Wallanderish BBC1 9pm

Wallander BBC 1 9pm. Yeh, I know. This isn’t the real Wallander. The BBC 4 Wallander that looked like an ex-football player, all jowly and gone to seed, with a bit of a drink problem, a bit of a women problem, a bit of a life problem. But on the bright side he did have a dog Jussy and some nice Scandinavian scenery. Kenneth Brannagh has a dog named Jussy and he has the nice Scandinavian scenery. There’s also lots of international production companies involved and Henning Mankell’s text is in there somewhere. The first Kenneth Brannagh Wallander two weeks ago about an apparent suicide on a ferry wasn’t bad. In fact one scene were the bad guy wallops a female detective with a sledgehammer in the face whilst Wallander looks on was great. Last weeks based mainly in Riga was more Brannagh than Wallander. It wasn’t his fault, but I’m still blaming him. So going into the last series its Wallander 1-1 Brannagh. This is the decider. Either it’s total crap, or it could be a result. I predict a Brannagh.