La elegida

It amazes me sometimes what people see when they watch shows. This is a short series that crams a lot of themes in. Sense of identity, being an outsider, emotional problems, sexual identity, friendships, strained friendships, parental relationships and all that wrapped around the central mystery of what really happened when the meteor struck in a one horse town in the middle of nowhere.

I found it it to be well paced. The mystery is not taxing so its not a 10/10 series but I finished each episode wanting to watch the next immediately.

I have seen criticisms on here of the acting but for me the central characters behave and in a way that I have seen thousand times in real life when they consider themselves to be outsiders in some way. As the series progresses certain characters are revealed to have certain secrets and the way others have reacted and behaved previously becomes clearer. If someone appears emotionless, the reason becomes clear.

The series ends with some things unexplained and I hope that it means a 2nd series to expand further on what we understand from the first.

While I wouldn't say this is a must see it is certainly worth a watch.

Like many European shows like this one it's gloomy, bleak and dark. Featuring desolate dirt roads and abandoned buildings. There can't be anymore than a handful of pages of dialog in the entire series. The characters are shadows, unable to draw you in or relate to them.

Seventeen year old Emma lives in Middelbo, a town whose sole claim to fame is that it was hit by a meteorite seventeen years before. She works at the meteor museum until an incident leads to her being fired, it also leads her to question whether the 'meteorite' on show at the museum is even real. She gets involved with a group that has other theories about the nature of the incident seventeen years ago. Soon Emma's life is get distinctly strange and more than a little dangerous.

I thought this was a decent enough series; it is by no means a classic but equally it is far from terrible. It gets off to a fun start and once Emma has a good idea about the truth there is a good level of threat and some solid action Emma is a good leading character and the supporting group is solid too; if more than a little irritating at times. The self-proclaimed leader of the group is petty and childish most of the time; jealous that Emma is discovering things as soon as she joined while the others never really found anything. The cast is solid enough with Malaika Mosendane being likeable as Emma. Many questioned are answered by the end of the sixth, and currently final, episode but more are raised leaving scope for another season; if there is more I'll watch.

These comments are based on watching the series in Danish with English subtitles.

The story kept me interested, and there was intrigue. Enough that I watched the full series in a short space of time. The Sci-fi elements were really good. It was enjoyable at moments, but it was far from problem free. One of the main plot points I saw coming from the word go.

BUT I disliked how unhealthy many of the relationships between the characters were. I was hoping for a teen, let's discover ourselves whilst we uncover this mystery and get to the truth. There was so much backstabbing, and all the characters hurting each other a lot.

Also no one actually talked to each other, instead they jumped to conclusions, lied, and often did something stupid behind someone's back. With the exception of Marie, she was the only really likeable character.

Emma even did this to her Mum. Mads was actually vile. A lot of these things were often different to how the characters started out, and seemed to be there just to forward the plot.

I can honestly understand the mixed reviews to this.

Over half of this show is what I guess to be suspense build up. You get 25 cuts of someone walking, with music building up for every piece of dialogue delivered. There is no real explanation given for mostly everything going on and the characters aren't asking any.

The show also tries to focus in and spends way too much time on a love triangle thing that just does not work and adds needless sex scenes. It is like the entire story was written around a 17 year old girls sex life.