The Bridge/Broen/Bron 2 (the 'Saga' continues)

[Hat FM]

really looking forward to this. shame it sounds like martin isnt coming back though that might be a bit tokenistic.

[jobotic]

Can't fucking wait to see Saga again.

The plot is obviously going to be gripping but ultimately absolute fucking nonsense, again.

[BlodwynPig]

Don't want to spoiler, but it's shit/corking, Martin returns in unusual form/ martin doesn't return

[im barry bethel]

Shifting it to BBC2 feels like a harbinger of a series too many

[mothman]

It's a bit odd. Are they thinking of shitcanning BBC4 to make BBC2 relevant again? To free up a channel for Alba +1 or something.

[im barry bethel]

Friday 11th May, fucking Friday's on BBC2

[Neomod]

Friday 11th May, fucking Friday's on BBC2

Odd but I always _(get) iPlayer it so it doesn't make much difference to me.

[BlodwynPig]

As I'm ahead of the curve, there will be a prize for the poster who solves the mystery first.

[Lost Oliver]

It was his kids who killed the mum.

[mothman]

It was his kids who killed the mum.

Ooooohhhh. Like it.

It'll be interesting to see how they resolve this mystery. Because, while it's shown that he's spent a lot of time trying to solve his family's disappearance (when he's not pretending they're still alive and his imaginary dead wife isn't telling him to go shag other women and carrying out post-match post-mortems of the experience after), we don't know a lot of details. So who done it? Why kill the wife but abduct the children (hopefully to give them a much happier life)? The obvious answer is it's some acquaintance or family member or some former/current secret partner of his wife who's murdered her and taken them, maybe because they hate him or think he was a bad father or think they can give the children that happer life that he and his wife ostensibly couldn't. The problem with this solution is it depends on introducing suspects late in the game, which isn't really the done thing in mystery fiction. Scandinoir has had its share of red herrings, and TBH the way they introduced the real killer in the last series was especially hamfisted ("he's a museum curator who hears details of the crimes on TV and realises there's something about these tableaux that the police haven't recognised... AH AH AAHHH, he's the real killer and and he's realised that the PC Plods aren't clever enough to follow his trail of breadcrumbs to his father who he hates!").

[BlodwynPig]

You'll enjoy the resolution, even though the breadcrumbs are familiar.

[mothman]

Good good. Are they doing two eps a week like they did when it was on that BBC4?

[Hat FM]

is it only blodwyn that's seen the new series? had to stop reading what mothman had written as i didnt know if it was new series spoilers.

[im barry bethel]

Odd but I always _(get) iPlayer it so it doesn't make much difference to me.

Just seems odd to break with the traditional timeslot after 10 odd years

[BlodwynPig]

is it only blodwyn that's seen the new series? had to stop reading what mothman had written as i didnt know if it was new series spoilers.

ignore what he wrote, its complete bollox...OR IS IT?!!!

[mothman]

Sorry, Hat. I assure you, I'm writing solely from the perspective of series three. I've no knowledge of what happens in s4 except that the cliffhanger from s3 - that Saga's second partner (can't even remember his name) who's spent years traumatised by the disappearance of his wife and children, has learned his wife's long-dead body has been discovered but the children's weren't; initially distraught as he thought that if they were all dead they'd be together, he and Saga decide to work together to locate his kids - has yet to be resolved.

[Hat FM]

ah okay cool. thanks. I had completely forgotten how the last series ended. too many of these bloody dramas!

[surreal]

Quick bump as a reminder this starts tonight on BBC2.  I will no doubt be catching it on iPlayer over the weekend

[jobotic]

Five minutes in and I'm confused. And this is going to be really unpleasant and disturbing isn't it? Ugh.

[Neomod]

It's a shame they couldn't bring Martin back for at least a guest appearance. Just a mention he's still locked up in chokey.

Five minutes in and I'm confused. And this is going to be really unpleasant and disturbing isn't it? Ugh.

Yeah, it looks like it's the ladies turn (again) to be on the receiving end of some horrible shit. Ugh indeed.

[BlodwynPig]

It's a shame they couldn't bring Martin back for at least a guest appearance. Just a mention he's still locked up in chokey.

Yeah, it looks like it's the ladies turn (again) to be on the receiving end of some horrible shit. Ugh indeed.

Oooooh boy!

[jobotic]

Okay having read a recap of the last season I'm less confused. Not particularly excited about another season of unrelenting misery for Saga though, and I hope that domestic violence cunt doesn't last long.

[Technique]

Whenever I got to the end of the previous 3 series I was always struck by how several characters who seemed to be important to the ongoing story just disappeared, never to return. They were there, they seemed connected to the killings, but they weren't, and then they were gone.

I admonish myself as not being able to follow anything but the most simple of plots.


Various streaming sites have put up the first few episodes of the new series. And I now know they just make this shit as they go along.  This is proved by the way they resolve saga being in jail for killing her mother, and then is freed. Clearly they thought the whole killing mum thing would be a great storyline to follow when they thought it up. But then on realising that they don't know where to go with it she's out of prison, back in the police and the whole killing mum, serving in jail thing, is forgotten about with undue haste.


I know -  spoiler alert

[im barry bethel]

Killing bingo so far...

Mikael Birkkjær (husband in Borgen Strange in Killing 2) as Sabroe's new cop partner

Thomas Gabrielsson (kidnaper in Killing 3) as the dead Head of Immigration's husband

[Lost Oliver]

How can she survive that? If she's dead then fair play for doing it but if it's just for a cheap cliffhanger then that's a tad lame.

[im barry bethel]

This 1 hour episode per week scheduling is ruining it

[Neomod]

The triumphant return of Saga (very Bond and his DB5). Hmm. A bit too pat for me.

Red herring #1 - Racist usurped cop

[jobotic]

This is even more ridiculous than I remember the others being. Utterly implausible things happening and people behaving in a way that no people ever would or could. And the most upsetting murder yet.

I'll still watch to the end though.

Spoiler - so are Henrik's family in that there commune? Is that annoying cosplay one one of his daughters?

[BlodwynPig]

This is even more ridiculous than I remember the others being. Utterly implausible things happening and people behaving in a way that no people ever would or could. And the most upsetting murder yet.

I'll still watch to the end though.

Spoiler - so are Henrik's family in that there commune? Is that annoying cosplay one one of his daughters?

spoiler: wait and see

[studpuppet]

What I love are the looks his 'ghost' daughters keep giving him - one is as you'd expect with a kind of 'why hast thou forsaken us' look, but the other ones just scowls at him with utter fucking contempt each time. I'd love to know if it's scripted or not!