Denmark must be a heavily paternalistic society. How else do we explain that Danish female lead characters are (seemingly) totally helpless without a male character correcting their mistakes?
In the first episode of the US version, after the psychiatrist essentially tortures the lead character, she gets out of the torture box and does nothing. At least in the Danish version, the female lead punches the psychiatrist in the face. THAT was a much more authentic response to such atrocious behavior.
Nevertheless, in the latter half of the first episode the Danish lead fails to monitor who she lets in her front door. And that begets a "deus ex machina" ending with the male psychiatrist coming to her rescue. THEN the writers finish with a feeble arrest that even Barney Fife would have handled better, which leads to what the writers obviously wanted: the lead character killing the suspect in a justifiable homicide.
That tortured ending was SO staged, and the lead character was so pitifully weak, I found myself rooting for the psychopath. Really, I cannot think of a television series more insulting to strong women, than "Those Who Kill."
So while the Danish version is WAY better than the US version, THEY BOTH SUCK.
In the first episode of the US version, after the psychiatrist essentially tortures the lead character, she gets out of the torture box and does nothing. At least in the Danish version, the female lead punches the psychiatrist in the face. THAT was a much more authentic response to such atrocious behavior.
Nevertheless, in the latter half of the first episode the Danish lead fails to monitor who she lets in her front door. And that begets a "deus ex machina" ending with the male psychiatrist coming to her rescue. THEN the writers finish with a feeble arrest that even Barney Fife would have handled better, which leads to what the writers obviously wanted: the lead character killing the suspect in a justifiable homicide.
That tortured ending was SO staged, and the lead character was so pitifully weak, I found myself rooting for the psychopath. Really, I cannot think of a television series more insulting to strong women, than "Those Who Kill."
So while the Danish version is WAY better than the US version, THEY BOTH SUCK.