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Just binge watched the entire series because it IS that addictive.

Dominic Monaghan does a pretty good impersonation of a haunted Irish/New York cop who buddies with Sweden's Michael Nyqvist in a very compelling, if somewhat typical, Nordic serial killer hunt.

I'm a sucker for the genre, I read every thing I can get my hands on and this series is far from disappointing. Surprisingly, to me at least, I have never heard of the author who's novels this series is based on.

The gimmick of pulling a NYPD detective into the mix gives the producers the leeway to have a lot of the dialogue in English making the series far more accessible to the linguistically challenged among us viewers.

It has all the tropes we fans of the genre love. Plenty of action, developed character arcs and good old detection.

Highly recommended.

Do not read too much reviews before seeing this series. overlook the bad ratings and haters. a mix of American /Scandinavian style that work well . watch 2 episodes to see if you like. only one season, maybe it make it the more special and make the last episode much more profound. RIP dear Michael Nyqvist. what a charismatic actor he was.

It was only a matter of time before the Americans got in on the Nordic Noir scene properly instead of remakes and this is the perfect vehicle for so doing. It stars the rather good Dominic Monaghan as Tommy Conley a New York cop with a case he has tracked to Stockholm – that of a serial killer, so he believes. Once there he is teamed up with disgruntled cop Mikael Englund played by the brilliant Michael Nyqvist. It is not a marriage made in heaven but fate will draw them into a bond of sorts.

Then the bodies start turning up and things go from interesting to downright intriguing in a very short period of time. It soon appears to everyone that there is more to this than any of them had envisaged. Add to this the lives of the main players with everyone having a flawed character and the baggage of the past hanging round their necks and influencing their decisions now and you get a rather addictive programme.

This I feel is an excellent series and I dare say we will get season 2 anytime soon which is fine by me. It is in English and Swedish for the most part and the translations are all rather good too. If you like your box sets to be compulsive, convincing and inventive then this is something you should check out.

The first half hour of the first episode was just a succession of clichés and I was about to turn it off then something happened and it started to get better. By the end of the second episode I was beginning to enjoy it and by the end of the third I was waiting for the next episode or should I say I am waiting for the forth because here in France it all started last night.

I love seeing Stockholm and the countryside a nice change!! So I do recommend this series for anyone who enjoys horrible people killing in horrific ways.

As a jogger it makes you think when you get ready to go out in the morning!

I really like this series. I think the writing is very good, the plot so far has been excellent and the acting is good. Yes there are flaws, like I said, and that really centres around the accent of Dominic Monaghan as Tommy Conley. It really is a very bad American accent. I am not sure why he couldn't have just been British - would it have really made a difference and it would have been so less painful. I have to say, however, that the acting and plot has been so good that I have not been hung up on his accent as much as I thought I would have been when I watched the first episode.

The murders are original and you feel for the actors. This is not a who-done-it series (although they keep you guessing as to who the mastermind LH is). You know who's done it straight away but the plot is interesting, fast paced and does keep you guessing.

I like Michael Nyqvist as Mikael Eklund. His acting is excellent as always. The other characters are good, although the daughter clearly needs the sense knocking into her.

I enjoy the mix of English and Swedish and the drab setting of Sweden (not that Sweden is drab, but they portray it that way) makes it more believable.

This is not a shocking series but is generally a very good watch and I recommend it to everyone, especially those that like the Bridge / the Tunnel, Wallander and the like.