Trapped

[Mr Larrington]

Now up to date. 

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The key falling from Eiríkur's whiffy trousers is another red herring.  No-one has yet pointed a finger at Laufey avenging the killin' utterly to DETH of her little suster, so I'm going to.  Unless it's teenage fuck-beast Hjalmar, but I think he's been too busy.

[PeteB99]

Sorry for the spoilers before - I forgot you hadn't caught up.

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Agree about the key. Unless you wanted it found it would be in the harbour or in the middle of a 20 foot snowdrift.

Hinrika's dopehead husband couldn't be acting shiftier if he tried. And what are the chances of the ferry captain arriving in Reykavik in one piece?

[Bledlow]

The third policeman Asgeir? is hiding something as well.

A bicycle?

Wrong island. That's a 'c', not an 'r'. 

[Mr Larrington]

How do Icelanders get angry with each other when they have to use given names all the time?  But anyway...

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I was half-expecting the departing ferry to blow up in a flurry of crap SFX. And yes, the stoner is definitely a shifty bugger of the Worst Sort.

Geidmundur started the fire that killed Dagny, Hrafn found out but ran him out of town rather than nicking him as doing any policing would have interfered with his becoming mayor.  Laufey somehow learned this and killed them both utterly to DETH, framing Sigurdur and Eiríkur in the process for reasons which I have yet to fathom.

The third policeman Asgeir? is hiding something as well.

A bicycle?

I'm afraid that since this post I've been thinking of him as the only TV copper ever named after a bicycle transmission - Osgear.

[Mr Larrington]

(Decides not to give up day job in favour of writing Scandicrimethings)

[Pingu]

I knew Asgeir was wearing the red jersey.

[PeteB99]

Blimey that was a bit bleak

[Mr Larrington]

I shoul have realised that cut-price Ted Danson impersonator Guðni was a wrong 'un.  He drove an Audi 4x4.

Note to the Mega-Global Fruit Corporation of Cupertino, USAnia: you think you're clever with your press-and-hold FOREIGN character typing antics so why won't it do Icelandic, eh?  EH??

[Pancho]

When this thread title popped up on my "unread" screen, I was hoping it was a plea for help from a YACF-er trapped in a lift with nothing but a packet of Smarties, a small penknife, and an internet connection.

[Mr Larrington]

Hinrika is watching you...

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^ Is she the one with the odd bulbous brow?

[mattc]

I'm beginning to ask my wife: "Who's she?" And: "Is she the one who was bonking?" "Which one's Guirmunder?"

We now never watch programmes with this amount of intellectual challenge in real time.  The recorder starts up at the beginning of the episode, and we start watching about a minute later, with lots of rewinding to answer those annoying little questions about whether we saw her with him 5 minutes ago and was the arsonist holding (a) an ice pick (b) a shovel (c) a walking stick.  We can usually make out the men from the women, but finer differentiation requires more investigation with the rewinder. 

Oh thank god it's not just us! Although I very rarely resort to the pause/rewind option, it just seems so ... wrong. I do tend to struggle on, with urgent whispered questions to my - long-suffering - partner. Perhaps if digi-recorders had been invented before my birth I'd be more pragmatic!

Anyhoo: about two episodes in here. Quite enjoying it overall - it's not gripping, but is nicely devoid of many tired scandi/crime/BBC4/middle-class ponce slot  cliches.