It's back...

Forbrydelsen II is being shown on BBC Four and I was so excited I donned my favourite woolly jumper, dimmed all the lights in the house and my boyfriend and I were both deliberately monosyllabic and surly with each other.

That is how much I love this show.

Strange behaviour you might think, especially for a cop show, especially for a Danish cop show, but then if you watched the first series, you'll know that Forbrydelsen is a lot more than that. It's intelligent; insanely well written and unabashedly dark and it doesn't strive for closure.  In short I love it.  The first series which I watched when BBC 4 repeated it in nightly chunks over the summer and it had me and the boyfriend hooked completely.

New series though, how could they top the last one?  To be honest I'm not sure that they can but the first episode was good.  Lund is now a customs officer, and Brix invites her to look at a case. Which she doesn't want to do, but then slowly slowly, she calls by and looks at the case.

We were a bit too tired to watch the second episode so I discuss things in detail but I'm left wondering what's going to happen next, will I get over the loss of characters who were central in making the first series so good. Troels Hartman, Meyer and Theis and Pernelle…  I missed them all especially Troels.

But Forbrydelsen is back. Tak.