The Pillars of the Earth

Well I just stopped everything and spend all my spare time reading The Pillars of the Earth and cannot get enough of it. Just as I decide to leave it, something crucial happens and I have to read more. It was really hard to stop last night and this morning the staff shuttle reached the work place very quickly. Now I'm very curious whether Aliena will marry Alfred (noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!) and Jack's paternal back ground. He is going to be some sort of French royal I guess. Meanwhile my prior Phillip just cannot get a break. Not only Tom died and he is stuck with Alfred who is not a bad mason but not as imaginative or intelligent as Tom and his dreams to make Jack a bishop or something are completely out there since Jack does not want to be a part of a religious organisation and he only accepted to be novice monk because otherwise he'd have to leave Kingsbrigde (which means Cathedral and more imporantly Aliena).

Kekkon Dekinai Otoko - End, Brave, The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants, Indecent Proposal, Bergen S:2 Eps.2

Kekkon Dekinai Otoko ended very nicely. I like this type of Japanese dorama, no fuss, no grandoise spectacle, only some good conversations and nice people doing nice things. Also I liked the fact that Shinsuke decided that marriage was not a bad thing only after he developed feelings for our good doctor. And the doctor admitting her feelings and opening up to Shinsuke first was great. All in all this one is a win :)
Amount of tears: Moderate


Brave despite the accents and the fact that I don't like this type of animation, I loved Brave. And I loved the ending because the princess didn't get married (oh God I need to stop this getting married thing).
Amount of tears: Copious

The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants  this is not a life changing film in any way so no one should expect much out of it but it was a decent enough time spent and the girls all gave good performances. There was an amount of sincerity to the whole thing.
Amount of tears: Copious 

Indecent Proposal I saw this one years and years ago and it didn't leave any impression. This second viewing was more pleasant. Firstly I'm now older so I can understand the conflict better, secondly I like the 80's MV sensibility of the whole film.

Borgen S:2 Eps2      Casper and Katherina are made for each other. Too bad it would probably take the whole season for them to admit this. The series started nicely but this second episode was not as good. Anyway I enjoyed it.

Meanwhile The Pillars of the Earth is so so good that I have to stop myself from reading all night.

Kekkon Dekinai Otoko - Eps.7

Well, I'm so in love with Kekkon Dekinai Otoko that it took a lot of will power (and knowing that I got tons to do at work) to leave it at just two episodes.

I do love it that they are slowly coming closer and closer and now the time comes for a rival (I think) for either one. Even if there is not a rival, I do like their interactions, their differences complimenting each other and how they both started to develop feelings for the other and now only waiting for the other one to give a sign...

But it is not just the two of them, I like all the characters and how they interact. How easy going the whole thing is. And I do love watching Shinsuke's routine. I find myself very similar with this character and I think I know that the show will conclude this is not a good way to live but I do like how he buys the same things, loves watching films, likes to listen to classical music (I'm currently listening to Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No.1) and do not want to visit anyone and do not want anyone to visit him. He goes everywhere on his own and feels at ease doing so. Ganbatte Shinsuke :)

The Pillars of the Earth is still going strong and I'm enjoying it very much.

I think I'll take photos of the things I read and watch to catalogue everything better, or maybe I just like to add pictures to the blog.

Silent Hill:Revelation, Kekkon Dekinai Otoko - Eps: 5, A Week in Winter - End, The Pillars of the Earth

Silent Hill:Revelation well I have not seen the first one but it was fairly easy to follow, disgusting and scary visuals and an interesting story with a decent message but all in all I can't say I was scared, I was not very impressed either. It was all so familiar, been there done that etc. I have become jaded as far as horror films go, so maybe I need to watch Texas Chain Saw Massacre again.

I have started another Japanese drama called Kekkon Dekinai Otoko and it means The Man Who Cannot Get Married. I'm loving it. First it is about people my own age, and it is about people who have not yet married for reasons more to do with themselves than lack of candidates. He is antisocial, honest to fault and a creature of habit with a kind heart. She is nice, happy in her own company but does not reject social interaction. She is sensitive and also very kind. They are both hardworking, they love their jobs (he is an architect, she is a medical doctor) and even though they are not particularly worried of being single they do feel the need for the company of a significant other from time to time. And they are attracted to each other and he is more forthcoming but she is shy also a bit weirded out by his insensitive (but honest) remarks and unusual behaviour.

By the interactions of his neighbour who doesn't understand him but she is helpful and cheerful and two colleagues who understand and like him just the way he is, our hero is slowly starting to expand his small world and I'm loving every minute of it.

A Week in Winter is the balm for my soul bruised by Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night, it was classic Binchy and I loved every page of it.

And I have started The Pillars of the Earth written by Ken Follet. To be honest I was not really that into this novel (maybe turned off by its popularity, or by the fact that I was never interested with this author) But I have read the introduction on Amazon and liked it very much and encouraged by the fact that this is nothing like his other novels (by his admission - although it is not nice of me to reject his other work before even reading one) I have purchased this behemonth of a book and currently I'm very very happy that I did. I like the story, the characters and the information of life in medieval times. It is just as well that I have visited MET's Cloisters (and liked them so much) because now I can picture the scenes at the monasteries much better.

Ooku - End, Tender is the Night - End, Borgen Season 1 - End, Borgen Season 2 Eps.1, Shaft, A Week in Winter

This weekend I was able to charge myself thank God.

Ooku has ended. Now that I have finished the series, maybe I'll understand it better. The thing is Ooku is a successful Manga. They have adapted it for TV and the show I have watched is the first chapter of the story with hopefully more to come. Now as the series ended Shogunate is completely ruled by the women. Men are so scarce that even the heir of the Shogun is chosen among the girls. Chie has passed away leaving Arikoto to care of Ooku and the next Shogun who is still a kid. This girl is the eldest of Chie's children and Arikoto recommended her since she is the eldest so this will avoid conflict with the other kids. It is a wise decision since the two fathers, warrior and our Gyokei both lobby for his daughter to be appointed as the next Shogun. Anyway there was a small teaser for the next segment called Ooku:Eternity. As this one took me out of my viewing funk, and really made me shed tears, I'll look forward for the second installment.

Another show that caused the tears to flow, unexpectedly was Borgen Season 1. Casper's story was so touching and so well presented that it was impossible for me to remain neutral against it. Also I ship Casper and Katherine very much but my Danish TV show viewing experience, meager as it is, taught me not to expect a happy ending in love. Anyway Borgen Season 2 also started nicely with a decent conflict: Afghanistan. Does the occupation help the citiziens? Are the horrors of war overcome by the good that is done towards female population and children? Borgen's writers opted for the occupation to continue until peace is restored there and Taliban is completely removed.

Shaft As a change of subject, I got stuck on this while flipping channels. I remember watching it in theaters and apparently it didn't leave any trace except Jeffrey Wright's character Peoples. Man that guy is a good actor. His scenes with Christian Bale were impressive.

Tender is the Night ended as expected and this is my second fave after Gatsby. Dick Diver is a character I sympathised with since I too am trying to be good person. I hope I'll not make the mistakes he made (or were they mistakes?) and that I'll succeed in my endeavours. The book left an impression of me because of Nicole too. Even though it would have been easy to make her the evil one, Fitzgerald didn't do that. She had her own troubles and her own issues to deal with. In the end she was not as sympathetic but not a demonic figure either. I loved her sections towards the end of the book, the way she is relased from Dick's hold on her.

I needed something no nonsense but comfortable after Tender is the Night and who better than Maeve Binchy, whose formulatic but emotional novels are usually exactly what I need after a substantial but scarring read. Now I have  started A Week in Winter and simply happy with everything in it so far.

Ooku Eps 7

This keeps getting better and better.  And the events are shown with a decent speed.

Arikoto is my ideal man now. When he found out that Gyokei killed the kitten and framed the nasty concubine, his reaction was "I have no right to scold you while having dark thoughts in my heart for another person". Arikoto you are perfect. He suffered a lot when Sutezo slept with Chie and to top that she was pregnant in two months. The baby is a girl and Kasuga insisted that she gives birth to a boy so just when good old Sutezo was getting more sure of himself he fell and became paralised poor thing. Arikoto visited him in his sick bed and tried to ease his suffering by assigning more men for his care.

Just when Arikoto and Chie are back together and loving each other more than ever, Kasuga finds another stud for Chie. This time he is the son of a highly respected warior clan and he has excellent decorum. So Arikoto's counter move is putting Gyokei to service as another stud for Chie. His rationale is that if warrior fathers a child than his chances of seeing Chie would be even less. But with Gyokei already like a brother to him, he will have access to Chie (actually this one is not explained clearly but is only my rationale).

Meanwhile men keep dying and women are slowly getting to do all the work and keeping the remaing few young men protected. Many samurai daimyos disguise their daughters as boys as to have heirs.

Tokugawa council proposes that female heirs are allowed, at least for now since the number of male heirs are not sufficient. Surprisingly the one who opposes this idea most is Kasuga, who is very old by now and does not have the same amount of power over everyone. Actually after an outburst opposing the decision and then later getting the worse end of an argument with Arikoto she collapsed. And it is not surprise that Arikoto is the one who takes care of her at her sick bed. Fake Shogun's son is also infected with the disease and likely to die. And now the disease has even reached Ooku and I left the show where Arikoto was making arrangement for the two active concubines to move in with Kasuga and not to come in contact with anyone but the wet nurse of Chie's daughter.

A moderate amount of tears have been shed by me. 

Ooku Eps.4

Well, things are getting interesting. Firstly Arikoto and Chie fell in love for real. Secondly Arikoto established order in Ooku. He has assigned some admin duties for the remaining two concubines and started to conduct discussion sessions with the participation of the majority of Ooku population. Since he cannot practice the sword, he has started archery and slowly beginning to be better at it. As you may have guessed one year has passed.  Chie proved herself to be a clever politician. And young men in the country are still dying of red small pox.

However, there is still no heir. Kasuga blames Arikoto and of course she looks for a new candidate. She found someone at a nearby area. Sozeto is good looking and looks healthy. He is the son of a second hand clothes store owner and currently works as a gigolo. Despite looking like a prince, he has no manner, an atrocious accent (good job subtitle team who made it easy for the non Japanese viewer to distinguish it), he doesn't like to work and he has no qualms sleeping with women for money.

He is introduced to the other concubines and his meeting was very different from Arikoto's first one. Arikoto treated him with kindness, not sugar coat things but gently explaining them. So Kasuga thought it would be good for Arikoto to train Suzeto (that woman is going to reach a bad end I suppose). Of course Arikoto is not happy with the situtation but he has the intelligence to ask Kasuga why. And of course Kasuga explains that keeping the Tokugawa shogunate intact will avoid war. So Arikoto finally sees the light. Talks to Chie who wildly opposed to the idea. She doesn't want anyone else, only Arikoto. I can understand her very well. Also she says the birth of her daughter was very difficult and something must have gone wrong and that is why she cannot get pregnant. Not because Arikoto has faulty seeds.

Gyokuei, the side kick is not a very good swordsman and he is still as misguided as he is. Instead of following Arikoto's example, trying to better his mind, he assumed the role of Arikoto's protector. Thinking Arikoto needs someone who will get angry in his stead. Arikoto is patient and understanding. Of course he never gets angry (aahhh Arikoto, why don't you exsist in real life??) 

There is a side plot of Kasuga's son (who everyone thinks is dead), Shogun impersonator. His wife and two kids still mourn for him even after all these years and he misses them terribly. There is tension between Kasuga and her daughter in law Yuki - she instinctively senses that he husband may not be dead.

Meanwhile Tender is the Night is so good that I have formed a bond with the characters and they are all very sad. This one is not a pleasant read but very filling and good.

Celebrity Sweetheart - Abandoned, Ooku - Tanjou Arikoto Iemitsu Hen Eps.3

Well last night I have finally abandoned Celebrity Sweetheart, it was not going anywhere and the pretty was not pretty enough. God, that show is dull. But then I wondered, am I beginning to turn into a quitter? Afterall I have left Gangs of Wasseypur I halfway through, gave up on Celebrity Sweetheart wtihout even bothering to finish episode 15.

Then I have decided to watch Ooku - Tanjou Arikoto Iemitsu Hen* and despite the fact that it was not something I expected it turned out to be great. Now I thought this was going to be an AU where women have the power, after young men died from a disease called red smallpox. It turned out that it was not so. Yes men die from the disease but there is not a general role reversal. Only they are hiding that the Shogun is dead by replacing him with a loyal samurai (he wears and eleborate hood, everyone thinks it is to hide his face after the disease) and keep the only remaining bloodline of the dead Shogun in the palace so that she can copulate and produce an heir. So the female Shogun (whose Shogunate is only acknowledged by a handful of people) have an Ooku (I understand that this is Japanese harem) filled with young men but they are only there to protect the secret wihtout knowing that it is a secret. She had a total of 4 concubines to produce and one of them died by seppuku after being rather stupidly framed for an act he did not commit. Well you do not rape and torture someone without him plotting revenge on you no? But I'm dissapointed with the little sidekick. He had loads of Buddhist training and you'd expect some of them would kick in and prevent you from taking lives. But no.

Well our protagonist is Arikoto. The youngest son of a noble family from Kyoto who chose to be a Buddhist preist. And he is so good that he was chosen to be the Temple Chief. What he doesn't know is that the woman who has plotted the daring scheme explained in the previous paragraph has chosen him to be the stud who will produce a male heir and continue the Shogunate. Now we all know that if there is not a powerful Shogun there will be civil war and the people will suffer more but to lie like that to protect it? And Kasuga is a clever but ruthless manipulator. After Arikoto is chosen as the new temple chief, he was asked to go to Edo and bow to Shogun in thanks for the appointment. He takes two young monks with him and goes there. But is not allowed to leave. And Kasuga manipulates him into abandoning his wows and have sex with a prostitute. He was not going to do it but Kasuga ordered one of the monks and one of the prostitutes killed right there and then and Arikoto had no other choice but to comply with her instructions. After making sure that he is a functioning man, she waited for a year for his hair to grow back and orders him into Ooku to serve the Shogun (who everyone thinks is gay because there are not any women in the Ooku). The remaining young monk leave priesthood and follows him. There he learns the horrible truth and has to deal with the bitchy male concubines who are threatened by and jealous of him and all the warriors, bodyguards, servants around treating him with contempt thinking that he is Shogun's boy toy.
The worst of all, he will never be able to leave Ooku alive.

Well unlike his sidekick, Arikoto is truly pieous and follows his Buddhist training to overcome the obstacles. He is not a warrior but he is very intelligent, kind and gentle (can you tell I'm already falling for him). The female Shogun (I will call her Chie from now on since she is not a real Shogun) doesn't have a chance. Because unlike many of his gender, he is even more beautiful inside. He understands her sufferings (she was raped, she had a girl but the baby died, she has to have sex with those idiots and act like a man all the time and she is just 17 years old) and tries to get her to think and act good.
Kasuga is totally with him for now. It looks like as if this is exactly what she has intented.
At the end of third episode, Chie decided that her concubines and bodyguard should be dressed as women and dance for her. Three of them (the remaining two concubines and the bodyguard) do and she laughs until tears fall from her eyes but her mood turns sour and she dismisses them all. Right at this point Arikoto (called O Man by Chie) enters with the female garbs he has been given still in the box. He unties Chie's male topnot and lets her hair fall down, puts the female robe around her shoulders and says "I think this will look better on Shogun than on me". Well I was crying at this point since we hear his thoughts in voiceover. Arikoto's purpose in life was to ease people's sufferings. And now that he is forced to be in this hell hole he should quite being so selfimportant and ease the suffering of the person in front of her. He becomes aware of his mistake in thinking himself important and returns to his former humble self.

The actor Sakai Masoto is really good and I love the character.

At least it doesn't look like I'll drop this halfway.

* I'll refer this show as Ooku from now on.

Celebrity Sweetheart Eps. 14

Well last night I was not feeling well. I couldn't completely rest on weekend so I guess I was not sufficiently charged. A slight headache and a feeling of powerlessness. So I have decided not to waste these and watch Celebrity Sweetheart and I think I'm going to take a break from this show. It is just too dull. The acting is good but the conflicts are seriously stupid and the story is streched so thin that it is almost going to tear. I can't believe they extended this to 20 episodes.

I'm thinking of starting a Japanese drama but shall I go with AU where men are scarce and women have all the power or the man who cannot get married. From the synopsis, I feel sympathetic to the second one since I don't want to get married either (and since I'm past 40 now no one is trying to make me :) )

Meanwhile Tender is the Night is going great. Fitzgerald is a genius writer.

Celebrity Sweetheart Eps.13, Tender is the Night, Borgen Eps. 6

Well this weekend I have socialised so I was only able to watch first 6 episodes of Borgen that I have recorded and I liked it very very much. There is something about these Danish dramas that is new and shiny and after Forbrydelsen, Borgen is a nice change. This is a political drama where a middle ground (leaning towards left) party suprisingly wins the election and has to form a coalition and it is all political intrigue and suprisingly romantic. The Prime Minister's Spin Doctor is in love with a political reporter, PM has a great marriage and a wonderful husband but her work interferes with their sex life and so on. This one is not dark as Forbrydelsen and I welcome the lighter tone.

Celebrity Sweetheart turned out to be a bad purchase and I can't even muster the energy to finish it right now. Especially since my goodies arrived today. Two Japanese dramas and I'm very eager to check out one right away.

After some deliberation on what to read, I have decided on Tender is the Night by S.Fitzgerald and he is marvellous. Simply marvellous.

Celebrity Sweetheart Eps.5-6

Well I liked these two episodes much better than the first ones. We do not have the magical cinematography anymore but we have the cute OTP interaction, adequately executed UST and I love the rooftop room filled with books.

Well it didn't take long to reality to start to interfere with our OTP though. His girlfriend surprised him with a visit, she has suitors etc. I hope that this show will keep the cute OTP in the front like this otherwise it may turn out to be boring. I do not like female lead character in this (nothing to do with the actor since I loved her in Winter Sonata) but not only I love Yoo Ji Tae (who is like a male model but clearly the best actor among the cast) and I like the male lead and understand him better.

Meanwhile in line with "Star" theme, Sinemam ve Ben was really very interesting but now I'm at the section where she lists the awards etc. which kind of bores me but I expect this will change in the next chapter where we will have a glimpse at her private life.

Celebrity Sweetheart Eps.4

Well last night I have managed to finish one more episode of Celebrity Sweetheart, I say managed because it was kind of an ordeal. But I don't want to give it up firstly because it looks so good. The cinematography is among the best I have seen. If only the script would be up par. Alas... Maybe I'll dump it if my new goodies arrive.

Meanwhile I'm totally enjoying Sinemam ve Ben. I love Türkan Şoray and even though the book is probably ghost written (in Celebrity Sweetheart the male lead ghost writes for the female lead, a cinema star) and the prose is not that good. And of course it is very sugar coated but it mentions the old films I know and like, there are great photographs and explanations of how things were in the 60s and 70s of Turkish cinema. Good times for me.

Chronicles of Narnia (including The Silver Chair and The Last Stand)- End, Celebrity Sweetheart Eps.III, Sinemam ve Ben

Ok first things first, I have finished Chronicles of Narnia and loved them all to the last drop. It ended beautifully too.

Following my usual reading pattern, to have totally unrelated book Sinemam ve Ben (lit. translation "My Cinema and I") I have started reading the memoirs of Türkan Şoray (who is one of the biggest stars of Turkish Cinema and the most favorite of mine. It is going well so far.

Celebrity Sweetheart interestingly enough is a love story between a superstar and a ghost writer who is hired (reluctantly and only accepted due to money problems) to write her travel memoirs. Well it is a bit dull to be honest and I don't really care for the leads, I love Yoo Ji Tae but he is just not suited to dramas, he acts very well but somehow differently. And everything happens awkwardly, there is not a good foothold to justify what it happening on screen. I would have loved this to be another Notting Hill but alas. On the other hand I'm so starved for romance that I ate up the first three episodes last night.

The Horse and His Boy - End, Prince Caspian - End, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Forbrydelsen III - End, House At The End of The Street, The Dark Knight Rises, A Few Good Men

Well Chronicles of Narnia continue to be great and currently reading The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and loving it. I didn't like Prince Caspian that much and The Horse and His Boy is my fave so far.

As for films and TV series, the weekend was fruitful (we are having cold, windy and rainy days)

House at The End of The Street - well I didn't see the twist coming and enjoyed it a lot.

The Dark Knight Rises - I liked this one a lot the first time I watched it and liked it even better the second time.

A Few Good Men - it has been so long since I watch it that it was like watching something new. I liked it but I guess the whole idea (and Tom Cruise) were better than the actual screenplay. 

Forbrydelsen III - I didn't see the ending coming, at all. Of course when you watch all the three seasons one after the other, you see the patterns - honest politician with good intention succumbing to temptation at the very end (when he is out of the danger), husband and wife making up but dark times are ahead of them, killer being accused first then get off scott free due to a fake alibi... But I would never guess that Sarah would murder the killer as soon as she understood that he will get away with it. Maybe it was the father saying that justice is the only thing he could do for his daughter now and Sarah of course emphatised with that since her son kept accusing her of not being there all through his childhood. Maybe because she promised that the killer will get what he deserved and her promise is gold... For whatever reason, just when she had a grandaughter, just when she reunited with her ex from school (and he is a Secret Service agent so he knows the job, and he is a bit like Sarah, not letting a case go) who left his wife and kids to be with her, who genuinely loves her and whom she loves right back. She just left all these and murdered the killer. In cold blood, a bullet in the head... I'm still very much under the influence of that final decision.

Meanwhile Scandal is back and Grey's Anatomy is still good as gold.

The Magician'd Nephew - End, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - End, The Horse and His Boy

Ok nights are spent reading Chronicles of Narnia, and I'm loving these books and keep wishing that I have read them as child, however as with all good prose I'm thoroughly enjoying them as an adult too. Now I have started The Horse and His Boy which is just as gripping as the first two.

Meanwhile I'm thinking of finishing Gangs of Wasseypur I. This was an impulse buy made only based on a few good comments in the Bollywhat forum. I was able to finish the first half of the first film but do not want to return to it since Mr.Kashyap is not a director to my own heart. At least in Dev D. there was a sense of style but here it is dull camera, dull visuals, great actors trying to bring the tired screenplay into life. This is not good storytelling. Anyhow, I don't have to finish it but I don't have urgent urges (heh) to watch something else and I'm hopeful for Gangs of Wasseypur II where Nawazuddin Siddiqui is the lead (I have nothing against Manoj Bajpai, he is a good actor but nowhere as charismatic as Mr.Siddiqui).

Pembe Tütülü Amiral - End, The Magician's Nephew

Pembe Tütülü Amiral was a nice ride and ended on that note. I liked it.

A colleague lend me his Chronicles of Narnia written by C.S Lewis books box set so I have started with the first book

The Magician's Nephew and now I understand why everyone likes these. They are well written, the story is interesting and I liked the heroes a lot. They are children's literature but of the type that will work for adults too. And they are working very nicely for me so far.

It seems that I have not been watching stuff but there is always something to do. On Monday there was a Turkish comedy show my sister recommended and we had a good time watching it. Tuesday was a work dinner and I got home at about quarter to eleven p.m. Yesterday was my mother's birthday and maybe today I'll be able to finish Gangs of Wasseypur.

When We Were Orphans - End, Pembe Tütülü Amiral

When We Were Orphans, structurally, did not turn out to be like The Unconsoled. And I loved it more for it. I do like a bit of surreal but not all.

Anyway I have started to read Pembe Tütülü Amiral (lit.translation Admiral in Pink Tutu) written by Mehmet Murat Somer, and as usual with this writer's novels I'm loving it. This time we don't have our transvestie detective and we know what happens right from the start but the novel is more about how the dynamics of an investigation of a death of an admiral works in Turkey. There is the army vs. prosecutor/police, press and responsibility to provide news vs. media boss and business connections, meanwhile how a lot of people spend all their lives in the closet continue to do what they want to do in secret. All written in a light prose that makes you drift along as the events unfold. Well he is not Kazuo Ishiguro but Mr.Somer entertains nevertheless.

Men in Black III, Game of Thrones Season 2, Forbrydelsen III Episode 6

Men in Black III I was not expecting much from it but enjoyed it a lot. There were even tears.

Game of Thrones Season 2 This was a good ride. A decent adaptation and I like the actors. Even though the actor playing Tyrion is decent looking and they gave him a charismatic bias cut in the face. Well in the book Tyrion is ugly and the cut chooped half of his nose off. So he looked hideous. But I applaud whoever cast Brianne. Wow. And I liked Theon's sister and Ygrid too. Also in the book I didn't like Stannis and found him boring but in the series, the actor really makes him a more entertaining character.

Forbrydelsen III - Well I have watched 5 more episodes and this is already a lot better than season II. The mystery is more interesting, the life of a child is at stake and Sarah is trying to connect with his son but so far to no avail. She also slept with her ex (in Uni) despite knowing he is married with kids.

 Meanwhile When We Were Orphans is now so similar to The Unconsoled that I'm kind of freaking out.