And as for Louise, we didn’t really get to know her at all, which was a shame because Natalie Madueño is a fine actress. You can’t just say that Jan was an angry man because his marriage was failing – it wasn’t enough. I felt that in DTWK the main characters were just interesting, nuanced or particularly likeable.
Series like The Bridge – that also featured an investigative pairing – take care to make us fall in love with the main characters, warts and all, and give them plenty of depth and back story. That will be for another day, but in terms of this final episode I thought that they did a good job in tying up loose ends and supplying a satisfying conclusion.īut my problems with this series remained. Perhaps they’re setting us up for another series. It was one of those comments that obviously meant something significant, and the type of comment that made you think: hold on, have I missed something here?
And she asked Louise whether she wanted to hear all about him. The showdown finished as expected (big, butch Jan saving the say, although, it has to be said he was pretty rough physically on Stine) and Stine finally took revenge on Mikkel (who also admitted that he was the one who had turned her former fiancé against her).īut what was interesting was the very closing shot: Stine explaining to Louise in a prison interview that Maja – her ex-roommate at boarding school who we saw in flashback at the start of episode eight – had a brother. (Special shout out to the police in these episodes who allowed Stine to escape and then weren’t concentrating enough while guarding the summer house, which meant a bullet for them both.) Stine took out Kjeldsen because she just didn’t need him anymore, and took poor Emma to her family’s summer house for a final showdown. Both extremely plausible, but together? Perhaps the family issues sparked something inside her, and then the fiancé snub lit the flame.Įpisode eight continued but more in a cat-and-mouse chase game. So we had a couple of things going on here: Stine took revenge on women in the most diabolical manner because she had been snubbed by a fiancé and yet at the root of her sadist psychopathy was rejection and abuse by her family. She felt slighted, unloved and an outcast. Why? They didn’t believe her when she made the accusation of rape against Mikkel and chose to ignore it and ignore her.
It’s safe to say that Stine did not like her mother at all. That of Stine being taken by her mother to boarding school, and that of Stine bashing her over the head with a tennis racquet. After her attack, she smiled slyly.īut the question remained: why did Kjeldsen – likely to be goaded by Stine – attack Mikkel? The truth about the accusation against him finally came out, but he denied it.ĭTWK always likes to end an episode on a twist, and so it did at the end of episode seven: Stine somehow manage to escape (a twist too far perhaps) and made her way to her family to finally play out the end game.Įpisode eight began with a flashback. Stine had maintained that she had only met Kjeldsen three years ago.Īnd then an aggressive repost from Stine towards Louise who was trying to get under her skin. It was revealed that Mikkel had been beaten up when he was a teen, and, after being shown a photo of Kjeldsen when he was younger Mikkel identified him as the assailant. Next, they interviewed her parents and her brother, Mikkel. He, they knew, was Erika Bern’s fiancé.Ī motive for her murder 10 years ago, especially when you think about her modus operandi: chopping off the wedding ring finger of her victims. So they went about filling in her back story, trying to find something that would lead to a chink in her armour.įirst they found out that Martin Pedersson was her ex. It was all Kjeldsen’s fault she repeated. Two and fro they went, Stine evading questions and insisting she had nothing to do with the abductions and the murders. We last saw the aforementioned being arrested by Jan and Louise, and for most of the penultimate episode, it was down to the policeman and profiler to break her down and elicit a confession and, more importantly, the location of missing Emma.
So malevolent, so full of hatred and, in Stine’s case, so brimming with sadist intent.
Bland even.Īnd yet, after the first two episodes, it picked up and introduced us to two villains the likes of which I don’t think I’ve ever seen before. It has been suffused with a particularly nasty underbelly, was gratuitous at times and the two main characters were not inspiring.