Ville Virtanen as Kari Sorjonen, in the Finnish crime series “Bordertown.” Courtesy of MHz Choice
The first two seasons of the moody Finnish police procedural, “Bordertown” were excellent, featuring one of those troubled, eccentric, brilliant police detectives that have been so popular for many years, in many countries.
Here is the link to my laudatory review of Season 2 to bring you up to speed on characters and relevant backstories for this one: www.wearemoviegeeks.com/2024/04/bordertown-season-2-review/.
Unfortunately, Season 3 doesn’t quite live up to the first two. Again it’s 10 episodes, with each featured crime covered in two or three of them, and several subplots carried over from before and recurring throughout this one. Kari’s wife dies in the first, and the way he and daughter Janina deal with their grief is the stuff of which melodramas are made for the whole season. Many clashes and moody musings...
The first two seasons of the moody Finnish police procedural, “Bordertown” were excellent, featuring one of those troubled, eccentric, brilliant police detectives that have been so popular for many years, in many countries.
Here is the link to my laudatory review of Season 2 to bring you up to speed on characters and relevant backstories for this one: www.wearemoviegeeks.com/2024/04/bordertown-season-2-review/.
Unfortunately, Season 3 doesn’t quite live up to the first two. Again it’s 10 episodes, with each featured crime covered in two or three of them, and several subplots carried over from before and recurring throughout this one. Kari’s wife dies in the first, and the way he and daughter Janina deal with their grief is the stuff of which melodramas are made for the whole season. Many clashes and moody musings...
- 6/4/2024
- by Mark Glass
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Ville Virtanen
“Bordertown: Season Two” continues another solid crime drama from the Scandinavian countries. It’s set in a Finnish town near the Russian border, so the subject crimes frequently come with complications from the other side of that line. Our hero is Kari Sorjonen (Ville Virtanen), a brilliant, intriguingly quirky police detective who moved there from Helsinki, seeking relative peace, allowing more time with his wife Paulina (Matleena Kuusniemi), and teen daughter Janina (Olivia Ainali). Naturally, it doesn’t work out that way, or we’d just have a pastoral travelogue, instead of a suspenseful procedural series.
Kari has a number of hand movements that help him retain and recall memories in his vaguely autistic mind. Like many such characters, his intense focus on each new crime comes at a cost, as his family feels shunted to the side, aggravated by his inability to remain engaged in the moment...
“Bordertown: Season Two” continues another solid crime drama from the Scandinavian countries. It’s set in a Finnish town near the Russian border, so the subject crimes frequently come with complications from the other side of that line. Our hero is Kari Sorjonen (Ville Virtanen), a brilliant, intriguingly quirky police detective who moved there from Helsinki, seeking relative peace, allowing more time with his wife Paulina (Matleena Kuusniemi), and teen daughter Janina (Olivia Ainali). Naturally, it doesn’t work out that way, or we’d just have a pastoral travelogue, instead of a suspenseful procedural series.
Kari has a number of hand movements that help him retain and recall memories in his vaguely autistic mind. Like many such characters, his intense focus on each new crime comes at a cost, as his family feels shunted to the side, aggravated by his inability to remain engaged in the moment...
- 4/15/2024
- by Mark Glass
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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