I am usually not the person to make the following comment, I think I have only said this about a crime show two or three times in the last five years: this show was boring and frustrating to me. The crime itself is fascinating and intriguing and sad. These are among the best actors (Søren Malling, Pilou Asbæk, Rolf Lassgård) and production values are excellent, I love moody contemplative Nordic crime TV and I watch everything that comes out in this genre. I appreciate that this was based on a true story and maybe the minimalist portrayal is a deliberate stylistic choice. Because it is a “true crime” story the point of the show is that real police work is dull and methodical but you stick with it even though nothing happens in real police work 90% of the time and then justice will be done. If that is the approach to me it would have been better as a documentary on a crime. I thought it would be a crime drama, there’s only about 90 minutes of dramatic material here. I stayed with it out hoping it would pick up pace (I couldn’t believe that something with such high production values and actors and such a fascinating crime would continue to be so slow and muted). From the comments on here I see that I’m in the minority, the people who already knew about this as a historical event, enjoyed it very much. 3/5

I would watch an entire movie with all these Lokis in it

ohh!! watch the end of credit scene ;)

This is the comic book version of Lupin and I am there for it. Omar Sy has jeu d’esprit coming out of his pores. You either like Omar Sy or you don’t but he’s the kind of actor you want if you’re making a comic book Lupin. The Lupin fanbase are just as obsessed about canon and continuity as every MCU comic-head. A lot of them are not thrilled that this was updated from 19th century Paris society to modern day Paris and that Lupin was reimagined as a black character. 19th century Lupin spends years mastering disguise and deception to avoid being recognized while he’s pranking his society peers and settling scores through elaborate schemes. Comic book Lupin has tech and attitude, the mastery not so much. To me, he’s a classic flawed superhero. He’s sloppy and foolish and sentimental and he ghosts on the people who care about him. He escapes all consequences because the writers give him improbable lucky breaks he shouldn’t get, to save his butt for the next issue. Nobody in the Paris of this Lupin looks closely at a black man and he plays that to advantage. He’s right in front of the people constantly searching for him in broad daylight. His disguises aren’t really all that good. He’s just not a suspect because his superpower is his skin. You can be offended by the heavy-handed attempt to make you feel bad about racism, but he has a lot of fun with it and that’s pretty hilarious. If you were looking for classic Arsene Lupin or hoping for a sophisticated ‘Thomas Crowne Affair’ type heist-and-caper story, this show is going to disappoint you.

There is some excellent writing and acting in here. It’s uneven - many things I liked a lot, and many things I didn’t. Overall, I think it’s a great watch and I’m happy to believe that we will be getting better and better stuff from HBO Nordic from here on out.

Pros: Some nice twists: I’ve seen a lot of procedurals and while some of it was completely predictable, in several places it caught me off guard. Maya’s character: at first she’s practically a cartoon, arrogant and unlikeable, hostile, suspicious of all men - by the time you get through a couple more episodes it swings into focus and it’s all very clear where it comes from. You assume she’s flawed due to temperament and attitudes, you find out she’s flawed due to damage that’s been done to her by her family and community. Maya’s mother: five stars - this actress performs the most realistic portrayal I’ve seen of a manipulative, self-medicated elderly dementia patient. Her character does an artful dance between the self-aware sudden flashes of anger alternating with indifference provoked by her daughter, and the feigned helplessness which keeps her drug habit going. Elle, who opens the series and becomes the second story line running through the plot, is full of the optimism and self-confidence that makes small-town characters believe they are wise to the world and then recoil from the cynicism she’s forced to face. She’s the perfect balance against Maya.

Cons: The criminal with the cleft palate. A disability stigma that goes all the way back to the dark ages, runs through all of Shakespeare, up through the Victorian era, and is still alive and well today. The demonization of people with disabilities is utterly deplorable. He pissed me off every time I saw him and it distracted me from the plot. I kept thinking, why did this actor accept this role? The police chief: I kept waiting for him to develop in some way that would pull him into the plot, for the narrative to give him something that explained why he’s an obstacle and why I should care. It didn’t and I didn’t.

The relationship between Maya and her mother is incredibly well written and well played. Best character interaction of the show. So much of this show is about how people get broken and ill and what they need when they begin to heal, and how those efforts get cut short by other characters’ agendas. You know the boyfriend is going to be some kind of villain, this reveals him as just as much of an uncaring manipulator as everyone else, and that’s bleak.

Did not see that coming.

The role playing techniques in this episode really creeped me out - super effective

My #2: I was BLOWN AWAY by the mid-century period way this was done. Just as good as Legion in that regard - we got the 50’s cartoons, the 60’s Jetsons vibe, the swingin 70’s with the colored appliances, some of the tech was what I can only call midcentury retro futuro-steampunk. I’m a little bit bored with using the timeline, it’s almost become a crutch in a lot of series, but here I love it. Loki is the OG chaotic character. Of course he can subvert all those protective layers. Takes him 15 minutes to figure out the vulnerabilities in the tech and the people and exploit them. I love everything about this :)

I enjoyed the show and love the character and actor, really liked to see Owen Wilson. That said hasn’t the future cop past self hunting future self trope been done to death already? When they said the person on the floor died from stab wounds I was really hoping the person that they where looking for would turn out to be Deadpool. Regardless I found it entertaining and worth watching.

hmmm, okay poetic….butterflies are beautiful indeed, but me and this thing with bugs in general freaks me out. No lie as soon as I saw, I screamed; closed my eyes real quick (LOL). Thanks for all the help