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     Thomasb (Thomasb) Username: Thomasb Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.25.141.120 |
I gather FORBRYDELSEN has been quite a hit on your side of Grand Pond. When reconfigured as THE KILLING over here, it hasn't done so well, as I discuss here: http://tbdeluxe.blogspot.com/2012/06/thoughts-on-two-killings.html . . . along with David Corbett's new story collection "Killing Yourself to Survive." Also, the piece on Nabokov's "Pnin" received an honorable recognition at the Red Room website:http://redroom.com/member/red-room-well-red/blog/lesser-known-books-by-famous-au thors. Thanks, everyone as always! Hope you're having the same bright day I am, wherever you are. Cheers, Thomas | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.43.241.164 |
Thomas - I agree. Dreary, one-note stuff. I'm going to compare it with Walking Dead, which neglected humour to its cost til recently, becoming totally transformed and genuinely watchable again when it finally did add it into the pallette. I actually stopped watching The Killing, even the Dansih version. It just feels like not full life. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.148 |
Reminds me of CRACKER, which I hated. As you say, that kind of designer misery is an affectation very far from real life. | ||
| Thomasb (Thomasb) Username: Thomasb Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.25.141.120 |
Thanks, guys. Proto: I liked your term "designer misery." The Scandinavian mystery series seem pretentious in their gloominess, as though they all OD'd on Ingmar Bergman (without fully understanding him). The one I do like though is "Varg Veum." |