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Medecinmannen which is Swedish for "The medicine man" is a TV-show which consists of eight episodes that was actually good. Swedish TV and Movie productions always feel kind of lame if you compare to Hollywood productions and other big budget productions.

And rest assure this is no exception, the lack of money really makes this TV-show quite dull to watch but I saw all eight episodes anyways. You need to be patient when you see this show because the acting is terrible. But hey, it's a Swedish production so you can't expect anything else really.

Mikael Persbrant is good doe, he is really convincing as the main-character Martin Holst.

There are some mediocre actors as well, the kidnappers are not all that bad and Lennart Hjulström who plays Alex Holst is also quite good. But the rest of the cast is terrible.

Nina Grunke is not convincing as the role of Anna, Martin's wife who is kidnapped.

Albert Gruziel who plays Jonas who also is kidnapped is probably the worse child actor in modern time. He nearly makes this show unwatchable and all the scenes when he has to act out, like when he is crying and so on is just terrible. I closed my eyes every time because these scenes took the excitement out of this show and I started to think about when I was ten years old and had to participate in school plays.

Karin Hagås who played Tintin, Martin's daughter is not good either.

What I wanted to say with all of this is that Mikael Persbrant carried this show on his shoulders all by himself and made it good.

The writing was good but not great, the plot twists was never really surprising and that took away much of the excitement, unfortunately.

I give this show 6/10, if the acting was better and the plot was more advanced I would give it 8/10.

I really didn't like this show when it was aired in Sweden. The show was really frustrating in a strange way. It was so full of clichés and it felt like a "wannabe-american-show". The characters were talking about running to Mexico(!), I mean, the show takes place in Sweden for crying out loud! The actors didn't do a good job in any way what so ever, but I guess it's hard to work with such a bad script. It really bugged me that some people liked this show so much, everybody has the right to their own opinion of course, but come on, this show is a parody...

/ Angry swede, 1 out of 10

This great miniseries is one of the most exciting Swedish dramas I've ever seen. Filled with emotion, action and suspense Medicinmannen gave me and my family many hours of great entertainment. The actors were all great and the story was super, but the only negative thing was that sometimes I got the impression that the directors were stressed and in a hurry. This is a great pity, but still Medicinmannen is one of the best Swedish drama series ever. Some of the scenes are very strong emotionally and may be potentially upsetting, but they deal with important questions and should be seen if possible. All in all TV4 showed great guts and spirit when they for once commissioned such a ambitious production.