Jesus, did the production team for Detective Hole live in my walls for the last ten years? Is someone watching me now? Tobias Santelmann (+ the rest of the cast) scored by Nick Cave/Warren Ellis???? I am once again blessed by the Norwegian Television Gods 🙏🏻
Oh WILD, they cast Ellen Helinder in the first episode. After what happened to her character in Exit, I need a second to process that.
I think the best part of this show is that there is a small portion of people that will watch it because they think Joel Kinnaman is hot, only to find his character is a PPE wrapped *freak*
- Fever Ray to a Santelmann character having a crisis will always be a 10 out of 10, every time
- I wish TV shows would stop trying to make corpses look pretty. Where is the waxy yellow skin! The lividity!
- Anders Danielsen Lie playing an abusive, religious, pseudo-intellectual is INSANE when he usually plays much softer characters, this really is a peak "cast actors against type" show.
If I have one critique of this show it's that Norway does *not* know how to do urban decay - their attempt at trash on the street/graffiti/homeless people is like looking at a rich kid in torn jeans and a dirty t-shirt. The perils of being a functional, stable country!
me: don't be afraid of Simon J Berger in this show, he was just terrifying in that one show, not all the shows to the end of time, go in with an open mind!
Simon J Berger: *absolutely fucking terrifying again*
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I finished the first season of Detective Hole a few days ago, but then I got sick! My non-spoiler review is that I would not ordinarily show up for this kind of story, as it's very trope-y to the point of being outdated and borderline offensive. But the pacing & visuals! And the cast! Øystein Karlsen really knows what he's doing. And I'll show up to anything if it's an A grade actor playing off the best scene partners of their career.
And to think, Santelmann almost didn't get the job because he tested "too nice" at first... even after Exit 👀
📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮