Hvide Sande

This series is obviously made to promote Hvide Sande a coastal town with lots of german tourists. That is why Carsten Bjørnlund portrays a german policeman and there is a lot of german dialogues as well.

This is not a typical dark underplayed crime/drama series that we are used to see from the nordic countries. In fact this is the opposite.

The story is not very interesting and not convincing, but the acting is pretty good and the chemistry between the mainactors are good as well.

For me there is to much product placement and a weak story in this series.

After watching the first two episodes of this new danish Tv2 serie i'm intrigued enough to see more. It feels like a slightly better and upgraded version of the recent danish tv serie 'Sommerdahl'

Two brought together cops man/woman goes undercover in Hvide Sande a danish coastal town were a german surfer was murdered the year before, and the case is still unsolved.

They now have to operate in a town where everyone is suspicious and no one talks.

Love the german/danish collaberation and the always typical danish local humor.

Carsten Bjørnlunds acting is good.

Check it out.

Last decade or so has seen the rise of Scandinavian series where events occur in a smaller area or community, (e.g. Morden i Sandhamn, Sommerdahl) where beautiful local landscape and dense human contacts have a different approach than in cities or international communication, plus enabling less known actors to star.

Hvide Sande is another example of this, where the beauty of Jutland West Coast is revealed and the solving of the crime itself is not the primary reason for the Series. The plot is yet not too smooth, with several cliches, and I can´t say that the leading performers provided wow-performances (at times, it was funnier to watch the dog... :)) But as the motives of the crime itself and the round-up were interesting and I did not guess the wrongdoer, I can easily rate it with 7 points.

PS Such series are apparently meant to boost tourism - not a single rainy day in the Series (as in Sommerdahl)) but those who have lived-visited Denmark, even in summer, know that it is a big exception :)

This series required one to leave one's brain at the entrance. Fully awake, this would be impossible to watch as it has so many plot holes, coincidences, fortuitous events, impossibilities.

Added to this was the fact that the murderer was clear from the beginning of episode five and there was very little tension left to keep one watching.

The premiss was a cliché - mismatched couple who dislike each other have to pretend to be husband and wife. Their grubbing around and interrogations of locals were enough to raise suspicions that they weren't what they seemed and they did.

I stuck with it to the bitter end but advise others to see something better if it's available.

Good acting but terrible script and appalling continuity and direction. Really poor quality story line and not up to Danish standards.