Seizure

A story of two police detectives who want to find out how four young men died andthe fifth disappeared. The two police detectives are both with deep personal and family problems, which help explain their motivation to be detectives. While the crime in question is being slowly investigated, a serious of bizarre events infuses this crime drama with an atmosphere that helps tell more about detectives, making their personalities deeply carved and believable. Supporting characters of Max's wife (portrayed by Selome Emmetu) and Sander's brother (portrayed by Marius Kolbenstvedt) are keeping the story glued to bleak reality of the lost opportunities and bitter losses in life. While the pace of drama development is a bit slow, it allows viewer to think of motives of all characters. Photography could have been somewhat better, but some special effects are above the standard. With all the differences in story and style, Besatt can be described as the Nordic version of Twin Peaks - but without those humorous episodes.

Besatt started interesting and promising, but then the dreams and flashbacks began to add confusion (some remained totally unclear), and the course of events and construction of scenes became too far-fetched. Well, Oslo is not among the biggest city in the world, but the intertwining of past and present was a bit too much within a small group of people, and several supporting characters did not provide additional value to the Series. So, suddenly the final episode had to finalise stuff not properly dealt with before, becoming a hasty round-up of otherwise protracted scenes. The main cast, the 2 (Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Anders Danielsen Lie), are well performed, not talkative and pensive as Norwegians tend to be,.. But the best performance is apparently by Marius Kolbenstvedt, although his character had too little significance for the whole narration. So, Besatt is not a flop, but rather mediocre, as Norway has produced many really interesting and versatile series this century. It is not a must to see.

Binged it over 3 nights ... and left completely confused. The last episode looked like they took 50 scenes, chucked them up in the air and then edited them together randomly. It was just bizarre. Ok, as we got through the episodes there was some surreal stuff going on, but I thought it would come together and be explained. Sadly, I was wrong. The car crash ??? The eels ?? The bodies in the pool ??

Well acted, very natural and realistic. Well done!

Anders Baasmo saves this series, the rest of cast is unskilled... Anders Danielsen Lie did a great job in ""22 July", but his carachter in this series is portayd very similar and that is just wrong.. Police methods have not been checked by the scriptwriters. specially in episode 4 its really bad.. And all the pc stuff they put in to this didnt help the show I wanted to turn this off many times, but had to finish it.