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Ok, yes I know this is two in a row! Just to clarify I’m not on the payroll to be some sort of BBC cheer-leader (I wish!) and I honestly don’t watch very much TV at all. I guess it’s feast or famine!

Sunday night’s Wallander was good, very good in fact. Once I got over the strange experience of listening to a perfectly English accented group of Swedish police officers I was hooked.  I’m sure they agonized over the decision of whether to try a Swedish-English accent and they clearly made the right decision, but it is a bit odd at first, just think Sean Connery’s “Russian” submariner in The Hunt for Red October!

Kenneth Branagh did a great job of capturing the brooding and troubled Kurt Wallander and some of the camera work was simply beautiful.  There is always a loss in TV or film versions of a great book, but for TV crime drama this was very impressive. Perhaps the highest praise is found in always paddle saying she enjoyed it despite the rather grisly crimes  at the heart of this first installment. I also loved the titles:

It’s on iplayer if you missed it.

Next week it’s Firewall which I read back in August – see here for my review.