Hassel

I am a big fan of Nordic series!! America eat your heart out! ;) Hassel is not one of the great ones, but still very interesting and exciting. The worst .. the unnecesary, annoying and ridiculous fights during the relationships of some people (don't want to spoil it) and some lose ends. The music is great! And the rating is too low in my opinion.

I have nothing more to say than it's awful and don't watch it. .

Not sure what the others who related this 1 star....you know not a lot of bad shows really deserved one star...so when someone rated something one star, you want to question their ability to know what is good or bad. This how does not have lots of useless and fake actions like Rambo or movies by someone like Steven Segal, but just something realistic and good story and good acting...no flashy, high level of special movie effect...

Just a good plot, good acting, and good interesting story to follow from beginning to end...that is all I can ask for.

As I have not read any Olav Svedelid´s books and see perhaps a couple of Hassel films, I do not have any special opinion or though how a series could or should be. But based on others works where Ola Rapace participated, e.g. Tusenbröder, Farang, I have noticed that he likes to dominate, often through intensive mindtwisting and violence - sometimes groundedly, but at times not, which is clearly visible in the series in question as well. So the logic of event would tarnish or create blah!/wtf! feelings (bearing in mind that it is Sweden, not a Latin-American or post-Socialist country where law is usually bendable), and the pseudo-political dimension becoming evident in last episodes is not too convincing.

On the other hand, this series is more UK- or US-like than most of Swedish ones, so the audience accustomed to them could "digest" it more easily and watch it less reluctantly than e.g. Beck or Wallander. But for me, it is not a series I would be definitely waiting for a sequel.

I watched this only because Nicke Andersson made the music. The music is great and therefore it gets a higher rating.