff, all 3 series.

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-adulterer

I’m becoming obsessed with Nordic noir

I watched the killing season 1 years ago and it was one of the best things I’d ever seen

But, for some reason, only just finished series 2 last night and it was really good too. Ill crack on with season 3, on iPlayer then there’s a few things on Netflix, any recommendations for where to go next?

Added bonus I’m finding is that subtitled drama forces me to put my phone down and pay attention

Definitely feel an affinity with the Scandinavians it’s just the languages are impenetrable

@fingerbang did you know that there is a US version of The Killing? It is excellent and the male lead detective, Joel Kinnerman, is superb.

Just finished ‘Monster’ on All4 which is set in Northern Norway, only 7 episodes and the one series. Jeez, what a hellhole with a ghastly family causing mayhem. The sky was always overcast and grey grey grey, imagine living there shudder!

Can’t remember whether I mentioned ‘The River’, again set in grey grey grey Northern Norway. Twas good but only one series.

I really enjoyed beck

Not sure if it qualifies but I’ve just finished season one of The Break, it’s Belgian and on Netflix. There’s 2 seasons of it. Really enjoyed it.

I really enjoyed beck

Agreed. New series should be appearing on, presumably, BBC4 in, presumably, the not too distant future as it’s been shown already on Swedish telly.

We are watching The Killing just now.

Not sure which series but its the one that opens with the girl in the woods.

So far very watchable and agree with out the phone down.

For reading I’ve enjoyed a number of Henning Mankel’s books. Depths was particularly curious!

Soon time for Those Who Kill tonight 🙂

Watching The Hunter: Il Cacciatore on All4. It’s a drama based on a true story about a Mafia prosecutor in Sicily. It’s a bit like Monteblano on steroids, and with more violence.

Walter presents : Rocco Schiavone Ice Cold Murders. It’s on More 4 on Fridays at 9pm.

Disgraced Rome cop sent to the Italian equivalent of Coventry …The Aosta Valley.

Stunning scenery, funny in parts with interesting characters. If you do watch it, the woman he is sometimes with in his apartment is his dead wife.

There’s a new Walter Presents series starting 11.00pm tonight called Time is a Killer set in Corsica which looks interesting.

Anyone watching “Innocent” on ITV? Finding the sound quality poor and struggling to follow, may need to engage subtitles.

Welsh Noir: new series called Yr Amgueddfa (The Museum) on S4C. Whilst there’s no brooding landscapes yet it is, um, interesting. Available as a boxset.

Welsh Noir: new series called Yr Amgueddfa (The Museum) on S4C. Whilst there’s no brooding landscapes yet it is, um, interesting. Available as a boxset.

Well well, this is certainly different, a clever idea and it’s rather good too. Still no brooding landscapes but there is a period house that’s most definitely intriguing.

Just started Mare of Easttown.
Sort of Scandi noir meets Happy Valley in mid west America Hicksville. Bloody depressing!