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Wallander - Sir Ken version

(16 Posts)
moomin Mon 09-Jul-12 08:15:07

New series of Wallander commenced last night, can't compare to the "real" Wallander can it? Did anyone else find it incredibly slow? I just wanted to tell Kenneth Branagh to get on with it!

Ella46 Mon 09-Jul-12 10:00:56

First one I've seen and I thought it was depressing and gloomy and slow. Again, I couldn't always hear what they said so it was hard to follow.( I am not deaf)

I kept expecting Ken to lapse into his Harry Potter character which made me giggle.

Anagram Mon 09-Jul-12 10:46:09

Gave up half way through - turgid....
OH watched it all and I asked him whodunnit. He knew who, but not why! confused

crimson Mon 09-Jul-12 11:26:58

Trouble with Sir Ken is he's so 'akkkting'; Robbie Coltrane would've made a better Wallander [English version]. What is Robbie Coltrane doing these days? I sht edog nice, though? And is his love interest all young looking compared to the Swedish on who actually looks like 'a woman of a certain age'?

GoldenGran Mon 09-Jul-12 12:14:50

I'd have loved it if I hadn't seen the Swedish one, the real one. I quite like Sir Ken, but he shoud have a more lived in crumpled look for this. I agree you can see him acting anguished.

Ella46 Mon 09-Jul-12 13:05:20

Crikey Gg I thought he looked extremely quite crumpled and lived in!

GoldenGran Mon 09-Jul-12 13:55:13

Not as much as the Swedish one, Ken's stubble was too groomed and designer.

Anagram Mon 09-Jul-12 14:55:13

Ha, ha - yes it was, Gg, wasn't it?!

wisewoman Mon 09-Jul-12 15:04:25

I thought it was awful. He seemed like a cardboard cutout of a tortured man. Why would any woman live with him. I thought the Swedish one was like the books - this certainly wasn't. Long looks into the distance followed by swathes of countryside. Ugh!! Certainly won't watch it again.

susiecb Mon 09-Jul-12 15:12:23

sent me off to sleep nicely after 20 minutes

gracesmum Mon 09-Jul-12 15:13:13

Too many words.

Jacey Mon 09-Jul-12 17:45:56

I kept looking for the sub-titles blush ...prefer the swedish version of this story.

merlotgran Mon 09-Jul-12 19:16:18

We got fed up with trying to understand the mumbling and peering at a dark screen. sad

Grannybug Mon 09-Jul-12 22:37:23

It was painful to watch.

NannaB Tue 10-Jul-12 08:18:00

So disappointed. First series with him was excellent. Loved original Swedish version, but Sunday's was badly acted and extremely depressing to watch.

PRINTMISS Tue 10-Jul-12 08:46:45

I quite enjoyed it, but I wonder why it is so that so many programmes just recently are filmed in the dark, with rain pounding down. We like Black-out - last night on BBC1, but it is so dark, even in the daytime and indoors, The Killing is the same, lovely story, but so gloomy. I know it is supposed to be atmospheric, but does it also always have to rain, or perhaps our own weather is getting to me. (we had a whole day yesterday when the sun shone - I've marked it on the calendar).