Hamilton

From a slightly slow start this show to me got better and turned out to be great. I've seen all earlier Hamilton performances, and this one I find gives a fresh and new go to the character. Really looking forward to the future shows with this actor as Hamilton. Recommend you give it more than one episode!

Just watched all 8(?) episodes and whilst I must admit that I for some strange reason wanted to see how it all ended up, I can just say what a far fetched and poor plot. Such a waste of money. Maybe the writers wanted to get Hamilton a bit more "Bourne"? Anyhow this is nothing but poor quality action. Poor plot, poor script and mostly poor acting. Nothing to do with the original books.

Lots of interesting threads in this plot. The dialogue is pretty realistic and they avoid having characters do stupid things just to move the plot along. So, very watchable. It must be impossible for the Swedish directors to hear that Rowena King's American accent is horrible. Usually the Brits handle the accents perfectly, so we understand if they trusted that she could. But, not. Nonetheless, this nitpicking aside, very entertaining.

Summary

A modern espionage thriller, with an European perspective, about the complex plot behind an attack that takes place in Stockholm, with a special agent of confused loyalties in the framework of the rivalries between different secret services and the new scenarios and modes of action direct that they must decipher and face.

Review:

An attack is carried out in Stockholm on the occasion of a speech by the Swedish Interior Minister when Agent Hamilton, a member of the military intelligence, was circulating in the area. Who were the authors of the attack? With what objectives?

The question could be posed in other terms: who does Agent Hamilton work for (in charge of the handsome Jakob Oftebro), who came from doing special training with the CIA in the United States?

There are several actors at play in this modern espionage thriller, based on the novels by Jan Guillou: the Säpo (Swedish security police), with its counterintelligence and counter-terrorism functions, the MUST (Military Intelligence and Security Service) and others outside of Sweden that should not be disclosed.

It is a complex plot to unravel about the intellectual authors of the attack, in a very current scenario that shows rivalries and overlaps between the different security and intelligence services and a scenario with cyberattacks and fake news and that of course does not exclude intrigues and bullets. This game of transitory and suspicious alliances is manifested above all in the figure of Hamilton himself, a practically impenetrable character, and his relationship with his bosses and with the Säpo detective Kristin Ek (in a magnetic interpretation of Nina Zanjani), perhaps the character most interesting of the series.

In short, a modern espionage thriller from a European perspective.

In itself, this is not a bad series: the acting was good, locations interesting and good camerawork. However - and this may be me - the last episode was a disappointment in that I cannot make any sense of the actual storyline.