Salmander was an Oslo police officer until and unfortunate and very public incident involving his horse leads to his sacking. He is told that he must do his three months' notice period in the coastal town of Hellfjord; a strange settlement in the Arctic north. Here he meets some strange locals; Kobba, his deputy who has a Finnish mail-order bride; 'Auntie' Kose, his landlady and Joanne, the local journalist who is the closest thing to a normal person there. He isn't there long before there is a murder; his investigation takes him undercover in prison before discovering a heroin smuggling operation, exposing the true nature of the local 'sea serpent' before finally facing Bosse Nova, the Swedish head of the smugglers.
If you are the sort of person who is offended by the sight of somebody trying to shoot a horse, beating it with a tuba till he is splattered with blood then reversing a car over it then this probably won't be the series for you! If you survive this opening scene you will probably really enjoy this surreal over-the-top comedy. The humour is fairly silly and often if rather poor taste but it had me laughing out loud at the bizarreness of it all. The characters are great; Zahid Ali does a fine job as Salander and Ingrid Bolsø Berdal is likable as Joanne however it is Stig Frode Henriksen who steals every scene he is in as Kobba; he is hilarious! Overall I'd definitely recommend this to anybody who wants a good laugh and isn't easily offended.
These comments are based on watching the series in Norwegian with English subtitles.
If you are the sort of person who is offended by the sight of somebody trying to shoot a horse, beating it with a tuba till he is splattered with blood then reversing a car over it then this probably won't be the series for you! If you survive this opening scene you will probably really enjoy this surreal over-the-top comedy. The humour is fairly silly and often if rather poor taste but it had me laughing out loud at the bizarreness of it all. The characters are great; Zahid Ali does a fine job as Salander and Ingrid Bolsø Berdal is likable as Joanne however it is Stig Frode Henriksen who steals every scene he is in as Kobba; he is hilarious! Overall I'd definitely recommend this to anybody who wants a good laugh and isn't easily offended.
These comments are based on watching the series in Norwegian with English subtitles.