Wallander BBC 4 iPlayer ‘Missing’.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rwm3r

I never miss the Champions League Final. I never miss Wallander. When the whistle blew I didn’t know what to do. I decided to be a man and get drunk and boo the telly and watch the fitba. Later, in recrimination at missing the Wallander episode of ‘Missing’ I watched it on catch-up. I’m at that age now when I can say I love Wallander. He’s the kind of detective that gets drunk and leaves his gun in the pub. Sure he was suspended for it. During his absence his superior officer warned him Martinson has been promoted to his co-equal, but Wallander would still be lead detective. If your child goes missing you don’t want a bureaucrat. You want Wallander.  He’s got baggage. Ten years previously he falsely accused a young mother of kidnapping her daughter. The girl was never found and the case haunts Wallander. This is a chance to make amends. Only Martinson and a specialist they’ve brought in to oversee the case think the mother of the current missing girl isn’t being pressurised enough. When the girl’s mother ends up dead, with her girl’s mobile phone ringing in her pocket she is no longer a suspect. Wallander asks the mother he’s wronged for her help with the case, even though she’s already attacked a paedo and told Wallander she wanted to stab him. Cue her buying a large hunting knife. The denouement is superb. Did I tell you I love Wallander.

Comments

I lose track of all the Wallanders. This is the new series with the original Wallander? Not the Kenneth Brannagh I'm guessing.

 

 

yep, Terrence, there is a Wallander industry. I like all of them (well apart from Kenneth, obviously), but this is the orginal and best.

 

I have read one or two of the Wallanders. Well written and the man is believable. Sweden as a bloodbath nation hmm I suppose there's a few real unsolved corpses though Mexico, Syria,the Ukraine and much of Africa have many more            Elsie