Theatre veteran Krister Henriksson was morosely magnificent as novelist Henning Mankell’s world-weary, opera-loving Swedish police inspector.
The show that invented subtitled Scandi crime on BBC Four. Theatre veteran Krister Henriksson was morosely magnificent as novelist Henning Mankell’s world-weary, opera-loving Swedish police inspector. As he doggedly solves murders on the mean streets of Ystad, we get superior, slow-burning whodunits with an existential edge. The English language remake starring Kenneth Branagh as the hangdog detective was more cinematic, thanks to a much bigger budget, but lacked the bleak brilliance of the original.