Kommissarie Winter

OK, so this show is over a decade old, but new to the big streaming world obsessed with gruesome crime and the weary detectives who solve them. The series is based on one of the best, seminal Scandi-crime series of novels by Ake Edwards. The books are full of a wonderful cast of oddball cops and elliptical plots, great dialogue. Which has been entirely left out of this show. Lead character Winters is unrecognizeable, now an MHz standard-issue cop, scruffy, haunted, all wrinkled linen. Could be filmed anywhere, no sense of Sweden as locale. Read the books, watch this series for the comfort meal that most of MHz is, wall to wall copycat crime shows.

Ever since, I had watched Rolf Lasgaard's Wallander and Krister Henriksson's Wallander, I became addicted to Nordic Noir series and Kommissaire Winter was a serie that I always wanted to watch because I had read the novels. Magnus Krepper is really a good actor and I really liked how he played Erik Winter. Nevertheless I can tell you that Kommissaire Winter is not better than both of the Wallander series. This is not related to Krepper but it is related to the directors of these series. I wish they could spend less time on some unneccessary dialogues. Instead they made the endings of each story very short and it makes you feel like something is off. Nevertheless I still give this series a 7 point because of Magnus Krepper !

I looked up info and reviews on this series and found comments that it was too "unoriginal" to go on past Season 1. That's nonsense, this was an extremely well-acted and directed crime/detective series. The cinematography was superior. The stories were very gripping and well-written. The crime mysteries were classically intriguing. The main character/detective was as good as any you've seen. Someone really screwed up not to continue this!

Enjoyable murder mysteries in the ScandiNoir tradition with no melodrama or overacting. The personal life of Inspector Winter is normal, without some of the contrived problems sometimes conjured up in many shows, to supposedly make the main protagonist's life appear more interesting - they usually don't.

Only one series of four movie-length features was made. A second series would have been welcome. The capable actress Amanda Ooms plays Winter's wife, and sadly she is underused in this series, as she has been in others during her long career.

2-part episode stories well developed and acted with likable characters. overall high quality production. the only negative is that sometimes it is easy to figure out by second episode you might have a clue what will happen next but it still is very watchable with melancholic atmosphere. Stories deal with acts done in the past and a way of dealing with the pain, reciprocating.