Halmer
- Episode aired Nov 27, 2022
- 58m
IMDb RATING
7.0/10
313
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A mysterious voice calls upon the sleep walker, Karen, during a nightmare. The Kingdom is in need of her assistance, and at the hospital, she finds an ally in the porter, Bulder.A mysterious voice calls upon the sleep walker, Karen, during a nightmare. The Kingdom is in need of her assistance, and at the hospital, she finds an ally in the porter, Bulder.A mysterious voice calls upon the sleep walker, Karen, during a nightmare. The Kingdom is in need of her assistance, and at the hospital, she finds an ally in the porter, Bulder.
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Jasmine Junker
- BOB 2.0
- (voice)
Solbjørg Højfeldt
- Camilla
- (credit only)
Laura Christensen
- Mona Jensen
- (credit only)
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Did you know
- TriviaHolger Danske (Ogier the Dane) is a mythical character, a statue of whom can be found at Kronborg Castle.
- Quotes
Helmer Jr.: Take me to your leader.
Featured review
Danskjävlar!
The Danish 1994 miniseries The Kingdom (org. Title Riget) is arthouse legend Lars von Trier's first big hit and arguably his finest creation. Now, nearly three decades later, the story gets finished -- a welcome surprise, in one way, but definitely a revelation that made me nervous.
Some of you might've discovered the show if you already enjoy Von Trier, are into artsy/foreign media in general, or just wanted to know the basis for 2006's Kingdom Hospital, but if you didn't watch the original run in Scandinavia, you won't understand what this show means to some of us and why we were alarmed about this. We all feared the same thing. Without the late Ernst-Hugo Järegård, this show wouldn't work. Without Dr. Stig Helmer -- or, at the very least, some inferior substitute -- barking insults at everyone and everything at the haunted hospital of the title, Riget just isn't Riget. Luckily, the sequel does understand that the show NEEDS an angry Swede among the "Danish scum" (Danskjävlar) and so casts Mikael Persbrandt as Helmer Jr.
Persbrandt is known for his irritable characters, particularly in the beloved Beck series, ergo he is a good replacement. But the original Helmer is iconic and might take the cake as the angriest character ever created for television; even at his most intense, Persbrandt could never hold a candle to the presence of Järegård. Exodus does try to do its predecessor justice in other ways: the grainy, shaky camera work, jump-cuts, lack of studio lights, and sickeningly brown image are almost identical to the murky Dogme 95 aesthetics of the original, and it still has that crazy-ass theme song.
Other Kingdom essentials are present, including a Skarsgård cameo (albeit one of Stellan's sons this time) and a disabled actor offering musings on the plot between every scene. And no, it's not the usual "Here's what you're supposed to interpret" spiel we've seen from Trier's most recent narrator characters (Nymphomaniac; The House That Jack Built), created purely for self-fellating purposes. It seems like Von Trier's hubris is held at bay when he gets to work with Morten Arnfred and Niels Vørsel; the end credits speeches even seem to be jokes at his expense now.
All-in-all, I enjoyed Exodus' two-part premiere (currently streaming on ViaPlay in Scandinavia; out on Mubi next month), but it's not "hugget i granit" the way the true Riget was. I'm a fan of Riget first and Von Trier second, so I'll let the thinkpiece writers decide later down the line whether this is truly his Twin Peaks: The Return (he certainly takes the homage even further this time, featuring at least one owl that's not what it seems) or merely his Matrix: Resurrections.
Some of you might've discovered the show if you already enjoy Von Trier, are into artsy/foreign media in general, or just wanted to know the basis for 2006's Kingdom Hospital, but if you didn't watch the original run in Scandinavia, you won't understand what this show means to some of us and why we were alarmed about this. We all feared the same thing. Without the late Ernst-Hugo Järegård, this show wouldn't work. Without Dr. Stig Helmer -- or, at the very least, some inferior substitute -- barking insults at everyone and everything at the haunted hospital of the title, Riget just isn't Riget. Luckily, the sequel does understand that the show NEEDS an angry Swede among the "Danish scum" (Danskjävlar) and so casts Mikael Persbrandt as Helmer Jr.
Persbrandt is known for his irritable characters, particularly in the beloved Beck series, ergo he is a good replacement. But the original Helmer is iconic and might take the cake as the angriest character ever created for television; even at his most intense, Persbrandt could never hold a candle to the presence of Järegård. Exodus does try to do its predecessor justice in other ways: the grainy, shaky camera work, jump-cuts, lack of studio lights, and sickeningly brown image are almost identical to the murky Dogme 95 aesthetics of the original, and it still has that crazy-ass theme song.
Other Kingdom essentials are present, including a Skarsgård cameo (albeit one of Stellan's sons this time) and a disabled actor offering musings on the plot between every scene. And no, it's not the usual "Here's what you're supposed to interpret" spiel we've seen from Trier's most recent narrator characters (Nymphomaniac; The House That Jack Built), created purely for self-fellating purposes. It seems like Von Trier's hubris is held at bay when he gets to work with Morten Arnfred and Niels Vørsel; the end credits speeches even seem to be jokes at his expense now.
All-in-all, I enjoyed Exodus' two-part premiere (currently streaming on ViaPlay in Scandinavia; out on Mubi next month), but it's not "hugget i granit" the way the true Riget was. I'm a fan of Riget first and Von Trier second, so I'll let the thinkpiece writers decide later down the line whether this is truly his Twin Peaks: The Return (he certainly takes the homage even further this time, featuring at least one owl that's not what it seems) or merely his Matrix: Resurrections.
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