Seen on Mhz way back in the Nordic noir day
November 23, 2024 5:00 PM Subscribe
I saw a Swedish police procedural on Mhz back in the 20 years ago days when Mhz was a public channel stateside. It was an episode of Sebastian Bergman if I recall correctly. A silent man sits on a bus stop bench. Two or three youths approach. A big knife is waved at him. Things do not end well for them.
CW Violence: He stabs them all to death with a large knife to the chest -- a knife which he either wrests from them or produces on his own. Which stabbings he completes by striking the pommel of the knife with his hand. He sits back on the bench when done, is picked up by the police, and throughout the episode sits expressionless and still, never speaking a word while under interrogation. He had neither fingerprints nor profile on record. A few hints of sardonic amusement appear in his reaction shots. I am searching Sebastian Bergman sites online but have yet to find any with episode synopses. Does any of this sound familiar to any of our Nordic Noir afficionados hereabout? That episode has always stuck in my mind because that interrogation was acting! /Jon Lovitz
CW Violence: He stabs them all to death with a large knife to the chest -- a knife which he either wrests from them or produces on his own. Which stabbings he completes by striking the pommel of the knife with his hand. He sits back on the bench when done, is picked up by the police, and throughout the episode sits expressionless and still, never speaking a word while under interrogation. He had neither fingerprints nor profile on record. A few hints of sardonic amusement appear in his reaction shots. I am searching Sebastian Bergman sites online but have yet to find any with episode synopses. Does any of this sound familiar to any of our Nordic Noir afficionados hereabout? That episode has always stuck in my mind because that interrogation was acting! /Jon Lovitz
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