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I've got to say, this kept me on my toes to the very end even though it felt, literally, goofy at some points. As many has pointed out, many decisions were uncalled for and were hard to get your head around. Hoping for a more straight ahead second season. Usually, when you have a great idea, the script will write itself. Somehow, that didn't happen here.

You don't need to look too hard to interpret "Partisan" as a politicised drama.

There's is, for me, a pretty obvious message pushing multi-cultural-ism. That's no crime in itself but it's simplistic overtones, I feel, ignores many of the complex and often discordant issues, associated with this philosophy. Its hardly a one sided debate, by any means.

The other problem I have with this series is its associating what appears to be a cult of eugenics orientated supremacists, with green initiatives, like organic food. I personally fine it dubious given how much stress and damage, pesticide based, commercial agriculture, is causing to the environment.

Moving beyond these concerns, I came to this series primarily because I'm a big fan of actor Fares Fares, who I first encountered in film adaptations of Jussi Adler-Olsen's crime novels.

As per usual Fares hands in an excellent performance as Johnny the undercover cop. Indeed to be fair, so do other cast members. The cinematography is also, excellent.

That said, I can't find any degree of personal comfort in this series. My reservations about its tone and underlying messages, bothers me. For this reason I wont be watching any further.

5/10.

The show got me hooked with the first two episodes, but after watching the last three last night I am extremely dissapointed - so many lose ends, strange decisions and plot holes...

I have edited my first review of this series, after watching all the episodes. It isn't fair to give a bad review when it turns out to actually pretty good. So, therefor the edit review. The series last 2 episodes got very exciting for me.

After seeing all episodes, I will remove my 5/10 and change it to 7/10.

Some of the 'reviews' on here from 12 year olds who 'only watched one episode', who want more of 'The Killing, The Bridge'..Zzzzzzz. Yes!! It is a B movie, it's supposed to be, and while I agree the execution was not on point I can only assume this was probably due to various covid restrictions placed on the completion of the piece. If you like Whicker Man, The Prisoner, you'll understand this. Even people leaving it 1/10 can't stop themselves from leaving spoilers. Grow up.

First l want you to know that this is my first rating, and as Swedish myself I have a lot of experience with swedish movies amd tv-shows.

I first heard of this tv-show a couple of days ago as a Swedish news program announced that there will be a second season of Partisan.

I checked up the show here and checked the first 20-30 reviews, Since 90% of the users had given it one or two stars I first felt like I might aswell ignore this show altogether.

However, I usually want something running on my tv as I sit with my laptop, and season one was only 5 episodes.

So I watched ( well I guess I mostly heard ) all episodes today.

After the third shows I got kind of got curious what it all was about and how it was going to end.

So with all that said, let me telll you what I agree and do not agree with here.

Manuscript : Sure is not the best, but I have seen a lot worse, Some plotholes indeed and some questions that never got answered. With a new season coming they might adress this.

Acting : Somewhat ok. I think Fares Fares did a good job given what he had to work with.

I do agree that at some points I reacted on a poor acting aswell,

This show seem to work better with Swedish people I think, wich does not really suprise me.

I did not really know ehter to rate this show 5 or 6 but I think it is worth a 6 with its uniqe plot.

Bad acting worst script. If you think game of thrones had a bad ending you are hate this one. Ridiculous actions taken by the main character who is supposed to be a policeman, not credible att all.

The premise of the story is chilling, reminiscent of Douglas Murray's "The Strange Death of Europe" (published 2017). There is far more to this than just a fenced community pretending to live the ideal life. It may be an uncomfortable plot to watch, but needs to be seen.

There were holes as big as a moon crater in this mini series. By the end, so little was resolved.

The plot summary does not do this justice. It's actually a lone-cop drama, a misfit of course. I found the organic farming to be incidental; it could have been any cultish organisation in an enclosed large parcel of land with buildings. I actually found the belief in organic farming and the political views held by the dirigeants of the farm to be dichotomous.

However, nothing was explained. How did the farm come to the attention of the cops? And who were these cops anyway who had such latitude to mount such an unconventional operation? Why were the sisters so essential to the farm when there were so many children there already? Where on earth was the unexplained money coming from?

There were so many "how did they...?" and "how come...?" moments that to describe them risks entering spoiler territory. It just didn't hang together, there was no coherence.

I really like Fares Fares and he didn't disappoint. Several other stalwarts of Scandi drama starred as well and turned in competent performances. They'd have been more convincing with a decent story though - some of them looked faintly embarrassed at the nonsense they were performing.

The ending was slightly unexpected but had to be contrived to finish like that.

It wasn't a total waste of time but I could have spent the hours on something better.

This was much too disappointing. Too many lose ends. Terrific Fares Fares can't save this mess.

This show had so much potential but for every episode that I watched it felt that they just let it all slip through their fingers more and more.

This could have been a movie instead of a series... all this could've been wrapped up in 90minutes basically. Unnecessary dialogues, lose ends, poor character backgrounds, illogical decisions and let's not even talk about the ending.

I give it a 3 because I liked the setting nothing else.

Big disappointment...Not even Fares Fares is on hos best this time... What we in Sweden call a "turkey series"... Hope we don't have to see another season.

This powerful series is not to be judged by conventional standards. It is not an action cop series set in Sweden. Rather it is a story of alienation, corruption, white suprematism, revealing an under belly of vicious violence and control. It is no coincidence that the title Partisan has the soundtrack from Leonard Cohen, a song originating from the French Resistance when the French were trying to evade and defeat Nazi occupation. There are many references to Foreigner, spoken with vile contempt. The acting is outstanding, the most believable realism I have seen, despite the storyline. The whole atmosphere is terrifying, the drama is more psychological than action based. If you want an action based, logical narrative cop series, this is not that. Although I would have liked a neat ending, sadly there was no need, as in life. If you like to relate to the pain of alienation, loss and the struggle to survive amongst evil, then you will be moved.

I expected more from a Swedish production, but it has such a poor storyline and there is no exitement at all to enjoy. What a waste of time to watch and of such good Swedish actors.

So disappointed. What could have been a great story turned out to be a big disappointment. Just sad!

The last episode was completely disappointing!!! I'd like to have seen people get arrested. Some justice dished out. Christ almighty what a disappointing production. Like others have said who escapes over open fields, All you need is a pair of pliers to cut through that fence. This script was full of holes.

Did an American write the script for them to Google translate to swedish? If you want something to fall asleep to this is great!

An idyllic organic farming comune turns out to be a fascistic blood-and-soil cult in this intelligent Swedish thriller. For sure, the plot is a little fantastical, but the motivation and character of the villains makes sense, unlike many "trouble in paradise" stories where there's little real explanation for the darkness below the surface. Here, the ethics and the aesthetics tie together nicely; and at just five episodes, the grim story moves along lightly. The final fight is unusally convincing.

Awful acting, paper thin plot and a huge amount of loose end. This is so bad. Do not watch.