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Loved S1 and S2; weird, out there, twisted, crazy, intelligent story telling in a Fargo kind of way, with characters one is emotionally drawn to, one understands or think they are freaking mad as rats and violent to boot, with dark humour - an essential ingredient.

Season 3 - hells bells and firewater, what happened! The writing is atrocious, the plot lines twist and turn, going almost nowhere. I made it to episode 5 and could go no further, I only got that far as I had hope of something, something that would make it worth watching. There was nothing, had to take a shower just to wash the filth, ridiculousness and stupidity away.

Such a wonderful cast, wasted with writing that may have come from some person in a psychiatric ward on so much medication that their brain is barely capable of functioning. Puking on television seems to be on the uptake, why, it is horrible. I understand there are moments when it happens but seriously, over the top doesn't come close in season 3.

I could go on but I have more important things to do.

Watching Season 1 of this Finnish detective series was a wonderful breath of fresh air. Intelligent and progressive characters, story lines, cinematography and script; what a pleasure.

Season 2 however is quite disappointing, the teenage daughters of two of the main detectives are involved in far too many hectic violent cases, even though they had had already been involved in traumatic violent cases in the first series. This is far too unrealistic, unlikely and unnecessary. In addition, although the two detectives move heaven and earth to save their children, the teenage daughters demonstrate no gratitude or love, only anger, and become extremely frustrating to watch. Is this a crime/police series or a teen drama. I can only wonder what happened to the intelligent and thoughtful story lines of the previous series.