Based on the mystery books by Henning Mankell, Wallander, stars Kenneth Branagh as Detective Kurt Wallander. The series set and filmed in the town of Ystad, Sweden. Beautifully shot and well acted it is the best the BBC has to offer. It is one of the few crime dramas where the violence of the world actually has an emotional impact on the characters. I would definitely say that this is in no way a light-hearted series. I would put it in my Dad's category of "well done but depressing".
The thing I love most about this series is how often it depends on the actors acting instead of spelling it all out through dialogue, the actors actually use looks, even basics like how they carry themselves to tell a story that both shows what the characters are putting forth to the world- the stories people tell themselves, and how that relates to others.
As with many mystery series, it still has the problem of how one could see and go through so much and still remain sane, but even that it addresses in many ways.
Available on Netflix, though you have to get the disks. It is two series each of only three episodes (six total) they run each about an hour and a half.
Because the series is produced in part by Yellow Bird which is owned by Henning Mankell series three will have six episodes, three based on the books and three which are new works entirely.
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