Alas! Since I cannot write a review for all the British drama that I have seen (the list is far too long...), at least I can start to write one in another category.
Spoilers alert (well, all my reviews are anyway)/random trivia/personal impression (i.e. not very good in organizing my thoughts).
This show can be considered as the Nordic noir reaches its peak in an international level. Sarah Lund, her sweater, and the plane she can never catch are the talking points in season one. It was, to a degree, refreshing to see how a show of only one dead body can carry a crime drama for more than ten episodes.
I always found it interesting that the Nordic noir is not shying away from the incompetence of how parents can be, at least in those I have seen. Lund, of course, following the paradigm of a distinguished detective, has a failed marriage and a son who she loves, but was defeated in building up a successful parental relationship with. I also feel very sorry about her unsuccessful intimate relationships with male characters throughout the seasons. And I was particularly devastated when I found out how the drama ends. It is, again, demonstrate how scriptwriters can be a real arsehole in torturing the faithful audiences. They really should make another sequel (A cry from a hear-broken fan)!
Apart from detecting, another thing I enjoyed the most in this thriller is the fall of politicians. Every season has its political exploration and, undoubtedly, adding the charm to the detective story. You see the good and the bad of a politician and, most of the time, he really have the desire to do good things, even struggled with political ambition and calculation. However, as the old proverb says, 'The road to hell is paved with good intentions'. And it is proved here.
I found several surprisingly familiar faces in this political drama, which makes me more exciting than ever (also proves that how many Danish drama that I have seen these days...). In a sense that echoing Aaron Sorkin's masterpiece, 'the West Wing', the 'Borgen' talks about Danish parliamentary politics centred around Birgitte Nyborg, a female moderate politicians' rise and fall.
In the first season, we see how she struggles in becoming the first woman prime minister in a political arena, where is still dominated by conventional authoritative male figures, and the obligations between as a mother and as a head of the government. The second season focus more on her established authority and political negotiation, under the stress of a potentially disfigured family. The third season, in my opinion, begins on a very innovative and exciting ground: as she lost the last election. how she can come back to Danish politics when everything else is changed? The creators of the show are courageous in formulating a political drama based onthe opposition's perspective, rather than dragging the show around the existed framework. I am very looking forward to see how the whole show is going to develop and what season finale is pictured by the scriptwriters. But at the same time, I am a bit worry in reading the signs that plotted so far...fingers cross!
Instead of emotional violence, this show provides an somehow distasteful exemplification of the violation against bodies. Unlike Bryan Fuller's creative display of murder as art in 'Hannibal', this show exhibits an psychopathic tendency of treating bodies as toys and can be throw away like trash once they lost their utility value.
Katrine Ries Jensen, a poor copper who practically being assaulted by the predators in every episode, and Thomas Schaeffer, a retired psychologist then criminal profiler, are collaborated in investigating serial killers. Owing to such cooperation, the show fascinatingly tackles the meaning of mental institution and the relationship between the society and the convicted psychopath. It is provocative yet requires further serious exploration.
The ending is certainly another heart-breaking, and I cannot believe the writers is doing this to the fans...AGAIN! My favourite character Magnus Bisgaard, played by the delightful Lars Mikkelsen, finally had some actions in the last scene, but still cannot made up the fact that 'I hate you, scriptwriters!'
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