Sommerdahl Murders

Not very exciting, and you can easily do other stuff while having this on in the back (meaning you don't miss much if you look down a few times during the episode). It's also very predictable.

The mystery and investigation portions are entertaining. However, the soapy marriage squabbles drag the whole thing down.

I'm not sure why so many people are hating on this show. I really enjoy watching it a lot. I have just started season five and I always get happy when a new season comes out. I love how every two episodes is a different story, but there is also some backstory that continues across the seasons. The love triangle in the first season or so can be a little irritating, because it doesn't feel like it really makes sense, but the show continues on past that and there is much more to the show than their relationship. The murder mysteries are always interesting, not too gory, and not too intense. I find it a very enjoyable show, and I hope they continue making it.

I really wanted to get hooked on this as I love Danish TV but this is pushing the limits. It has real potential but to emphasise so much on the breakdown of the marriage of the lead character has turned it in to a soap opera. Half the time you forget they are actually supposed to be out solving murders. It doesn't help that Dan Sommerdahl and his wife Marianne are not exactly likeable, you end up not really caring what happens to the relationship. The saving grace is André Babikian, he give his usual good performance.

The locations are beautiful right by the sea and the houses the main characters live in look like upper middle-class homes. Everything is just perfect except for the murders and the breakdown of a marriage.

The plots are pretty mundane. I guessed the motivations and murderers in 2 of the 4 plots and I'm pretty useless at whodunnits - I'd rather get a surprise at the end when we find out who the miscreant is. Running through everything is the marriage breakdown. I really can't understand why it was focused on so heavily. If it had impinged on the investigations and had led to someone getting away with another murder or crime, this would have been an acceptable use of the time spent on this theme. But it didn't. It just made the series frothier and more superficial than it needed to have been. It didn't help that the eponymous detective was so unlikable - stalking. telling his daughter tales, being nasty and unprofessional.

As usual, I watched till the end. I didn't hate it but there are far better things to have seen, I think. It was just a nicely numbing few episodes of escapism.