Dept. Q (2025)
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Loki — 10 months ago(May 09, 2025 11:15 AM)
British remake series of one of a Danish series of detective films (and books) that are pretty good, so hopefully this will be, too. Decent cast, so I don't see why not. Matthew Goode, Kate Dickie, Shirley Henderson, Kelly MacDonald.
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Dazed — 10 months ago(May 24, 2025 09:55 AM)
I saw the trailer yesterday and I will definitely be watching this. It kind of reminded me of Unforgotten which I loved and as you say, it's a good cast. Kate Dickie seems to be playing the same character she played in Annika

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Dazed — 10 months ago(May 26, 2025 02:22 PM)
Sorry, thought I'd replied but obviously not!
I liked it, it's quirky. For example the main character talks to camera throughout each episode, it felt a bit odd at first but I ended up enjoying it.
It's based in Scotland and is about the Marine Homicide Unit. I believe the original stories are from the radio plays "Annika Strandhed" based in Oslo. No idea why they decided to shift it to Scotland but the character maintains her Norwegian roots.
The annoying thing is that there is no news of a S3 at the moment.
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Loki — 10 months ago(May 26, 2025 03:31 PM)
No worries!

I think I can guess why they might have done it that way. The British version of Wallander was a bit weird because it still takes place in Sweden but everyone has English accents. I never watched it save for a couple of clips and that sort of put me off a bit.
Other remakes of Scandi stuff take place in whatever country's producing the remake. So it all translates well enough. -
Dazed — 10 months ago(May 26, 2025 04:53 PM)
I watched the first episode of Wallander with Kenneth Branagh and it was very, very dark. I can handle quite dark but it was too much darkness for me! And yes the setting vs the accents was also very strange

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The Real Soldier Boy — 10 months ago(May 31, 2025 05:23 PM)
Started this this morning albeit very briefly. It's rare seeing a show set in Scotland with polished production values like this - it's particularly nice seeing Edinburgh.
The Scottish accents are predictably OTT but it has Mark Bonnar (he's in every half decent Brit show eh?) so I'll definitely give it a proper go
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The Real Soldier Boy — 9 months ago(June 07, 2025 02:43 PM)
The originals is a 2013 homoerotic vampire show right?
This is more me
https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/mark-bonnar-i-can-be-bit-twt-sometimes-important-not-forget-3705040
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