FRUITLESSLY, I've railed against the unnecessary, frankly worrying sadism displayed in popular Scandinavian crime dramas.
FRUITLESSLY, I've railed against the unnecessary, frankly worrying sadism displayed in popular Scandinavian crime dramas.
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by Robert McNeil
The violence against women, in particular, is appalling and should be enough for writers of the likes of Denmark's Those Who Kill to be put under police surveillance.
A precedent for this sort of show was probably Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, with its famous stabbing-in-the-shower scene, though that was genteel and decorous compared to the chainsaw-wielding madness we get now. Then again Psycho was a horror film and not a police procedural, so we can't say we weren't warned. Or at least we thought it was a horror film. Now we're told it was a comedy.
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In praise of - funny psycho.
FRUITLESSLY, I've railed against the unnecessary, frankly worrying sadism displayed in popular Scandinavian crime dramas.
The violence against women, in particular, is appalling and should be enough for writers of the likes of Denmark's Those Who Kill to be put under police surveillance.
A precedent for this sort of show was probably Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, with its famous stabbing-in-the-shower scene, though that was genteel and decorous compared to the chainsaw-wielding madness we get now. Then again Psycho was a horror film and not a police procedural, so we can't say we weren't warned. Or at least we thought it was a horror film. Now we're told it was a comedy.
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