Watch Wallander Online: Faceless Killers

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Watch Wallander Online: Faceless Killers

October 4, 2010 by Vic

PBS Masterpiece Mystery! is featuring Faceless Killers, the first episode of Wallander, Season 2 online. Click here to see the video until November 2, 2010. Click here to read my review for the season.

Kenneth Branagh is Wallander

Posted in Movie review, Popular culture | Tagged Kenneth Branagh, PBS Mystery!, Wallander | 6 Comments

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on October 5, 2010 at 08:10 boscodagama

Episodes of the second Swedish Wallander series

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallander_(Swedish_TV_series)

are shown on MHZ Worldview

http://www.mhznetworks.org/mhzworldview/

Kenny B. is way too emotive, if you’ve read any of Mankell’s Wallander. And why the heck can’t the Brits say “Vallander”? Is it that hard?
on October 5, 2010 at 09:58 pjpink

I caught the last half of the last episode in series 1 and was intrigued. We wathed this episode last night. We enjoyed it, but it was too British. I did not really get a sense of Sweden. This is the only real flaw in the show.

Interestingly, the MHZ network is showing the Swedish version of Wallander at various times in Oct.
on October 5, 2010 at 10:07 boscodagama

The actor, Fredrik Gunnarson, plays the neo-nazi with the shotgun in the Branagh ver. also plays the all around good guy Svensk uniformed cop Svartmann in the Wallander we see on MHZ.

Tatort (Fredy und Max) & the Maigret MHZ shows are great, too.
on October 5, 2010 at 10:15 Vic

Thank you all for the MHZ advice. I do not get this channel, but hope others will benefit from your suggestion! As for the British accents, I found them off putting too. This would have been a perfect opportunity to showcase Swedish actors, but perhaps Branagh does not feel comfortable mimicking an accent. If the star cannot attempt a Swedish accent, then they are “stuck” using only British actors.

Vic
on October 6, 2010 at 12:14 boscodagama

BTW, Yellow Bird, Mankell’s production company, also produced The films in THE GIRL WITH DRAGON WHATEVER.. which are actually called something like *Men Who Hate Women* in Svensk.

I think he has a finger in the pie of english versions of these films..
on October 30, 2010 at 00:00 anita sands

Character of Mankell is a classroom study in fleshing out a character with dimensional bad luck or quirks. Check appropriate box to prop up a cardboard character

The MELANCHOLY DANE syndrome. He’s INTENSE. SILENT, BROODING –qualifying as VERRY Swedish, check.

Diabetic. Check

His own father weird and dysfunctional but lucky enuf to have a cottage and a housekeeper.

Divorced against his will –check.

wife remarried and quite happy –double check.
daughter alienated from Wallender. Check.

wants a beer can’t have one — check.

I tell you the right assortment of checked boxes of assorted sad histories, quirks and you can make a stone walk.