Furia

This started well with same great Norwegian scenery, but then after a couple of episodes the drama moved into urban Germany and things got pretty boring and implausible.

Irrespective of the eventual outcome of the drama, there was a lot of pretty nasty racism during the middle episodes.

The media/society/government is constantly trying to enforce an equality mindset and yet dramas like this portray the opposite.

There is something wrong somewhere.

Some reviewers have noted that the start was great and the end so long and drawn out with nothing happening.

That is part of the genius of the film! We start off with breathtaking Norwegian scenery, fumbling local cops, and begin to understand what is happening. It helps to know what happened at Utøja in Norway in 2011 in order to understand the motivation.

We cut to boooooring German landscapes, the chaos of Berlin, and dive deeply into the inner workings (or rather, dysfuncationality) of German officials. That is what makes it so believable, and scary.

The acting is great! Ine Marie Wilmann can talk with her eyes, Christian Berkel does a very believable move from arrogant minister to human back to arrogant minister. Some of the others are a bit two-dimensional, but they fit so nicely into Norwegian and German stereotypes.

Another Scandinavian Noir gem. And unfortunately, too believable. No more, don't want to spoil. See it.

Didn't feel something exciting started to happen until episode 4-5.

The story was well built and with good scenery.

As a Norwegian the chosen actors was kind of a disappointment. This is the same actors that they use in EVERY movie, plus they even changed their dialect. That made it even worse.

Beautiful norwegian scenery from the west coast of Norway, and the actors even spoke the local dialect for that area. The story takes the viewer from Norway to Germany and the original language of all locations is kept. Good actors, good story, good tension, quite a few twists and surprises, and just a few minor annoying logical questions I thought the director ought to do something about.

But all in all a great binge story that'll keep you glued to your chair.

Recommended must see serie with the end a bit rushed, but looking forward to season 2. Good acting, nice settings, story and action evenly divided over Norway and Germany. Especially with the strong main character Aesgir, it has all the potential to outperform season 1.