Kommissarie Winter

OK, so this show is over a decade old, but new to the big streaming world obsessed with gruesome crime and the weary detectives who solve them. The series is based on one of the best, seminal Scandi-crime series of novels by Ake Edwards. The books are full of a wonderful cast of oddball cops and elliptical plots, great dialogue. Which has been entirely left out of this show. Lead character Winters is unrecognizeable, now an MHz standard-issue cop, scruffy, haunted, all wrinkled linen. Could be filmed anywhere, no sense of Sweden as locale. Read the books, watch this series for the comfort meal that most of MHz is, wall to wall copycat crime shows.