Worse than season 1. Don't get me wrong. I'm still impressed that little Scandinavia was able to produce such an atmospheric, suspenseful, well-shot and expensive quality show with some no-nonsense characters but I don't like how writers approached this season. It's very repetitive: whenever the police were able to catch an evil wrongdoer and seemingly solved a case, writers came up with another mastermind, another villain, another sub-group, another prime-suspect, another awful murder, another terror attack. To me that feels pretty random and it feels as if writers just were filling plot holes with another pointless escalation or worse red herrings that feel totally unconnected in retro-perspective. Like that Claudio gigolo plot. Why was he (and Bodil's sister) in the show anyway? Only so that Saga could deduce something from his time of death? And who killed him again? Oliver? But why? I don't get it. And it doesn't really matter: breathlessly the show approaches another level of escalation before you could even think about such plot enigmas.
Plus, it's called season for a reason: the season's plot comes to an end - you can't end this episode showing us that there's a mastermind behind all of that who's still out there. That makes the whole season feel totally inconsequential. As if episode 10 ain't a finale but a gigantic cliffhanger advertising season 3.
Review by Alexander von LimbergBlockedParent2021-11-16T20:51:14Z
Worse than season 1. Don't get me wrong. I'm still impressed that little Scandinavia was able to produce such an atmospheric, suspenseful, well-shot and expensive quality show with some no-nonsense characters but I don't like how writers approached this season. It's very repetitive: whenever the police were able to catch an evil wrongdoer and seemingly solved a case, writers came up with another mastermind, another villain, another sub-group, another prime-suspect, another awful murder, another terror attack. To me that feels pretty random and it feels as if writers just were filling plot holes with another pointless escalation or worse red herrings that feel totally unconnected in retro-perspective. Like that Claudio gigolo plot. Why was he (and Bodil's sister) in the show anyway? Only so that Saga could deduce something from his time of death? And who killed him again? Oliver? But why? I don't get it. And it doesn't really matter: breathlessly the show approaches another level of escalation before you could even think about such plot enigmas.
Plus, it's called season for a reason: the season's plot comes to an end - you can't end this episode showing us that there's a mastermind behind all of that who's still out there. That makes the whole season feel totally inconsequential. As if episode 10 ain't a finale but a gigantic cliffhanger advertising season 3.