Contrarienne doesn't do reviews (cuz it's a blog) but Wallander was about the best TV she's seen in a long time. Yeah, Friday Night Lights is great, and so is most of the top HBO stuff, but Wallander is in another category.
For one thing, you won't see photography this good on any other television program. It's film quality. Not movie quality, film quality. Every frame is a masterpiece.
And then there's Kenneth Branagh in the lead role of the darkly agonized Swedish detective. Perfect.
Supporting cast is, as always from BBC-originated stuff, right on, especially David Warner as Wallander's artist father, slowly and resentfully descending into Alzheimer's.
Watch online here.
Plus, tonight PBS gave me a documentary on the most famous woman of color presidential candidate you've never heard of, Hawaii's feisty Patsy Mink.
Good stuff all around.
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