The Killing

"Good thrillers know where they have to go. Into the heart of darkness. The author Søren Sveistrup understands the art of approaching it from different places, albeit with a very unique method. [He developed] a mapping of (Danish) society on the brink of decay. [...] Formally, the second season is not simply a variation on the first. In the [ten] new episodes, Inspector Lund is sent to a truly dark province, and in her private life everything has only gotten worse. [...] Sofie Gråbøl plays this with wonderful restraint, nothing of the patented and cracked self-confident demeanor of the German female investigators in the civil service." (Georg Seeßlen, DIE ZEIT) --- The body of lawyer Anne Dragsholm is found in a park, brutally mutilated and left at the national war memorial. The case appears to point unequivocally to a crime of passion, as her husband was found covered in blood in his car. However, the crucial piece of evidence needed to convict him of murder is missing....