A newspaper journalist revealing fraud in a large multinational company, finds his family involved, ruining his career, family relations, and entangles him in a following mystery. The first season of this series is good although by no mean easy to digest at one go nor is it one of my favourite Nordic series. Still, I would give it a 7 out of 10. The second season, however, tries too hard to replicate the success of the first season. And fails. Terribly.<br/><br/>Things change. Peter turns out to be a womaniser perhaps due to circumstances in his life. Inger Marie is divorced yet again and is in an affair with her colleague. In the first season, I feel that the writer(s) successfully combined mystery and conspiracy into the story line. The second season, on the other hand, consists of pure conspiracy that just doesn't build up my curiosity simply due to the lack of 'mysteriousness' - if that's a word. It feels like they are trying to compress so much into so little that the outcome is all over the place.<br/><br/>A colleague (and an office bully) is killed in his car while leaving the office. The Prime Minister badmouths his minister in a planned video leaking to push the minister further. Then the PM is murdered and his daughter poisoned while meeting Peter. Then waffles happened.<br/><br/>I'm not saying the plot of the second season is ludicrous but it is getting there. They might as well add a natural disaster scene to the story line and it still won't help save the show. The acting is also noticeably more wooden than the first with no strong characters in the lineup.<br/><br/>I have to admit though that this series is very brave in killing its protagonists - Peter's ex-girlfriend in the first season and Mathiesen in the second.<br/><br/>Overall: sorry, it's a flop Newspaper reporter Peter Verås is investigating financial irregularities involving his own brother; who then kills himself. At first it looks as though he did it to avoid the inevitable scandal but as Peter's investigation continues another man kills himself; this time right in front of Peter his last word 'Abraham is both enigmatic and meaningful. Things get unpleasant then positively dangerous for Peter and those helping him as he is first transferred to another part of the paper in an attempt to kill the story than when he keeps investigating the threats start to become real there are powerful people involved and they will do whatever it takes to protect their dark secret.<br/><br/>There have been plenty of Scandinavian dramas on British TV recently and this is one of the darkest yet as even main characters can be killed off late in the series when one has frown to like them and think that anybody who has lasted this long will be okay! Things for Protagonist Peter just seem to get more and more desperate; Jon Øigarden does a fine job in the role the rest of the cast are pretty good too. The story is gripping and kept me interested right to the end as the twists don't end until the final scene.
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