Wallander

I found it by googling 'Leaving Wallander'. It is a good interview isn't it. I'd love to see him on stage.

Oh, I'm going to bed feeling annoyed now!

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/20/krister-henriksson-on-leaving-wallander

one more go!

Sorry link has not worked.

Just watched the last episode. phew!

This is a good interview with henriks.

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/20/krister-henriks

True he is the real Wallander.

Brilliant, thought I would not be able to watch it but so glad I did. Kirster is amazing.

I just watched the last few minutes. He is a brilliant actor. I loved the bit where he asked them to remember the good bits 'because he wouldn't' . For me he will always be 'the' Wallander.

I am heartbroken, my favourite Wallander of them all. The part of someone suffering from this terrible illness was played well. Just hope he is going to be in another 'Nordic Noir' series soon. He is a fantastic actor.

A very moving final episode. I will miss this Wallander, while the plotlines have been fairly rubbish I have appreciated the insights into Kurt and Linda and their relationship.

It was so very sad. I suppose he shouldn't be working still, despite the fact that he is still better than his colleagues despite his problems.

I'll probably cope by watching the old episodes I have recorded. One of the things I have really enjoyed about this last series is that I visited Ystad, where it is filmed, a couple of years ago and it is a pretty medieval town that I have loved seeing snatches of again.

Deep down I think I knew that already vegasmags.....just trying to hang onto dear old Wallander for a little longer. Think I will 'forget' to watch next week's episode and just hang on to the imagine of his face as he saw his daughter and grand-daughter through the window last night.

I too enjoyed last night's programme, which was very well done. I think there will be bleak nothingness to come, HildaW, in the remaining episode, if they remain faithful to the Wallander of fiction. Mankell said that he wanted readers to be in no doubt that he had written the last Wallander book.

Tegan, although lasts night's episode left us in no doubt (spoiler alert) that he has dementia and its having a serious impact on his life, there was the feeling of reconciliation and acceptance in the last few minutes of the episode. For me it could have been the last in the series....there was not exactly hope but there was a certain open-endedness that was stangely reassuring. I was, like petallus, transfixed by it all, could not look away for a minute and I am glad I watched it.
My concern is that there is one more episode and I worry that its going to take it all too far down the road of bleak nothingness......I am not quite decided as to whether I shall be brave or not.

I am amazed that I am getting this thoughtful about a TV programme....so much I can completely ignore...its a reflection on the quality I suppose.

I missed it last night as I was watching the football. Not sure if I can face watching it; he's such a good actor and I think it'll cripple me to see it.

I was transfixed by the recent episode. It was very sad and also frightening.

All praise to Kirster for his amazing portrayal of a wonderfully complex character going through this horribly cruel illness. The whole story is handled so well, its thought provoking, honest and desperately sad. I was sat there last night watching him sitting alone just willing his daughter and granddaughter to turn up....and they did. Somehow it made a desperately sad story bearable.....very clever writing.

I've read quite a few of Mankell's other books - and he doesn't do happy endings.

Yes. A very moving episode, with Wallander struggling to tell his daughter of his illness. Presumably this means there will be no more series, which is a shame as I really have enjoyed this last one.

Oh dear I think it is an excellent illustration of the impact of dementia. Really made me think tonight.

That's what I thought had happened at the end of the last series. Maybe I'm being pessimistic and this series will end in an optimistic way?

Yes, those are very memorable. This incarnation is by far the best in my opinion, although the others were ok. Kenneth Branagh was too tortured and the other too flippant, Henriksson gets the balance about right. I too am so sad, I wanted a happy-ever-after ending for him so much. I almost wish Mankell had left the original ending, of him scooting off to Stockholm to be with his ex-boss.

It is confusing petallus especially as they all seem to go to the same bad hairdresser! Rolf I remember as the one with the moobs, but Krister's hair has certainly had a few incarnations! He is my favourite too - I felt so-so abut Branagh, although I think the scenes he played with his father were very good.

vegasmags I don't think the actors are the same.

There is another Scandanavian one, Rolf Lassgard, who has badly dyed blonde hair and is a little on the (shall we say) heavy side.

It's quite confusing with three Wallanders on the go.

My favourite is Henriksson. Not sure about Branagh.