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The Accident (2019)
Shallow
It could have been a brilliant story in which the complexity of guild, blame, shame, responsibilities, good, bad, truth, loyalty and so on and so forth was explored in various aspects.
It turned out to be a superficial story with pale characters. An sexy rich lady with a toy boy, an oversexed teenager with daddy issues and an ordinary, but honest, hairdresser who stood and stayed by her husband despite.... Who knows, it wasn't explored.
What remains is a caricature of rich against poor, have against have-nots of have-less. All blown up, literally, against a massive and over the top accident. Pity.
Vikings (2013)
Promising start, but hopelessly lost in actual history
The series have a promising start by telling the saga of Ragnar Lothbrok. The first two series are okay in that respect. After that the series loses all credibility, especially for a history channel production, by the random appearance of historical characters that simply can't have been together in reality.
Somewhere in serie 4 there is an episode with:
King Ecgberht born 771, died 839
Rollo Duke of Normandy born 860, died 930
Ælla (or Ælle or Aelle) date of birth unknown, died 867
Harald I Fairhair born around 850, died 932
Alfred the Great born 847, died 899
Ecgberht sends his grandson Alfred on a pilgrimage to Rome. Impossible since Alfred was born after Ecgberht has died.
It is highly likely that King Aella and King Ecgberht never met at all.
The saga tells that Ragnar was killed by King Aella, sometime around 860. King Harald Fairhair, the first king of Norway, was around 10 years of age at that time.
There are too many of those historical hiccups in the series as a whole. It is okayish entertainment at best.
Innan vi dör (2017)
Sometimes one season is enough
This is one of those occasions. Season 2 is one large plot-hole. It has too many stupidities and too little really surprising twists. Disappointing sequal to a very exiting first season