Wallander
Wallander Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | E10 | E11 | E12 | E13 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 6.2 | 6.1 | 5.7 | 6.2 | 6.5 | 5.8 | 7.1 | 5.9 | 6.0 | 6.0 | 6.2 | 6.1 | 6.2 | 6.9 | |
| S2 | 6.2 | 6.4 | 6.2 | 6.1 | 6.3 | 6.2 | 5.9 | 6.2 | 6.6 | 5.9 | 6.0 | 5.9 | 6.5 | 6.2 | |
| S3 | 6.2 | 6.1 | 6.6 | 5.9 | 6.2 | 6.1 | 6.6 |
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About
"A detective's breakdown filmed as landscape poetry"
Kenneth Branagh plays Kurt Wallander, a haunted Swedish police detective in the small town of Ystad, working murders that unsettle his already fragile sense of order. Adapted from Henning Mankell's novels, the show trades procedural puzzle-solving for mood: long silences, washed-out Scandinavian light, and a lead character quietly falling apart under the weight of his job, his father's illness, and his own isolation. It's slow, deliberate, and often bleak, but Branagh's performance and the aching sense of place make it hypnotic rather than dull for the right viewer.
Branagh's quietly devastating performance as a detective unraveling under the weight of his own empathy.
you want brisk plotting rather than slow, melancholic character study.
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