Der Wolf

Varg Veum was very popular in Norway and Sweden in the early 2010s. I was a Master's Degree student back then in Stockholm and many of my friends were obsessed with Nordic Noir which made me get obsessed with it as well. Varg Veum is not like Wallander, Beck, The Bridge (Bron), The Killing (Forbrydelsen), or The Millenium Franchise. He is most likely an anti-hero who usually messes up with police investigations. Trond Espen Seim is really a good actor but the real deal in this series is Bjorn Floberg some may remember him from the Insomnia movie with the legendary Stellan Skarsgard. Overall the first season is really good and fun to watch. However, the second season is not good, and there are unnecessary dialogues and plot holes. As a result, I recommend everyone to watch only the first season and not spend their time on the second season. The long and the short of it is that Varg Veum is not the best of the Nordic Noir but still is not the worst of it.

This is a low budget series from Norway. It must have been produced before Nordic Noir became popular. The episodes are not well done in that the scripts make no sense, the dialog is silly and appears improvised! The audio quality is terrible and choppy editing just compounds the lack of story continuity. Trying to watch it is impossible as it just makes no sense at all. This must be a production mainly targeted at a Scandinavian audience as it has little in the way of global appeal. The storyline is a very confusing one for each episode. I gave up after the second episode as it's really a waste of time. The characters all look like they could benefit from a good wash!