It was only a matter of time before the Americans got in on the Nordic Noir scene properly instead of remakes and this is the perfect vehicle for so doing. It stars the rather good Dominic Monaghan as Tommy Conley a New York cop with a case he has tracked to Stockholm – that of a serial killer, so he believes. Once there he is teamed up with disgruntled cop Mikael Englund played by the brilliant Michael Nyqvist. It is not a marriage made in heaven but fate will draw them into a bond of sorts.Then the bodies start turning up and things go from interesting to downright intriguing in a very short period of time. It soon appears to everyone that there is more to this than any of them had envisaged. Add to this the lives of the main players with everyone having a flawed character and the baggage of the past hanging round their necks and influencing their decisions now and you get a rather addictive programme.This I feel is an excellent series and I dare say we will get season 2 anytime soon which is fine by me. It is in English and Swedish for the most part and the translations are all rather good too. If you like your box sets to be compulsive, convincing and inventive then this is something you should check out.

Like most of the Users reviewing The 100 code, I too have not much to offer in kindness as a review.Dominic Monaghan is pure awful - his accent & character - but is that down to the writers trying casting him as a male equivalent of Saga?Then there's the plot - totally transparent & narratives that so obviously borrow from other type programs like Hannibal (the murderer calling it in to the resident psycho Hellstrom), The Bridge & The Killing. Not to mention the idiot sidekick dicks story arc - possibly to prove that not all Swedes have a stick up their arse 24/7 - more cheese?Michael Nyqvist totally carries this show & as another reviewer pointed out whenever Monaghan opens his mouth - its dreadful - you really do wanna switch off!! As for Conley (Clownly) character's Paddywhackery - ugh, " Ma Da was from Gawlwaay - Jaysus - a fisherman" - never has any actor been so bad @ being Oirish since Tom " Is It You Shannon? " Cruise in Far & Away or as we call it in Ireland - Feck Off & Don't Come Back!!So I give 2 star rating - for Michael Nyqvist & the beautiful Swedish landscape.....Approach @ your own peril!!!

The trailers, the story and the cast caught my attention at first. Halfway through the first episode my expectations were however down to zero. I forced myself through another couple of episodes, trying to persuade myself that it just had to get better. It didn't. It just got even worse.It's just so full of clichés, it's so predictable and there's nothing new. No thinking outside the box and the characters totally lack… well, character! They're exactly the same stereotypes we've seen over and over again in numerous low-budget TV-shows and movies. The last, and biggest, nail in the coffin is however the absolutely terrible acting.

What a refreshing plot on the serial killer theme! Great actors and a fantastic setting in beautiful Stockholm. It is absolutely recommendable to spend some leisure time with this show!! Now just hoping for a second season ❤️👯🔫📺It ends with a hang liner introducing the major player LH in a city far from Sweden ( the city contains buildings like Crystler building and Empire hint hint).The layers of killers is a new and interesting theme. The mix between sexual and non- sexual drives of the different killers, a sufficient insight into the private lives of the involved police officers and the suspense level is excellent.