Elven - La Rivière des Secrets

What makes a good crime drama? For me you need a believable storyline, sub plots that are relevant to the main story and characters you can relate to. Unfortunately with Elven it comes up short with all three of these. Which is a shame because in other aspects it has plenty going for it. The story is original the direction and photography are solid and most of all the Norwegian scenery is stunning. The cast do there best with a sub standard script, but it's the gaping holes in the storyline that really let this show down. It's by no means the worst crime drama to come from that part of the world and is still worth a watch. 6/10

Sometimes there's minor things in TV shows you can ignore. But I'm on Ep 4 of this pretty poor drama and can't forget one of the most hopeless scenes I've ever seen on TV from episode 1. One of the key pieces of the plot is the girl that goes missing... she went missing from the same room that her mother and grandmother was in. . they heard the door go, looked in the room then gave up and called the police. It's almost comical. If they looked out the window they'd see her. The lead cop actor is OK but the rest are terrible. Especially the Army woman that has achieved a high rank without even being able to lift a rifle properly. Also the child's mother.. she comes home from prostituting herself, is abusive to her Mother.. then loses the child without looking for her properly.. then suggests it's all everyone else's fault. Who writes this stuff

Few words, action, sometimes slow, like the broad open landscape, anything is possible. Following the few characters we enter a world after the Cold War, in our time, with history of countries suffered from it. Still suffering from corruption and duplicity, boarder people trying to get truth from civil and military authorities.

Well acted and with fabulous scenery, this series was spoiled by a plot that unravelled and other inconsistencies that began to mount up. The dialogue was also rather bland. I didn't bother with the final episode.

I can't understand louise_mari anger about this miniseries. Never before have seen anything about the northern lands of Norway. Also is not Bron/Broen, or Wallemberg, Millenium, etc. So sailor99, aka George from Denmark, a 10/10 is way out of the mark. Better direction and some trimming of dialogues would help, but over all, good watch for a winter night.