I’ve started watching a Norwegian cop drama called Wisting, thinking it would be interesting
to compare it with the Swedish Wallander.
Well now, if you think the Swedes are the world champions in the glumness
stakes, think again. Norwegians, it seems, are even glummer (though a little less self-absorbed.) No wonder the
Vikings spent all their time risking life, limb, and sanity desperately trying
to be somewhere else. (But at least the Danish Vikings had the good sense to
settle in Britain and France.) And it
appears that both Swedish and Norwegian detectives are similarly saddled with
troublesome daughters.
I do have to add, however, that they’re all so very decent and earnest. I like that.
And I’m only kidding anyway…
Oh, and another difference: Norwegian detectives drive big, meaty vehicles. Swedish detectives drive posh ones. There's generalisation for you.
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