One of the best police dramas I have seen for a long time. I hated the first chapter because of its dramatic false cutting - but I gave it another chance and did not regret it for a Minute. Real size people with real size abilities with stories that are not solved within 45 minutes. Most characters are realistic except one stereotypic police commander. When there is a good story you do not need "modern editing" that jumps like crazy between scenes (chapter 1). I also highly recommend the Danish-Swedish police drama – The Bridge and also – the Italian "Inspector Montabano. Thanks to the BBC I discovered a whole world of European TV in languages I do not speak.It is refreshing to watch good TV. Do not miss it.
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good start but
plenum11 March 2013
Warning: Spoilers
This is a very well structured first episode, with many interesting takes and some commendable acting. Unfortunately, the research work must have been done by people with very little acquaintance with Romanian culture. "Elina" is not an usual name in Romanian, and the Cyrillic alphabet is not in use in Romania and has not been for the past 160 years. The whole investigation starts off by means of the girl's leg plate, and yet it would have made absolutely no sense for it to have had Cyrillic writing on it. Except if she were actually coming from Moldova instead of Romania, but that's probably too much subtlety for the show's research team.
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