Smartorhypo
Highly Overrated But Still Good
Pacionsbo
Absolutely Fantastic
Zandra
The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
robertemerald
I was very pleasantly surprised when I watched this. I was expecting a Swedish crime drama like The Killing, but got so much more. This is a type of science fiction and I love science fiction. In some ways it resembles Pan's Labyrinth (from Spain I think), and if you love Earth Spirit Mythology then this show will please you. It has plenty of characters up to no good, for noble or selfish reasons, is full of surprises that eventually make sense and, though not big on special effects, what is needed is done well. There are tense moments and a beautiful tension throughout that keep the viewer interested. The story is sufficiently plausible to keep this work at an A-plus rather than a B-movie standard. The photography and place is very beautiful and creates atmosphere. This is a work that has done a lot with very little. Other reviewers have called this clever and they are very correct. The acting is easily good enough for mono speakers like me to forget the subtitles. I loved it.
robert downing
Just when you thought Nordic Noir had peaked along comes Jordskott - very dark and very much of its location and the Swedes do it best! Anyone who is vaguely familiar with folk tales (from pretty much anywhere in the world) will appreciate the brooding threat, the universal fears that permeate the early episodes. But this is no outlandish 'TrollHunter', this is a full blown 'who dun it' with the supra / supernatural an integral part. Having watched the first half of the first series, for me, it plays as a cross between The Killing, Fargo and Twin Peak (series 1 obviously). I don't like particularly enjoy 'supernatural' films and I don't have any belief in spiritual worlds but I appreciate the folk lore created by of cultures to explain their natural world. And, this is where Jordskott fits.The production slowly seduces the unbeliever into a realm where you not only accept the conceits you end an episode wanting more. Level headed I may be but Jordskott has made me think twice about my impending visit to the Swedish interior. This is very much box set binge materials but I must control the urge to splurge. Watch - believe - enjoy.
Ciro Alves
This series feels like a child wrote it while playing "Thieves". Story holes everywhere, continuation mess ups and bad acting. I'm used to great series by Swedish writers, this one is not one of them. Save yourself some time and don't watch this.The series had great potential considering all the mystical and somewhat paranormal background it's based on but the writing just didn't cut it. Nor did the cast for that matter. I was hoping for something in the quality of the Millennium trilogy but this is not one of the series that can even dream to reach such heights. I hope there's someone that can take this concept and re-write it in a way that makes it possible to watch without laughing all the way through it. Maybe that's the thing, this is a comedy and I didn't understand that.
pinewizer371
I had very high expectations on this show as I was really intrigued by the synopsis and its potentially nail-biting mystery. A woman who's daughter inexplicably vanishes in the woods never to be found and then 7 years later a boy goes missing under the same circumstances in the same woods? Come on! It could be one hell of an interesting story!But as so many times before regarding Swedish television shows it seems like disappointment is once again looking my way.First of all the script has some very hard to disregard types of holes. For example the female main character is a cop...but keeps asking people for the address of a man who's name she knows. Has she been living under a rock for the past 20-30 years? Not knowing how easy it is nowadays to just go online and look somebody up? Nobody taught her this during her police-training?Another thing, during the first episode the same character crashes her car trying to avoid hitting a person that suddenly shows up in the middle of the road. It turns out this person is a young girl in a state of chock and can't respond to her surroundings. Now, the community is focused on finding a missing boy, and the local cops are aware of the main characters belief that there might be a link between the unsolved case of her own missing daughter and the recently vanished boy... But not a single cop in the first episode thinks it's worth while to take a little look in the surrounding woods where this girl was discovered by the main character? Not even a little glance? Na, it's just not worth it I guess...I admit, the main character takes a little look and sure enough she stumbles upon something interesting! Who would have thought! Not the local cops or anyone els I guess...You know when I watch a really good police show... I don't feel smarter then the cops. The mystery is as mysterious to me as it is to the characters in the show. (True Detective is a great example of this)In this show not only do I feel smarter than the cops, I laugh at their stupidity.In another scene the main characters daughter shows up in a dream sequence, I guess, and asks her mother why she gave up looking for her and I cringed during the entire scene. It just seemed so unnecessary, almost like the creators are begging the audience to find them creative and imaginative. Everything about that scene was forced and repetitive. We already know the main character is suffering, we know she feels guilty for not finding her daughter and solving the case. If they really wanted to push that point they could have done it in another way that actually would have been creative instead of just slow and boring.But Swedish television shows seems to love those to ingredients, slow and boring.This show has hyped itself as a mysterious one, but if you kind of know what is going on after the very first episode...is it really that mysterious? I say this, there is something very wrong with Swedish television shows and movies, I have a strong feeling they could not only be so much better but that something in the very fabric or infrastructure of Swedish creative storytelling and movie-making is hindering it, always keeping it slow, boring, and predictable.
