Clark is a fun show with a dark undertone that comes up more and more towards the end. It has the same buildup as the wolf of Wall Street where you're dragged into the fun world of a criminal with a lot of charisma and no compassion for anyone but himself. The cast is stellar, Bill Skarsgård (It) holds your attention through the show, the straight grounded detective, played by Villhelm Blomgren (Midsommar), is mostly the butt of the joke in most scenes he's in and is seen as incompetent, but he works as someone who's generally just Clark's consciousness.
The show is pretty well paced, with some sequences slowing things down at times, but then it speeds right back on with montages of things happening all the time. The series' director is Jonas Åkerlund, Bathory drummer/cofounder, and director of music videos and movies. I saw Lords of Chaos and was a little worried it would disappoint, but the style from that movie put here worked wonders, it had a certain Guy Ritchie feel to it.
All in all, this was just a lot of rambling, but the series is good. There's a lot of style here, it clearly shows, but the lack of substance through the show is often felt yet it fits this show quite well. It's Swedish TV-show about a real-life Swedish gangster, made by an internationally critically acclaimed Swedish director and actors, scored by a Swedish prog legend, Mikael Åkerfeldt, cofounder and mastermind of Opeth. Doesn't get anymore Swedish than this.
