I'm almost finished with the entire show, on episode nine. Somehow I've managed to make it thru, albeit with lots of screaming at the TV.
First and foremost, someone please tell the writers and/or directors to consult with actual LE when doing a gritty crime drama. The lead detective, Karlijn, is terrible and the young officer is not any better!
Karlijn zooms in on one character from the get-go, and attempts to prove he's guilty throughout the entire series. She's not trying to solve the case. She wants to prove Olaf, if he is indeed Olaf, is guilty. The worst kind of investigating.
Meanwhile, murders galore occurr all over the village, and no matter who it is or what happened, she tries to connect it with Olaf. It's quite ridiculous. I know there are LE who do this IRL, and those are terrible detectives as well.
And while she's busy trying to prove Olaf's guilt, things are going down all over town that she and the other LE are completely ignoring. When Maud is murdered, they discover cocaine in a locked cabinet on their boat. She questions the husband, he gives some very obvious nervous and lame answers, so does she keep the husband under surveillance? Of course not! Meanwhile, Angry Stupid Husband and Creepy Van Something-Or-Other hop into into their boats to go to a big drug deal, where he accuses the drug dealer of killing his wife, and almost gets the two of them killed. But the police aren't aware of any of it, and they never follow up on it ever again!
Another situation, Olaf is walking around an old area where there used to be a community garden and cabins, because he has a memory flashback to being tied up in a basement, and it turns out there are also underground tunnels that only certain locals know about. LE searches the whole area, finds the bullet casings IN THE DARK, and somehow never sees the entrances to the basement or the tunnels, until a couple episodes later, and by the young officer assisting Karlijn. It's so frustrating!
But the most annoying thing of all has got to be the looks she gives Olaf CONSTANTLY. She's forever giving him the "I know what you did and it's only a matter of time before I catch you.". It seriously makes you want to slap that smug glare right off her face.
And they've given her a back story of her son's suicide, which you find out later on, and even that didn't make me feel sorry for her. She's so awful, and her incompetence has allowed the murderer(s) get away with at least four more murders, so it's hard to feel any sympathy for her character.
First and foremost, someone please tell the writers and/or directors to consult with actual LE when doing a gritty crime drama. The lead detective, Karlijn, is terrible and the young officer is not any better!
Karlijn zooms in on one character from the get-go, and attempts to prove he's guilty throughout the entire series. She's not trying to solve the case. She wants to prove Olaf, if he is indeed Olaf, is guilty. The worst kind of investigating.
Meanwhile, murders galore occurr all over the village, and no matter who it is or what happened, she tries to connect it with Olaf. It's quite ridiculous. I know there are LE who do this IRL, and those are terrible detectives as well.
And while she's busy trying to prove Olaf's guilt, things are going down all over town that she and the other LE are completely ignoring. When Maud is murdered, they discover cocaine in a locked cabinet on their boat. She questions the husband, he gives some very obvious nervous and lame answers, so does she keep the husband under surveillance? Of course not! Meanwhile, Angry Stupid Husband and Creepy Van Something-Or-Other hop into into their boats to go to a big drug deal, where he accuses the drug dealer of killing his wife, and almost gets the two of them killed. But the police aren't aware of any of it, and they never follow up on it ever again!
Another situation, Olaf is walking around an old area where there used to be a community garden and cabins, because he has a memory flashback to being tied up in a basement, and it turns out there are also underground tunnels that only certain locals know about. LE searches the whole area, finds the bullet casings IN THE DARK, and somehow never sees the entrances to the basement or the tunnels, until a couple episodes later, and by the young officer assisting Karlijn. It's so frustrating!
But the most annoying thing of all has got to be the looks she gives Olaf CONSTANTLY. She's forever giving him the "I know what you did and it's only a matter of time before I catch you.". It seriously makes you want to slap that smug glare right off her face.
And they've given her a back story of her son's suicide, which you find out later on, and even that didn't make me feel sorry for her. She's so awful, and her incompetence has allowed the murderer(s) get away with at least four more murders, so it's hard to feel any sympathy for her character.
