{"id":7908,"date":"2013-03-26T03:01:59","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T07:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/?p=3889"},"modified":"2013-03-26T03:01:59","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T07:01:59","slug":"denmarks-borgen-finally-arrives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=7908","title":{"rendered":"Denmark’s Borgen Finally Arrives"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The ongoing release of Sweden\u2019s epic Wallander<\/strong> series is further proof that North America is now a major market for Nordic \/ Scandinavian tales about politics, policing, corruption, and ordinary lives turned upside down.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the first signal was the success of Stieg Larsson\u2019s Girl with the Dragon Tattoo<\/strong> novels, followed by the Swedish film versions, and the U.S. remake. In between the publication and release of Larsson\u2019s stories was the BBC adaptation of Henning Makell\u2019s Wallander<\/strong> tales starring Kenneth Branagh, which subsequently resulted in an ongoing wave of DVD releases featuring the original Swedish series.<\/p>\n

The meteoric success of Denmark\u2019s The Killing \/ Forbrydelsen<\/a><\/strong> [M<\/a>] convinced U.S. cable network AMC to produce an English language remake, but while that show was in stasis after a poorly received second season, the Brits were enjoying the original series on DVD and Blu-ray.<\/p>\n

The success of the original series’ third season \u00a0perhaps convinced AMC to restart the American version, while Sweden and Denmark exploited their cultural differences and physical proximity with The Bridge <\/strong>\/ Broen<\/strong>, in which police from both countries must work together when a body is found on a bridge right on the border \u2013 a concept seen previously, er, in the Ontario \/ Quebec buddy cop action comedy Bon Cop, Bad Cop<\/a> <\/strong>(2006).<\/p>\n

If Denmark\u2019s The Killing<\/strong> shares a mood and stylistic connection to the equally grim and nihilistic Canadian series Durham County<\/a><\/strong> [M<\/a>], then Borgen<\/strong> should provoke further discussion on whether we in Canuckle-land have more in common with the north European country that sits close to bigger and more economically and politically influential neighbours like ourselves.<\/p>\n

Newly released in North America on DVD\u00a0by Mhz Networks, the review of Borgen: Season 1<\/a><\/strong> [M<\/a>] is now up, and soon I\u2019ll have a review of the second season, although coming this weekend is a review of the third (and likely final) season of Denmark’s The Killing<\/strong> (which, quick frankly, kicks ass).<\/p>\n

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Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor
\nKQEK.com <\/strong>( Main Site<\/a> \/ Mobile Site<\/a> )<\/p>\n

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After enjoying exposure on TV and home video throughout Europe, Season 1 of Denmark’s next great TV series – Borgen – finally arrives on home video, via Mhz Networks. The review’s up, but take a peek at the Editor’s Blog for some fawning blather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[1941],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-23y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}