First memory I have of this show, is my father angrily walking away from the living room uttering "what the hell does this have to do with a murder case!?". Almost 20 years after it's initial run, I've finally decided to go through this title.
Rejseholdet has a nostalgic place for me. I can't entirely explain why, but I have vivid memories of watching some reruns as I grew up. I'm going to have to agree with my father's summary though - a lot of episodes just put too much attention on family drama, regarding some of the reoccurring characters.
In each episode, we are introduced to a new setting, a murder has taken place and its up to our main cast to cooperate with the local police station, in order to solve the case. The cases are based on actual real-life murder cases and that could make up for an interesting show, but throughout the entire show, there are some problems with the writing.
We have our main cast go through the death of family members, miscarriages, cheating partners and all sorts of things that it's just tiresome to watch and you ask yourself why the writers thought anyone would want to watch this?
There are a lot of cases where Mads Mikkelsen and Lars Bom are just randomly walking nearby some suspects so they can get an action-sequence where they fight with the bad guys. Whenever the show says that there are a team of 30 cops watching some criminals, you know that Mads Mikkelsen will risk his life and run over to handle everything solo, while none of aforementioned 30 cops step in, all so we can get some tension. Well at least Mikkelsen's character is working on the case, though he should probably have been fired a long time ago. Lars Bom? He's unit one's driver and a fictional soccer player meaning the entire country knows who he is, so of course he helps solving crimes and do undercover work for the police.
Also, Lars Brygmann's character starts off as a talented detective who is really good at observing crime-scenes to deduce what took place. But at some point the writers just decides that he's a psychic, so now he just have random visions that show him where important information is planted.
All these things makes it increasingly hard to take the show seriously, you just lose your suspension of disbelief. But there are also positive things, when it stays focused on the crime stuff it's usually okay. Sometimes it's super obvious who the murderer is, sometimes you get a red herring and sometimes the supposed red herring turns out to have been the actual murderer all along. You get some great performances, both from the main-cast but also from guest-stars. In season 3 you get one of Nicolas Bros most praised performances, but among other guest stars is: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Lars Mikkelsen, Thure Lindhart, Ole Thestrup and many more.
I'm giving this show a mediocre rating. Initially I was willing to give the show a higher rating. Even though the problems are present throughout the entire series, I think things get worse throughout the series, especially the 2 season 4 episodes are extremely ridiculous. I read a review here saying the show was realism over action. I couldn't disagree more, this show is drama and action over realism.
Rejseholdet has a nostalgic place for me. I can't entirely explain why, but I have vivid memories of watching some reruns as I grew up. I'm going to have to agree with my father's summary though - a lot of episodes just put too much attention on family drama, regarding some of the reoccurring characters.
In each episode, we are introduced to a new setting, a murder has taken place and its up to our main cast to cooperate with the local police station, in order to solve the case. The cases are based on actual real-life murder cases and that could make up for an interesting show, but throughout the entire show, there are some problems with the writing.
We have our main cast go through the death of family members, miscarriages, cheating partners and all sorts of things that it's just tiresome to watch and you ask yourself why the writers thought anyone would want to watch this?
There are a lot of cases where Mads Mikkelsen and Lars Bom are just randomly walking nearby some suspects so they can get an action-sequence where they fight with the bad guys. Whenever the show says that there are a team of 30 cops watching some criminals, you know that Mads Mikkelsen will risk his life and run over to handle everything solo, while none of aforementioned 30 cops step in, all so we can get some tension. Well at least Mikkelsen's character is working on the case, though he should probably have been fired a long time ago. Lars Bom? He's unit one's driver and a fictional soccer player meaning the entire country knows who he is, so of course he helps solving crimes and do undercover work for the police.
Also, Lars Brygmann's character starts off as a talented detective who is really good at observing crime-scenes to deduce what took place. But at some point the writers just decides that he's a psychic, so now he just have random visions that show him where important information is planted.
All these things makes it increasingly hard to take the show seriously, you just lose your suspension of disbelief. But there are also positive things, when it stays focused on the crime stuff it's usually okay. Sometimes it's super obvious who the murderer is, sometimes you get a red herring and sometimes the supposed red herring turns out to have been the actual murderer all along. You get some great performances, both from the main-cast but also from guest-stars. In season 3 you get one of Nicolas Bros most praised performances, but among other guest stars is: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Lars Mikkelsen, Thure Lindhart, Ole Thestrup and many more.
I'm giving this show a mediocre rating. Initially I was willing to give the show a higher rating. Even though the problems are present throughout the entire series, I think things get worse throughout the series, especially the 2 season 4 episodes are extremely ridiculous. I read a review here saying the show was realism over action. I couldn't disagree more, this show is drama and action over realism.