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Reviews
Motherland (2016)
The Independent hates it
The Independent says: "Motherland has so far wasted a real opportunity to challenge social norms and provide inclusive, intersectional representations of parenthood"
So I like it already! It might get even more stars when I've watched it.
Monster (2017)
Batpoop Crazy
I really wished they'd found the murderer more quickly then I wouldn't have had to sit through 7 episodes of this nonsense. There was only a couple of dozen people who live in their part of North Norway so it couldn't have been that difficult, but none of the police seemed to do much in the way of work so it took a bit longer.
By the end I was really hoping those labyrinth symbols meant that it was actually aliens that killed everyone and that an alien ship would come down in the last episode and admit their killing spree but it wasn't to be. That would've fitted in a lot better with the batpoop craziness of the rest of the show. It was quite a nice ending really. Obviously not nice enough to fill the huge plot holes, but still nice.
One thing finally, I know in the UK we have a bit of a north/south divide, but how in these Nordic noir shows do they so blatantly get away with portraying northern Nordics as crazy religious nutters who need police to travel up from the Oslo or Helsinki to solve their crimes? Doesn't that annoy the northern Nordics? Do they even get a say in it?