staffylad Review of Sthlm Requiem

Sthlm Requiem (2018– )

A decent break from usual Scandi police dramas.. but

[7/10 · 3 January 2021]

I've watched several Scandi dramas recently and noticed a common theme amongst most of them. Lead character is female, miserable, moody, terrible mother, terrible person, hate their new partners but get closer to them in the end. I'm thinking mainly of Deadwind, The Bridge, Grey Zone, The Valhalla Murders and probably The Killing (although I only saw the US version. Also there's usually a corrupt company in the middle of the story desperately trying to build some kind of 'project'. Stockholm Requiem doesn't follow all these but it does follow one unfortunate trend.. Immigrants are wonderful innocent victims and heroes while white people are corrupt or right wing terrorists. This has an opposite affect on their agenda, all it does is poke everyone to the point which they become sick of being lectured and accused. Let's have some reality, immigrants can be good and bad just as white people can be good and bad. But let's face it, when it comes to terrorist killings the vast majority are immigrant perpetrators. Anyway, this was mostly well acted and storylines original. But it really disturbed me how the main character was willing to let her partner spend years of time, effort, money, emotion and love bringing up somebody else's child.. And her doctor encouraged her to do it by not doing a DNA test. Told you they were terrible people.