I have recently watched the third season of the Swedish-Danish crime drama series The Bridge, which was released in 2015. I can not say that it was a sublime one neither that it was a bad one, the last mainly because of the fast turns in the unrolling of the plot, the many entertaining story lines and the entailing suspense.
But I must emphasize that I found the story at times too unrealistic, especially at the end of the series during episodes 7, 8 and 9. It's quite difficult to imagine that the serial killer did not have an accomplice. If he did all the preparatory work by himself, he then had to be a very technically skilled and probably rather experienced person and I find that hard to believe of a young art museum employee who particularly knows his job subjects in theory. Not even speaking of an overloaded time-schedule, the act of self-torture and as a consequence his calculated capacity for fainting out somewhat later pretty much exactly in front of the accidental passer-by.
Artificial
Artificial
The scenarists have been very inventive in creating this art murder plot. It chased away the boredom for sure, but to me art can pretty fast result in artificial. Besides there are way too many deaths in much too short time to keep this story credible.
Sofia Helin as detective Saga Norén and Dag Malmberg as Police Commissioner Hans Petterson © Carolina Romare / SVT
Also the connection between the culprit and the Afghan veteran is not sufficiently explained in my opinion. Did they have the same father or not? The truth about this former soldier's origin has been neglected in the finale and remains hazy as such which is a shortcoming as he was a critical figure for the murder mystery to be revealed.
"Bron III lacked the realism you find in the Swedish Wallander TV series, not necessarily the slowness"
All in all I did have a good time with Bron III but the whole lacked the realism you find in the Swedish Wallander TV series, not necessarily the slowness.
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• Bron | Broen 3 (TV series, 2015, Sweden-Denmark), 10 episodes
☆ Created by Hans Rosenfeldt. Written by Hans Rosenfeldt and Camilla Ahlgren
☆ Starring Sofia Helin and Kim Bodnia
☆ Production companies are Filmlance International for Sweden and Nimbus Film for Denmark
☆ When season two premiered in the UK, it got the highest number of viewers for an international TV series in the history of BBC4
07.09.2016
