Wednesday, June 05, 2013

Watching the detectives

We've been watching a lot of Scandinavian police procedurals lately...

5 comments:

Pat said...

My favourite was the strange blonde police woman verging on autism. When told she should lighten up and converse with her colleagues she entered the station and informed them that 'today I started my period.'

Kevin Musgrove said...

;)

They all seem to verge on autism, it's quite odd how distant they all are with themselves.

Gadjo Dilo said...

Who are these people? Anyway, I'd always assumed that they didn't have crime in Scandinavia....

Kevin Musgrove said...

Gritty Scandinavian detective series are all the rage on our tellies at the moment. They're really good but unlike most subtitled programmes where you can start to pick out key phrases in the original language all you ever hear is a low rolling thunder punctuated by the occasional word in English. It comes as a relief when somebody speaks in Russian or Estonian.

Gadjo Dilo said...

Hmm, interesting. If they're in Danish then you'll never be able to pick out any words at all; in Swedish one might hope to recognise 'ombudsman' or 'IKEA'. How 'gritty' does it get in downtown Oslo?