Lyckoviken

Have we officially hit rock bottom now? Author Camilla Läckberg has created a weird mix between an 80's soap-opera and your ordinary murder mystery with dialogue and acting that's everything but natural and up to date. Only for those out there who always wanted to see singer Martin Stenmarck as a hunky plumber.

This show is highly entertaining but only because there's just enough space between the scenes to ad-lib each episode. Bad actors delivering non believable characters. And the music is so out of place it just adds to the whole "what-the-hell-am-I-watching". Can how ever be used as a drinking game if you have a bit imagination.

But the acting is by far the worst of her mysteries put on air. Others who liken it to a prime-time soap opera with a murder thrown in for good measure have hit it spot on.

To view a better representation of Läckberg's genre-and Scandi Noir in general-I recommend watching the 2012-2013 television series, Fjällbackamord. Real detective work-and a plus: real acting in this series is what is missing from the Lyckoviken attempt.

That being said, if you are a Scandophile, as I am, then watching the show for the background and nuances of the Swedish language, would not make it a total waste of time! (Back-handed compliment, I realize...)

... started watching thinking this was going to be one of the many worthwhile Scandinavian-crime-dramas have come across recently ... turns out more-clumsy-soap-opera than anything else ... couldn't get far in at all ... had to quit ... a first for Swedish-TV-dramas.

Some of the actors are good and it did have potential...

But when you produce and write a series please make it believable. Policethat are too young to be where they are, storielines that simply are pathetic, and stuff happening that does not make any sence what so ever. Failure in script with what's actually happening in many scenes. It's actually quite embarrassing and painful to watch.

Yes it's a tv-series and not reality of course, but it's a tv series about life, crime and people.

Camilla Läckberg knows better but she totally lost her magic since she must have given green light on all the episode scripts. Swedish television can be so much better then this. Do not waste your time, better off to be cancelled.