Partisan

I've got to say, this kept me on my toes to the very end even though it felt, literally, goofy at some points. As many has pointed out, many decisions were uncalled for and were hard to get your head around. Hoping for a more straight ahead second season. Usually, when you have a great idea, the script will write itself. Somehow, that didn't happen here.

You don't need to look too hard to interpret "Partisan" as a politicised drama.

There's is, for me, a pretty obvious message pushing multi-cultural-ism. That's no crime in itself but it's simplistic overtones, I feel, ignores many of the complex and often discordant issues, associated with this philosophy. Its hardly a one sided debate, by any means.

The other problem I have with this series is its associating what appears to be a cult of eugenics orientated supremacists, with green initiatives, like organic food. I personally fine it dubious given how much stress and damage, pesticide based, commercial agriculture, is causing to the environment.

Moving beyond these concerns, I came to this series primarily because I'm a big fan of actor Fares Fares, who I first encountered in film adaptations of Jussi Adler-Olsen's crime novels.

As per usual Fares hands in an excellent performance as Johnny the undercover cop. Indeed to be fair, so do other cast members. The cinematography is also, excellent.

That said, I can't find any degree of personal comfort in this series. My reservations about its tone and underlying messages, bothers me. For this reason I wont be watching any further.

5/10.

This show had so much potential but for every episode that I watched it felt that they just let it all slip through their fingers more and more.

This could have been a movie instead of a series... all this could've been wrapped up in 90minutes basically. Unnecessary dialogues, lose ends, poor character backgrounds, illogical decisions and let's not even talk about the ending.

I give it a 3 because I liked the setting nothing else.

I have edited my first review of this series, after watching all the episodes. It isn't fair to give a bad review when it turns out to actually pretty good. So, therefor the edit review. The series last 2 episodes got very exciting for me.

After seeing all episodes, I will remove my 5/10 and change it to 7/10.

I expected more from a Swedish production, but it has such a poor storyline and there is no exitement at all to enjoy. What a waste of time to watch and of such good Swedish actors.